Friday, May 22, 2009

Birthday Wishes, Captain Morgan and The DDR Museum

I would first like to say Happy Birthday to our wonderful teacher Ali Moeller. I'm so glad you're on this trip with us because you're so fun and knowledgeable about Germany.

You might think the Captain Morgen and the birthday go together. You guessed wrong this time. Actually, Captain Morgan was the name of our tour boat on The Spree. It was a wonderful and relaxing way to get a different look at a few buildings we already saw and a few new ones. It was even better to take a load off of our feet. :)

We also visited the DDR Museum. The interactive museum was a hands on informative way to learn about East Germany. It provided information about everything from their cars to nude beaches, to music and overall general life for the East. The tour guide really surprised me today when she told us about how the Berlin Wall was set up. I had this idea in my head that it was just a wall but in fact, even if you had gotten over the wall to East Berlin there was still yet a death zone that you had to pass. The death zone consisted of two more fences so it was extremely hard to cross. If you did you could have been shot. It's still mind boggling that this all happened not that long ago. This whole experience still doesn't seem real to me. It's such an amazing experience.

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