Berlin Day 1

Today we started out very early... well 9:30 which is early for me, especially with what we had to do all day.  My poor roomie was sick though so I had to go get her some medicine and had like 15 minutes to eat breakfast.  She stayed at the hotel.  We went first to the Jewish Museum, which was by far the best museum that we had been to.  It was so awesome, we could actually touch things and there were so many fantastic things to see anyway.  Then we met up with our tour guide again and he showed us some cool things.  In particular, he showed us a factory where there was a man who hired many blind and sometimes deaf Jewish peoples who would have otherwise been taken to extermination camps and killed instantly.  It turns out he saved many people and he was able to go to the camps and get people out because he had influence.  We then went to the Pergamon Museum where they have several greek and middle eastern artifacts.  We saw the Gates of Babylon which were so beautiful and made out of blue tile.  Anywho, we are now watching the movie, The Lives of Others.  I am trying to hold down the curtains so that the light doesn't shine through into the room but it's very very windy.  We have to have the windows open because there is NO air conditioning .  Ah oh well.  We have a very full day tomorrow... again!  We are going to the German Resistance Museum, Checkpoint Charlie, and some other museum that I can't remember what it is because I'm so damn tired from today's events.  Until next time...