Adventure Time

The last day we had to explore Berlin was honestly the best day we had there. We started the morning by going to Sachsenhausen, one of Germany's concentration camps. Honestly, I was completely unprepared for it. We all had studied the history of these camps and knew what to expect but the horror and reality overwhelmed us once we got there. Its easier to learn about something when it is miles away and there is no way to see it. Standing in one of the "houses" was the worst experience of my life. The cruelty and awareness that human beings could do something so brutal to one another was devastating. It was so different from reading about it. I lasted about half an hour in the camp and could not take anymore. We left the camp in tears and determined to go try to cheer up. 

This was when a few events happened. For starters, I had a long boarding competition with a store manager. The short of that story is that he was more experienced and showed off and I (first time stepping on a long board) ran straight into a rack of clothes. After that we got lost on the train. We got off to try to catch the other train back to where we were trying to go and noticed that there was a market going on outside. We ran out of the station and found booth after booth of handmade German trinkets, a pen full of goats, windmills, carousels, and live music. This was perfect. We became immersed in the market place and some of us might have watched the goats playing for at least a nice half hour. After this we noticed one thing, a biergarten. Or as we say in English, a BEER GARDEN. 

We decided this was where we would have dinner and it was the best decision we had made yet. Inside the waiters and waitresses were dressed up in traditional dress, there was a band performing, people were dancing, and there were tables pushed together where one could order the best dinner they had eaten in a while. Having traveled mainly around Berlin we only experienced the urban life until we stumbled upon this place. At our table we made new friends with other travelers lucky enough to have found this place. All in all it was the perfect ending to our Berlin trip.