Hey, I unfortunately am going to have to do Berlin in a hot rush as I have another trip this weekend to sum up! So sorry for the delay! So March 6th you see I woke up at 1:15 already packed and ready to go. I met Katie in the lobby and we walked down to breakfast together. Yes at 1 am. We met the other 7 people that we were going with to Berlin plus the two chaperones (one our German prof the other an administrator). This trip was organised by the school and we just had to pay extra money for it, but it ended up being worth it. We got on the mini-bus at 2am and it drove us to some London airport that I cant remember which one it was. We were very tired. To be honest we kind of sleep walked through the whole going through the airport and getting on the plane and flying to Berlin and stuff. A lot of the time we actually slept. We got there we somehow managed to get the S-Bahn (which is soo confusing by the way) to our hostel and put all our things in our room. Next step was a two hour walking tour of Berlin in german. Quite funny when the guy initially started talking and we had no idea what he was saying. He was English so he dumbed down the German for us. We saw a bunch of stuff, all of which can be seen on my facebook pretty much. After that we went for lunch as a group, I had sausage which was amazing, no lie. Then Katie, Elizabeth L, Tessa and I went to see a small chunk of the wall that was still standing then decided to explore around. Katie and I got seperated from the other two and decided to just wander around looking for bookstores. After looking in a bunch of touristy shops we came upon an old used book store with all these really old amazing books everywhere. I was in the search for the Grim Brothers Tales in German and found a complete collection for not that much. Katy also found a book on German grammer and a short story. Quite pleased with our purchases we made our way to the hostel where we were to meet the rest of the group for dinner. We made our way to a traditional german mealed resaraunt. Our poor guides aparently havea bad sense of direction as they got uite lost on their way there. We eventually got there and settled down for a meal. I got very trigger happy with the camera and just went crazy taking interesting photos. We tried some German beer and I had something interesting for dinner, though I dont remember what. I had some nice chats with my German prof about stuff and we basically all had a good time stuffing ourselves and chatting. Next step was to bed and sleepify anough for the next day.
Ooo, one thing I forgot about that first day was the fact that Katie and I stopped into a bakery and each bought something we thought looked/sounded Germanie. She got this interesting brown bread and I got this unrecognizable mass of something that looked to be labeled something about a muffin with Vanilla or something. Basically it turned out to be this kind of bread with cookie crummbled all overthe top and glued on/smothered in this vanilla sugar icingie coating. Needless to say it was amazing and it ended up lasting me that day and the next whic hI will talk about in this paragraph. So we woke up on March 7th at a relatively decent hour, had the complimentary breakfast and then made our way to the Berlin Wall with the group. I got a lot of great photos and it was really interesting to see all the graffitti and statements on it. Our next stop was checkpoint Charlie. This is a museum dedicated to the division of Germany after the war. Really really interesting. Especially all the ways that people attempted or succeeded in escaping; like tunnels and parts of cars and suitcases and other strange methods. After this Katie, Elizabeth L, BJ and I made our way walking through Tier Garten to the Worlds Largest Sex Museum. Tier Garten was kinda sad since it was kinda gloomy out, but there were still some interesting pieces of art and monuments to check out. Once we actually got in the vicinity of the museum it took a good ten minutes to figure out where it was. I eventually spotted it and we made our way over. It wasnt that much to go through it so we paid went through. It was really interesting actually. A lot of historical erotic art. A lot of it Japanese, but other forms too. There were also Bad News Bears, which are little clay-made bears doing inappropriate things. I have pictures i will put up eventually. I later on bought a couple key-chain versions because the actual ones were really expensive. The one I use for my door key now is the one with a giant..."sandwich" or at lest thats what most people think at first, until they see this little bag of the same greenish substance next to the bear. Anywho, if you found that vague enough lets to the next part of my tale!
Oh and the other bear will have to be a surprise for when I come home. Hee! So after the sex museum Katie and Elizabeth made their way (walking) to the CharlotteSchloss (castle) and BJ and I made our way by S-Bahn back to the hostel to meet people for another traditional German dinner. We got confused on the way back because there is also the U-Bahn which is different but they appear the same on the map given. We did make it back in time thank god and the group made our way to a local dinner place. We had two seperate tables that were near each other, but I ended up talking to BJ, Abigale (German prof) and the other chaperon (sorry I am having a brain fart on his name). I had traditional German meat balls or whatever and it was ok, but not my favourite. I kinda wish I had had the sausage instead. But it was really good conversation about various things. I had awhole pint of some kind of bear as we were brought a bunch of different kinds to try at the beginning of the meal and told to choose one. The place was very crowded after a while and they only had one person working so after a while of waiting we just calcuated how much we owed ourselves and left the money on the table and departed. I fell asleep quite easily that night.
The last day, the 8th, our first stop was the Reichstag. This is the main government building in Berlin. We got a special tour of the place. The guy who gavethe tour had a very dry sense of humour and it was quite funny to listen to and watch him. We got to see a bunch of main rooms including the gathering room thing where they do all their legislature and stuff. Walking through it felt like I was in some sci-fi movie. It was crazyness futuristic. When Katie and i went to the washroom we walked through these halls that were way to big and clear the be real and had these huge doors open automatically for us but in some weird sci-fi kind of way. Anywho, needless to say the whole experience was quite interesting. Next we went up to the roof, which is well known apparently. The Reichstag is the most visited government building in the world, which I could beleive as it is quite marvolous. We again all went to lunch afterwards and had some good food, I had this milkshake like thing that was very good. Next we all made our way to the DDR museum that was all about life in the DDR before the wall came down. It was soo interesting. All the differences and things they had to do and stuff. Quite cool. Katie and I made our way to the German Market after that. We wandered around and looked at lots of art as well as old historic items and tons and tons of books. Lastly we both grabbed a sausage, that was seriously one of the best sausages I have ever had! Our next task was to meet the rest of the gang for our ride home. We made the S-Bahn to the airport and chatted about books the whole way. We easily got through at the airport and had not too long to wait to get on the plane. We all got a bunch of German chocolate, which I later found very good. I bought a giant Kinder Egg surprise! It was amazing! Anywho I got really loopy on the plane and ended up pretty much knocking myself out with two gravol which kept me steadily asleep all the way back to Bader. There was only the task of going through customs, but that wasnt so bad. We met up with a bunch of people coming back from Barcelona including my room mate. When we got back to Bader Hall they had food for us even though it was 2am, it was really nice of them though. Not bad either.
So that was Berlin in a nutshell, or osterich egg. Oh well, I will sum up last weekend too...lots o drinking. Just jokes, only ones night of drinking but it was epic I would say. We (Kari, Cameron, Amanda, Heather and I) stole a short table thing from somewhere and put it in the middle of Kari's room. We set the laptop up on a chair just beside it and all sat around the table mixing and drinking drinks. We spent the rest of the night chatting and drinking and watching James Bond films. I did not go back to my room until 7:30am as my brilliant plan was to sober up before I went to bed and watch skins season three on kari's laptop. Needless to say I spent pretty much the entire next day almost in bed. But I got better and I am here now! So lots of love to all you readers out there and I will try to do this sooner next week!
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Almost two weeks?
Oh my GOD! Has it really been almost two weeks since my adventure in Paris? Wow. I will start with the weekend we got back and I will just say not too much happened. I dont even really remember at this point. I think I lazed intensely because I was soo glad to be done almost everything and everyone else still had thing due that week. The week following was a typical school week. I had German movie night and we watched this strange film about couples who were going through ruts basically. It was wierd. Lets see, the weekend after that (this past weekend) was more exciting. I was kinda pissy at first because a bunch of friends of mine were going to Mallorca and I couldnt go because I had a field study that weekend, but it ended up being fun and interesting anyway. On the Friday (when they left) it was really nice and warm - a little windy but after a while I was able to take my jacket off. I went for a four hour walk/exploration. I started by heading towards the village but ended up taking this secret looking path that took me through a forest and then out to a feild. I walked through the field and was going to turn back when I thought I might be on private property but I am glad I kept going because I came accross another path through another forest and I just kept following these random pths until I had no idea where I was but had a faint idea of what direction I was heading in. I eventually came to a village and could not for the life of me figure out what it was. There was a sign that had arrows pointing towards herstmonceaux, bexhill, hastings, eastbourne etc, so I literally had no idea! I took another random path instead of following the sign to herstmonceaux on the main road, but it was going in the generally right direction so I figured I'd get there eventually. I had brought my camera, my mp3player and my tripod, so you can guess I took a lot of pictures. i think it was almost 400. What a beautiful and perfect day though!
That night was speant basically looking through the pictures. Oh I also had a sleepover with my roomie Angie. I came downstairs and we through all our blankets and pillows on the floor and got a bunch of candy and chocolate and watched Gossip Girls on her computer. Eventually we both started falling asleep so we went to bed. The next day Angie left early in the morning to go with Kevin (her boyfriend) to Dover and I went to Brighton. My objective was to buy a bathing suit. I went to Bravissimo (the place I got my bras before) and picked out a bunch of things. It came down to the practical and fully flattering bathing suit that covered everything and held me in and would not come off in the water. The other option was a cute bikini thats green with white pokka dots. It pushes em up and covers everything from my nipples to the outsides of the breasts. Everything on the inside is fair game. Hee. Lets just say I giggled and pointed at myself for a good 5 minutes when I first put it on. It is very mean and possibly a size too small, but I tested it out and I dont fall out of it so in the end I said screw practical I am going to have some fun. Plus its comfortable which is a bonus. I then went and took pictures on the beach and the little docks and caught a ride back to Bader where I hung out with myself for the afternoon.
The next day to that (the Sunday) I woke up bright and sunny for my feild study in London. The ride in was not very consequential. When we got to London Jacinta, Sarah K and I all decided to go to Mme Tusauds. Unfortunately when we made it there it turns out it is around £25 to get in. As poor students we didnt really think it worth it for a bunch of wax figures, though it would have been cool. We instead went to Sherlock Holmes house. It was basically an old historical house with a bunch of stuff about Holmes but it was still really cool. There were salt n pepper shakers as holmes and watson and I was so tempted until I saw the price...£22! HOLY POO! No matter, we had a good time then went to find food. We found a traditional Italian restaurant and settled down for a nice meal. We chatted a bunch about random stuff, a lot of Italy and nationality and stuff. I ordered pizza and got traditional italian pizza and afterwards Gilotto which was amazing! We paid and then made our way to the Natural History Museum.
When we got there we had to wait a good half hour so we had a photoshoot where we just took ridiculously silly pictures of eachother and just acted goofy for a while. We were eventually allowed in and we gots to see the Darwin Exhibit. Pretty interesting. Not much to tell other than it was crowded but we got some really cool information. The next thing to do was to go home to the castle. So we loaded onto the bus and made our way back. I have become really good at falling asleep on the coaches. Just tilting your head to the side and falling asleep. I feel like I could fall asleep anywhere now. Not necessarily a good thing! We had dinner when we got back and then went up to bed. This past week not too much has happened. We got academic advising and I now have an idea of what to do and stuff which makes me feel better about life. Everyone is getting stressed out this week because especially this semester no one is in on weekends so there is very little time really to do stuff and this week everyone is getting things back and with the whole academic advising people are finally starting to realise that they have to do work and get their averages up to get into particular programs. Anywho, I am just goingto go with the flow for now. Off to do work. Hope you enjoyed this installment!
That night was speant basically looking through the pictures. Oh I also had a sleepover with my roomie Angie. I came downstairs and we through all our blankets and pillows on the floor and got a bunch of candy and chocolate and watched Gossip Girls on her computer. Eventually we both started falling asleep so we went to bed. The next day Angie left early in the morning to go with Kevin (her boyfriend) to Dover and I went to Brighton. My objective was to buy a bathing suit. I went to Bravissimo (the place I got my bras before) and picked out a bunch of things. It came down to the practical and fully flattering bathing suit that covered everything and held me in and would not come off in the water. The other option was a cute bikini thats green with white pokka dots. It pushes em up and covers everything from my nipples to the outsides of the breasts. Everything on the inside is fair game. Hee. Lets just say I giggled and pointed at myself for a good 5 minutes when I first put it on. It is very mean and possibly a size too small, but I tested it out and I dont fall out of it so in the end I said screw practical I am going to have some fun. Plus its comfortable which is a bonus. I then went and took pictures on the beach and the little docks and caught a ride back to Bader where I hung out with myself for the afternoon.
The next day to that (the Sunday) I woke up bright and sunny for my feild study in London. The ride in was not very consequential. When we got to London Jacinta, Sarah K and I all decided to go to Mme Tusauds. Unfortunately when we made it there it turns out it is around £25 to get in. As poor students we didnt really think it worth it for a bunch of wax figures, though it would have been cool. We instead went to Sherlock Holmes house. It was basically an old historical house with a bunch of stuff about Holmes but it was still really cool. There were salt n pepper shakers as holmes and watson and I was so tempted until I saw the price...£22! HOLY POO! No matter, we had a good time then went to find food. We found a traditional Italian restaurant and settled down for a nice meal. We chatted a bunch about random stuff, a lot of Italy and nationality and stuff. I ordered pizza and got traditional italian pizza and afterwards Gilotto which was amazing! We paid and then made our way to the Natural History Museum.
When we got there we had to wait a good half hour so we had a photoshoot where we just took ridiculously silly pictures of eachother and just acted goofy for a while. We were eventually allowed in and we gots to see the Darwin Exhibit. Pretty interesting. Not much to tell other than it was crowded but we got some really cool information. The next thing to do was to go home to the castle. So we loaded onto the bus and made our way back. I have become really good at falling asleep on the coaches. Just tilting your head to the side and falling asleep. I feel like I could fall asleep anywhere now. Not necessarily a good thing! We had dinner when we got back and then went up to bed. This past week not too much has happened. We got academic advising and I now have an idea of what to do and stuff which makes me feel better about life. Everyone is getting stressed out this week because especially this semester no one is in on weekends so there is very little time really to do stuff and this week everyone is getting things back and with the whole academic advising people are finally starting to realise that they have to do work and get their averages up to get into particular programs. Anywho, I am just goingto go with the flow for now. Off to do work. Hope you enjoyed this installment!
Monday, March 2, 2009
Midterm trip - day four and five
So I am writing this between watching Skins (which is taking a while to load) so if it seems a little choppy I apologize. New season of Skins! Yay! Anywho, I will get to the interesting stuff, like my fourth day (the Thursday) of my midterm break trip. I woke up (as is usually recommended) and got myself all ready to take the coach into London with the rest of the English class. We were to be given a literary tour of Paris that morning by the three english profs. It was quite cold (compared to what it had been the day before) and I got off to a great start when I had my most epic fall of all time. I slipped on a grate (they have it in for me) and went to correct it with the other foot but that one slipped too and I fell on my side. I wasnt injured in any way (its all that milk, I swear) so I just kept going along. We were mostly just walked around Paris a bunch with a couple stops here and there. Some stories about Oscar Wilde and other great literaries. Unfortunately the entire group also had an Art History feild study so we all had to migrate before the tour was over. The profs"luckily the only thing your missing is the Shakespeare & Co." which happens to be a vast Shakespeare store. Thanks guys for saving that for last.
When we got to the Louvre we were told that the tour before us (the art history group before us) was running behind so we would have to wait outside until Daphne (our prof giving the tour) was done and could come out to get us in. This seemed redicuous to most people as it is the Louvre and as much extra time inside as possible would be awsome. So some how someone got us in early giving us about 10 extra minutes to look around. The tour was intersting. We got to see a bunch of the stuff we studied. This includes the Mona Lisa. You have probably heard this before but it is insane trying to get near it. I didnt try. I just wanted to see it, partially so that I could say I've seen it (I mean you cant go to the Louvre without at least glancing at it) and also because it is a famous work of art that deserves a look. I think it is kinda silly that people get sooo worked up over it, I mean right accross from it is the dinner a Cana (I might have the name wrong) and it is huge and beautiful and no one even sees it. It is really sad. It annoys me that people kept telling me not to bother with the Mona Lisa or that it was a disappointment or what ever because it is so small and blahblahblah. I mean it is a huge part of history, it shouldnt be judged based on its size or the amount of attention it receives.
After that we got lead through the outside Gardens to the Place de la concord to meet the busses that were going to take us to Versaille (those that wanted to go). I met Kari walking through the Gardens. I still cant beleive I was only in the Louvre for an hour and a half. The only disappointment for my trip, i would have liked at least another hour or two, I would have done that instead of the literary tour. Anywho,too late now. We stopped for Crepes and I had my first chocolate crepe. It was soo intense!!! Chocolate and crepe everywhere. It was amazing! Anywho we got a good spot on the coach that was to take us to Versaille, so it was a pretty comfy ride. Once we got there we ditched the Art History group (Daphne was going to give a talk in the Gardens because she wasnt allowed to inside) because we only had a couple hours to do the whole thing. Kari, Cameron, Ellie and I all walked around together and let me tell you it was crazy! It was so intense. I mean this thing practically screams excess. Needless to say I loved it and would want to be one of those asswipe aristocrats who lived there. I mean there were entire rooms made of marble or entirely gold leafed or intricately painted. The Gardens were beautiful too, though I would like to go back in spring sometime and see all of the gardens and the little extra things that you have to take trains out to. I loved Marie's room, and I am not a flower person but it was dripping with floral everywhere. It was intense.
Lets see, after that we got the coach back into Paris and back to our hostel. We hung out in our room for about an hour and tried some cheese Katie had gotten that day. At around 7pm a bunch of us got on the coach to go into Paris for our River Saine tour/cruise. I sat with Charlotte and Addy and Charlotte and I chatted about dance and work and teachers and stuff. There was a bit of a hold up on the coach because the SLCs (Student Life Co-ordinators) had gotten word that there was a demonstration going on at the Eiffel tower, right near where we were going to be. We could tell they were freaked out and trying to figure out whether they could actually take us, like whether it would be safe. I dont know if you remember but last year there were some demonstrations in Paris and it got violent and stuff, so it was a tense hour or so when we were being taken in to the city centre. It ended up being ok and aparently the demonstration got taken down really quickly so nothing really happened. Charlotte and I took an enormous amount of pictures while on the cruise and basically just played with our cameras the whole time. Sarah M and Addy were sitting in front of us so we got lots of pictures of them too. After the cruise Amy and I were the only ones that wanted to head back so we made our way back to the hostel. It took us a while to figure out where the station we wanted was, but we got back safe and sound.
The next day (the Friday) I quite comedically woke up in an extraordinarily fowel mood. I peeked out my curtain and Katy looked at me and asked if I was ok because apparently i had the angriest look on my face. I just grumbled and pulled the covers over my head. I appologised to them later, but now that I look back on it it was pretty funny. A bunch of us got some friends to put our bags on the coaches for us as we were heading into Paris early so we could see some things last minute. I headed off on my own for Notre Dame. I found it pretty easily and explored around a bit. I unfortunately didnt have time to go up the tower, but it was still nice to see the place and walk more along the Saine. I also got a cheese crepe. It was death in a wrap basically. The texture was amazing, but not a lot of flavour. I only got a two thirds through it because it was soo cheesey and intense. On the subway I bought some strawberries and when I got to the Place de la Concord I went into a washroom to wash them. So I sat in the park in front of the Louvre and ate strawberries and waited for the time to come that the coaches would be available to get on. I met up with Amy, Katie and Amanda on the busses, luckily we al got seats near the front. It wasnt much of an eventful drive other than they put on some movie adapted by a Steven King novel and Katie refused to tell me the ending!
Our next stop (for all history students) was (sorry I do not remember the name) a German base for experimenting in bambs and rockets and stuff in World War 2. It was build by slaves and is basically this compund made of underground tunnels and stuff. It looks like something from a science fiction film from the outside. It was very strange but very real. Everyone was saying how horrible it was and how bad they felt for the people who were enslaved to build it and stuff, but to be honest by this point I had blockd myself off from the sadness or horror of it all. I mean we had seen soo many bad things that were a part of history and so many "horrors" and stuff and I was not in the mood to be depressed. So I trudged along and tried to learn as much as I could, because at this point I found it hard to be compassionate anymore.
Once back on the coach it was a short ride to the ferry. I hung out mostly with Cameron and Kari while on the boat, we watched it leave the dock from outside, it was very pretty and calming, especially because it was dark by this point. We kept ourselves entertained by looking around the boat and watching the strange refreshments machine do this weird robotic thing to grab and deposit our drinks. It was crazy! The ride wasnt too long thank god and we mostly slept on our way back to the castle. Even though it was really late there was pizza and fruit and juice waiting for us when we got into Bader. I chatted with Angie and Kevin for a bit then passed right out for a nice nights sleep.
Sorry it took so long to get this one out. I will try to stop procrastinating with these!
When we got to the Louvre we were told that the tour before us (the art history group before us) was running behind so we would have to wait outside until Daphne (our prof giving the tour) was done and could come out to get us in. This seemed redicuous to most people as it is the Louvre and as much extra time inside as possible would be awsome. So some how someone got us in early giving us about 10 extra minutes to look around. The tour was intersting. We got to see a bunch of the stuff we studied. This includes the Mona Lisa. You have probably heard this before but it is insane trying to get near it. I didnt try. I just wanted to see it, partially so that I could say I've seen it (I mean you cant go to the Louvre without at least glancing at it) and also because it is a famous work of art that deserves a look. I think it is kinda silly that people get sooo worked up over it, I mean right accross from it is the dinner a Cana (I might have the name wrong) and it is huge and beautiful and no one even sees it. It is really sad. It annoys me that people kept telling me not to bother with the Mona Lisa or that it was a disappointment or what ever because it is so small and blahblahblah. I mean it is a huge part of history, it shouldnt be judged based on its size or the amount of attention it receives.
After that we got lead through the outside Gardens to the Place de la concord to meet the busses that were going to take us to Versaille (those that wanted to go). I met Kari walking through the Gardens. I still cant beleive I was only in the Louvre for an hour and a half. The only disappointment for my trip, i would have liked at least another hour or two, I would have done that instead of the literary tour. Anywho,too late now. We stopped for Crepes and I had my first chocolate crepe. It was soo intense!!! Chocolate and crepe everywhere. It was amazing! Anywho we got a good spot on the coach that was to take us to Versaille, so it was a pretty comfy ride. Once we got there we ditched the Art History group (Daphne was going to give a talk in the Gardens because she wasnt allowed to inside) because we only had a couple hours to do the whole thing. Kari, Cameron, Ellie and I all walked around together and let me tell you it was crazy! It was so intense. I mean this thing practically screams excess. Needless to say I loved it and would want to be one of those asswipe aristocrats who lived there. I mean there were entire rooms made of marble or entirely gold leafed or intricately painted. The Gardens were beautiful too, though I would like to go back in spring sometime and see all of the gardens and the little extra things that you have to take trains out to. I loved Marie's room, and I am not a flower person but it was dripping with floral everywhere. It was intense.
Lets see, after that we got the coach back into Paris and back to our hostel. We hung out in our room for about an hour and tried some cheese Katie had gotten that day. At around 7pm a bunch of us got on the coach to go into Paris for our River Saine tour/cruise. I sat with Charlotte and Addy and Charlotte and I chatted about dance and work and teachers and stuff. There was a bit of a hold up on the coach because the SLCs (Student Life Co-ordinators) had gotten word that there was a demonstration going on at the Eiffel tower, right near where we were going to be. We could tell they were freaked out and trying to figure out whether they could actually take us, like whether it would be safe. I dont know if you remember but last year there were some demonstrations in Paris and it got violent and stuff, so it was a tense hour or so when we were being taken in to the city centre. It ended up being ok and aparently the demonstration got taken down really quickly so nothing really happened. Charlotte and I took an enormous amount of pictures while on the cruise and basically just played with our cameras the whole time. Sarah M and Addy were sitting in front of us so we got lots of pictures of them too. After the cruise Amy and I were the only ones that wanted to head back so we made our way back to the hostel. It took us a while to figure out where the station we wanted was, but we got back safe and sound.
The next day (the Friday) I quite comedically woke up in an extraordinarily fowel mood. I peeked out my curtain and Katy looked at me and asked if I was ok because apparently i had the angriest look on my face. I just grumbled and pulled the covers over my head. I appologised to them later, but now that I look back on it it was pretty funny. A bunch of us got some friends to put our bags on the coaches for us as we were heading into Paris early so we could see some things last minute. I headed off on my own for Notre Dame. I found it pretty easily and explored around a bit. I unfortunately didnt have time to go up the tower, but it was still nice to see the place and walk more along the Saine. I also got a cheese crepe. It was death in a wrap basically. The texture was amazing, but not a lot of flavour. I only got a two thirds through it because it was soo cheesey and intense. On the subway I bought some strawberries and when I got to the Place de la Concord I went into a washroom to wash them. So I sat in the park in front of the Louvre and ate strawberries and waited for the time to come that the coaches would be available to get on. I met up with Amy, Katie and Amanda on the busses, luckily we al got seats near the front. It wasnt much of an eventful drive other than they put on some movie adapted by a Steven King novel and Katie refused to tell me the ending!
Our next stop (for all history students) was (sorry I do not remember the name) a German base for experimenting in bambs and rockets and stuff in World War 2. It was build by slaves and is basically this compund made of underground tunnels and stuff. It looks like something from a science fiction film from the outside. It was very strange but very real. Everyone was saying how horrible it was and how bad they felt for the people who were enslaved to build it and stuff, but to be honest by this point I had blockd myself off from the sadness or horror of it all. I mean we had seen soo many bad things that were a part of history and so many "horrors" and stuff and I was not in the mood to be depressed. So I trudged along and tried to learn as much as I could, because at this point I found it hard to be compassionate anymore.
Once back on the coach it was a short ride to the ferry. I hung out mostly with Cameron and Kari while on the boat, we watched it leave the dock from outside, it was very pretty and calming, especially because it was dark by this point. We kept ourselves entertained by looking around the boat and watching the strange refreshments machine do this weird robotic thing to grab and deposit our drinks. It was crazy! The ride wasnt too long thank god and we mostly slept on our way back to the castle. Even though it was really late there was pizza and fruit and juice waiting for us when we got into Bader. I chatted with Angie and Kevin for a bit then passed right out for a nice nights sleep.
Sorry it took so long to get this one out. I will try to stop procrastinating with these!
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