Berlin

It's Eater Holiday and I'm in Berlin with JoAnne, Hope and Beth! It's been a great two days and we're heading to Warsaw Poland tomorrow. We went on a few tours which were really good and we saw quite a few memorials and places related to Nazi Germany as well as the Soviet occupation of Berlin. I saw the Berlin Wall which was a really cool experience having learned about it in school and understanding how much the history here has completely changed the world. 

It stuck me that this city is like the buds on all the tree right now. The twentieth century has been a long cold winter for Germany and Berlin and now the weather is warmer, the flowers are starting to bloom and the first buds are springing from the ruin of extreme political domination. The brand new modern buildings were striking. Berlin as a city is much older than anything in the United States, yet a majority of the city was leveled during WW2 and the new buildings were built in the modern style. 

I'm quite tired and don't have the energy to keep writing - we've seen most of Berlin in just two days! Tomorrow we catch a lunch time train to Warsaw Poland!