Hamburg, Germany

Hello from Hamburg! During our time here, it was mostly spent doing homework and catching up on work, so that's why I haven't been doing this.

But I'll try to summarize what I've been doing.

While in Hamburg, we visited a few churches that were really beautifully decorated. My favorite one has been the St. Michael's church. We got to walk to the top of the building in this church. There were so many stairs...


St. Michael's from outside


Inside the St. Michael church.


Forgot the name of this church, but it was more a gothic medieval style... I think. God, David kill me

On Thursday, I believe, our group went to go see the concentration camp. This is where Anne Frank was at and died, and um... it was a really disturbing and sad to be there. Walking around, you would see these huge mounds and when you walk over you see how many Jewish people were buried there. It would vary anywhere from 500-2,000 people and maybe more. (I didn't look at them all).





Going inside the museum was slightly depressing. They had videos during the time period of the concentration camp and it was really horrifying. They showed you what these people went through, what they looked like when they were dead, how they buried them (they used bulldozers, there were so many dead bodies), and they had interviews with survivors from the camp. I didn't have enough time to look at everything, but boy was I feeling uneasy from it all in the end.

The next three days we have off to experience Easter, German style.