Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Update.

I am currently in Berlin and we are going to Prague today. Yesterday we went to the concentration camp and it definitely was a hard experience to be there. They showed everyone a video before we set foot inside the camp and it hit everyone pretty hard...Most of the group did not want to stay and going inside the camp but we all did. It definitely hit me pretty hard. I did not think that I would have been so emotional, but it left a special place in my heart. It felt very sacred to be there and my mind could not wrap around the fact that I was in the room where hundreds of thousands of people were beaten and then most people perished. We went to the Wall of Sighs and the Stairs of Death. We actually got to walk the stairs and it was a very neat thing to be there because everyone knew what had happened there and so everyone was on there own and no one really talked to each other at all, and if they did it was in whispers. I took quite a lot of pictures so you will be able to see the camp and I will write some things about it so you know a little more about the camp and what took place there. I just cannot believe that that happened and that someone so evil could brainwash people into believing that other people were animals and that is was okay to kill and beat fathers, mothers, and children. That made a HUGE impact in Europe because now most people in Europe are anti-religion which absolutely breaks my heart. I do not know how I would be able to go through each day and not believe in a God. But I know that so many people had family members who were involved in the Holocaust do not believe and I understand why now. Being there opened my eyes a lot and I wonder a lot of the time if I would have been one of those people to help save some people. I hope I would be. I miss you all and I hope everything is going great. There is a cold and sore throat going around the bus which hopefully I will not get (knock on wood). And everything else is going pretty well. I am very excited to still be here but I miss my family! I love you guys so much!

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