Today we went to a couple of Jewish synagogues. They were so amazing. The most interesting was the Pinkas synagogue because it has the names written on the walls of all the Czech Jews that were transported and they have the dates next to the names as well as other family members. Also, they have art/drawings made by Jewish children that depicted what they were going through. Quite moving. Funny thing though, there was an old lady in there who worked there and she kept SHHHing everyone but she had bright red dyed hair and blue glittery eyeshadow... she was fun. We went to the Jewish cemetery and the grave stones were falling all over each other. It was just amazing to see all those tombstones in such a tiny area.
Later on we went to our classroom. It was cool and we had a guest speaker but he only spoke Czech so we had to have our guide sit there and translate for us. That was something very cool. She didn't miss a beat in telling us everything he was saying.
Tomorrow we are touring Prague Castle and then later on we are going to the Jewish Ghetto/city of Terezin or Theresienstadt. Until next time...
4 comments:
how is the food?
I think you would like the food here. It does have more flavor than I thought and they LOVE fish. But they also eat other things besides fish... like other meat and lots of potatos!!! ANd their breakfast food is so freaking good!!!
yummy!
Allison Brooks and I hung out last night, and we looked up the weather in Prague on the Wii. It was like 25 cooler than it was here!
Also, we were trying to figure out the time difference.
The time difference is 6 hours. And the weather is usually around 70ish degrees but the wind is really fantastic!
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