Berlin and Prague Trip: Day 2

The next morning we woke up to get on a tram to go to the Stasi Museum located in far East Berlin where…
In the Museum we saw a few different rooms prisoners were placed into. The first was a place nicknamed, “The Submarine” because it was so dark, cold, and damp with no windows like how a submarine would feel like. We then moved to various torture rooms such as the water torcher room and the caged room where you felt like you were treated like an animal. There were also various interrogation rooms where you would be questioned by operative psychologist asking repeatedly, for example, what you did even if you were considered innocent. I could not even imagine how much of this stuff still goes on in various parts of the world. Once we got done I hurried to the tram to leave to go back to the hostel.
After a little rest we met back up for an evening meeting with actual prisoners of the Stasi Imprisonment camp. It was quite interesting to hear how little they did to be interrogated such as the one man saying he was arrested because of a thought of an attempt to escape to West Berlin. He was then sentenced for a year in the Stasi.
When the meeting was over, some of us girls went to eat at an amazing Mexican Restaurant to drink margaritas and eat delicious chips and guacamole. Later we went to meet a few of the guys at a great German beer pub. They had maybe 100 different beers from all over the world. My friend, Liz, and I split a bottle of Kwak and Brigand Hell (spelling could be wrong). Both delicious Belgium beer. To cap the night off we went to Zapatas, a club located down the street. In the bar there was a fire breathing dragon that I actually thought I was going to be caught on fire, but don’t worry I made it home in tact.