Week on faster than the BVG!

We are now the picking up on the history part of. the trip is starting to push forward. Monday we had our beginning history lecture for the German History. From the looks of Germany now you couldn't tell that an empire held this land. Not much is left after WWII, for example on Monday we went to a rebuilt concert hall. Sadly it looks fake on the inside due the bombing runs during WWII. I still believed it to be interesting to hear the history behind. Interesting enough was the two churches beside it. One is German, and the other is French, both look identical. Just a little imaginative view. At the end of the day we did see a very interesting modern addition to the city. Imagine a mall in America. Imagine a supper market, with the finest cheeses, meats, wine, etc. Now imagine them together. It's amazing how this city has become so modernized after the wall fell. However, for an history major, Tuesday was the best. We went to Potsdam, and right off the bat you could tell that Berlin wasn't all of Germany. First we went to this massive church, I forget the name, however it was very nice on the eyes. It was still being renovated even all these years after the war. This is due to the communist occupation of eastern Germany. It was until the wall fell that people were able to begin to help restore it. It was damaged during WWII and on display on the inside you could see the tip of a bomb that fell on the church. It was adorned with statues in concave indentions at the top of the dome of the church. The statues were of the 14 witnesses to Jesus in the Bible. One had it's head missing. I soon found out that it was left this way as reminder of how war can affect history. You couldn't say that the architecture didn't have music in his mind. At one point I could here the choir from a back room practicing. It was really, peaceful. Kind of reminds me of a picturesque dream. We soon began to walk to a local park and in the park was the remnants of an old Soviet art piece. I made the statement that this looked like a place kids played at. Dr. Etheridge replied (for emotional appeal) what better place to remind them. It's sad that is how the Soviets though. After that we broke for lunch. We went down a rode that was like out of a book. It had markets and restaurants up and down it with little shops and kanuks. I went to my first chocolate store. Forget that stuff we get in wrappers this was awesome. After lunch we went to the Sanssouci Palace. Now that was Imperial Europe right there. I loved it. Underneath shade behind the palace we sat and had our history lecture. Apparently it was built at first by the money from the King Fredrick I who believed in spending money on improvements around the country then on himself. However his son messed that up, and did the opposite. Afterwards we took a walk through a wind trail and another long(ggg) walk over the hillside next to a palace that was essentially destroyed by the Soviets after their take over. It was sad that we didn't get to see much because of it's damage but the outside looked extremely classic and well adorned, even though it was considered a vacation home. I loved. Well that's it until today which is Wednesday. I'm a little behind but I'll try to catch up with week two.