The moon in June
Hello and happy June to everyone. Jon, can you believe it's been a month since we graduated? It's crazy!
Like I said before, we're in Munich now, and enjoying Germany very much. Munich has a small-town feel to it, but it's still very much a big city. Colin said it reminds him of Liverpool, and he's right. We've been spending most of our evenings at Marienplatz in the Altstadt, eating ice cream and sightseeing through the churches. Oh, and Frau Reed would be so proud of me, my German is still pretty good! I'm shocked how well it's all coming back to me. I need to get in contact with her so I can tell her.
And can I say how nice it is to be typing on a fairly normal keyboard? The only key that is really out of place is the 'y.' And, as you can see, this sentence was full of y's.
Today we took the train out to Dachau, the concentration camp. I didn't know too much about it before we planned on going there when we came to Munich, but it was the first camp, and was mainly a labor camp. However, over 40,000 people died there, but thankfully, not via mass executions in the gas chamber (there is one there, but it was never used for MASS executions - there is speculation it was used on individuals, though). Much of it is reconstructed today, but it still has parts of the original road the prisoners used to walk into the camp, and the "Arbeit macht frei" gates (meaning "works makes you free"). And there's the crematorium as well.
I would be a liar to say I didn't shed a few tears between the documentary with images of the terrible conditions, the religious memorials, and the experience of walking through the gas chambers and crematorium. In school, you're always taught about the Holocaust and told that you should care, and you DO care. But this really drives it home when you imagine that the room you're standing in was once piled high with dead, malnourished corpses. How terrible.. and I think to myself, this could never happen again, but what about Darfur and Tibet? How long can they go ignored while thousands of innocent people die?
I didn't mean to make this a political crusade. I digress.
Dachau was a great experience though. I definitely think that if we hadn't gone, we'd have been missing something huge from our trip. Although it's not wonderful, that period of time is a big chunk of Germany's history.
Tomorrow we're off to Neuschwanstein Castle in Füssen. After that, Austria and Mozartland: Salzburg!
We miss and love you all!! See you soon!!
Like I said before, we're in Munich now, and enjoying Germany very much. Munich has a small-town feel to it, but it's still very much a big city. Colin said it reminds him of Liverpool, and he's right. We've been spending most of our evenings at Marienplatz in the Altstadt, eating ice cream and sightseeing through the churches. Oh, and Frau Reed would be so proud of me, my German is still pretty good! I'm shocked how well it's all coming back to me. I need to get in contact with her so I can tell her.
And can I say how nice it is to be typing on a fairly normal keyboard? The only key that is really out of place is the 'y.' And, as you can see, this sentence was full of y's.
Today we took the train out to Dachau, the concentration camp. I didn't know too much about it before we planned on going there when we came to Munich, but it was the first camp, and was mainly a labor camp. However, over 40,000 people died there, but thankfully, not via mass executions in the gas chamber (there is one there, but it was never used for MASS executions - there is speculation it was used on individuals, though). Much of it is reconstructed today, but it still has parts of the original road the prisoners used to walk into the camp, and the "Arbeit macht frei" gates (meaning "works makes you free"). And there's the crematorium as well.
I would be a liar to say I didn't shed a few tears between the documentary with images of the terrible conditions, the religious memorials, and the experience of walking through the gas chambers and crematorium. In school, you're always taught about the Holocaust and told that you should care, and you DO care. But this really drives it home when you imagine that the room you're standing in was once piled high with dead, malnourished corpses. How terrible.. and I think to myself, this could never happen again, but what about Darfur and Tibet? How long can they go ignored while thousands of innocent people die?
I didn't mean to make this a political crusade. I digress.
Dachau was a great experience though. I definitely think that if we hadn't gone, we'd have been missing something huge from our trip. Although it's not wonderful, that period of time is a big chunk of Germany's history.
Tomorrow we're off to Neuschwanstein Castle in Füssen. After that, Austria and Mozartland: Salzburg!
We miss and love you all!! See you soon!!
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