Shopping!

As many of you should know, I LOVE to shop.....

um....

if you thought that then it turns out you don't really know me as well as you think you do. 

:)

Anyway, after the bus ride back (passing the Olympic Stadium) we got dropped off at Potsdamer Platz, in a massive three floor shopping mall. We had to stay in groups of at least three, but the others in my room wanted to shop, and Zoe and I didn't really have much intrest of looking in overpriced clothing stores, so we bent the rules a bit and went off by ourselves. Turns out that we bought more than our friends who wasted their times looking at things they couldn't properly afford! 

I bought Ashlynn a t-shirt and got some chocolate for mommy and daddy. 

Cool Fountain

We went to Starbucks to get hot chocolates - YUM!

Berlin Stop Lights

Berlin has unique pedestrian stop lights. They were started in East Berlin while the wall was up, but the tradition continued and these lights can now be seen all over the city. They are very unique to Berlin and candy, bags, and clothing as well as other merchandise can be bought with these designs on:

STOP

GO

Frescos & Roses

The one room that had been reconstructed to look like it had been was the Jewish room. 

The wash basins...

The Jewish Memorial at the concentration camp. It was situated where the cremating happened. 

Roses were left on one of the exhibit window ledges. 

These were original frescos in the kitchen that prisoners painted. 

Concentration Camp

The next day we took an hour bus drive out of Berlin to go to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. This camp was not majorly used for housing for Jews, but instead was used to house political prisoners and other enemies of Germany. There are no longer any of the 'baracks' where the prisoners would've slept, instead there are beds of stones in the position of where they would've been. 

Arbeit Macht Frei - Work makes you Free

Checkpoint Charlie

The famous Checkpoint Charlie...

The museum at the place wasn't all that good, too much writing and not about what we've studied yet, but it was fun walking around with Zoe. 

The Berlin Wall (II)

And here's some more panels from the East Side Gallery....

AWESOME PHOTO! 

This wall was really cool. It was a bunch of handprints. Someone had drawn their hand and and written  'Emilie' which is the same way that you spell my friend's name. Okay, as scary as that was, the date was the same as the day we were there - Friday 30th, 2012. AND, it was spelt in Danish, which is where Emilie is from. So, basically, someone called the same as my friend and from the same country, came on the same day we were there and wrote their name...pretty freaky!

Group Photo!

The Berlin Wall

Our next stop was about halfway down the remaining Berlin wall, which is 1.3km long and covered in about 106 paintings from different artists all to do with peace and freedom. Here are a few of the paintings that I liked...

The paintings were all on the East Side of the wall, hence the name East Side Gallery.