Another One

     This was meant to be the second part of my blog post 'An Overview', but due to mysteriously self publishing blogs (probably due to teachers that don't actually hear when you say "It's not ready"and publish it for you) this is a new blog post in itself. So, due my shoddy memory I am going to skip the rest of the events of last week, and fastforward to this one. Monday of this week we went to the Reichstag, which is basically the German Congress. The architechture is way more modern than most of the government buildings in the US. Whereas our buildings have Greek or Roman style architechure , their Reichtag is made of a lot of steel and glass. After that we went to the Museum 'The Story of Berlin', which covered Berlin from the early 13th century until present. That was fun, because all you ever hear about with regards to Germany is the Nazis, and while there was a section on the Nazis, it didn't focus on them. Tuesday was a trip to castle Sanssouci, home of Prussian Emporer Frederick the Great until his death. Frederick was a rather odd emporer, preferring to only have men in his court. He didnt like his wife, and they almost never met.  Instead he had many dogs, which he was (eventually in the 90's) buried next to. Yesterday we visited a monument from a more recent, less talked about part of Germany's history, the Stasi prison Hohenschönhause. After World War 2, the Soviets made camps with the purpose of "deNazification" of Germany. In actuality, these camps were used to imprison anyone who openly opposed communism or political opponents. After a time, the GDR was given control of the prisons, which by then served a new purpose; to imprison those attempting to escape from Eastern Germany. Today we're doing nothing, which sounds boring, but is actually great because we're always busy. Can't believe that we only have one day left to be here. Tomorrow we'll be heading to a refugee camp as well as having our going away party. It's been a great (almost) two weeks and I'm both elated and reluctant to go home. Signing out, Aaron.