5/15/08 I have absolutely LOVED every aspect of Munich! Its beautiful, friendly, they speak English, they don’t take life too seriously and they have a great love of beer which is evident down every street corner. It is unbelievable to me that this is the city where Hitler formed the Nazi party! We have been talking a lot about how really Hitler just was saying what people needed to hear when their money was completely worthless, their first democratic government was failing them, and they desperately needed a scapegoat. Hitler provided one and offered ideas on how to fix their economy. [View Full Entry]

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5-10-08 Life styles of the Rich and imprisoned… Well, Czech Republic has a lot more first than I thought. For example, they have some of the first lamp posts. In the olden days, people would have to use torches to get around at night, and if you were caught walking around in the dark without one you would go to jail. Well, in order to keep the castle protected and allow the aristocracy around the castle to enjoy life without torches, they built some huge pillars with sculptures around them that had a bunch of torches inside them. That way, people [View Full Entry]

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Today we spent the day at the Jewish Museum which is not one building but rather several synagogues, a cemetery, and another building. I took notes while the tour guide was talking… I found out some pretty interesting stuff! First, in 1215 the pope declared that the Jews were slaves and they should have to wear yellow, the color of treason. This is why Hitler made them wear yellow stars. (He also took the deportation idea from the way the Americans treated the Native Americans, but let’s not get into that.) Also, Christians tended to not like Jews because they were [View Full Entry]

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5/8/08 Ahoy from Praha! I just got into my hotel. Prague even has a different smell to it than the United States. It is weird not knowing how to even try to pronounce the words here. A few interesting things I have seen so far: a dog peeing on the floor of baggage claim, Delta punishes people who bring more than one bag by losing it, the only stores here that are always in English are McDonalds and sex stores, and the coolest architecture ever is here in Prague. It’s weird to think that this was a communist country in my [View Full Entry]

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