On the third day we met in the lobby to walk over to the German Parliament, the Reichstag. Before our guided tour of the building, our passports were checked as a security checkpoint. Inside we saw beautiful art work, bricks signed by parliament members from 3.5.1945, and how could you forget the glass dome covering the room of where the policy making takes place. I couldn’t believe how real this experience was.
In the afternoon we had free time to do our Berlin Project for our German Class. My friend, Emma, and I went to The Topography of Terror after a few confusing wrong turns. When we walked inside I was disappointed to see that I would be reading wall upon wall about the rise of Hitler’s Nazi party, the key men in the GESTAPO and SS, victims of terror, and then the fall. Most pictures I saw I felt could have found on the Internet, but I still enjoyed reading about the history of it all. Later on a group of us went to the East Side Gallery to see the artwork done by 118 artists right after the fall of the wall in 1989. This was really cool and I advise everyone to go to this.
For the last night in Berlin we went out to celebrate a birthday for a student in our group, ending our night with a good note.
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