Day 6: Thomas went to work and I toured the Jewish Museum. This museum was great – it was huge – it could take an entire day to see it all. I was really impressed with all the different interactive designs they used for the exhibits. Wouldn’t it be fun to be a museum exhibit designer?
There were also some powerful memorials. This one in the photo, called Fallen Leaves was a long echoey hall where you could walk across metal faces. They’re all separate and clink as you step on them, and the silence of the visitors mixed with the echoey clinks is really chilling.
Berlin kind of surprised me. At first, I didn’t like the city. It feels big and busy and dirty, but in the end, I liked that I learned a lot there – about the Cold War, Socialism, Communism, etc. It really just blows my mind that this all happened in such a recent time period – families instantly split apart (for 28 years), living conditions that were hard enough that people risked their lives sneaking across the border… It really made me think about what’s going on right now in other parts of the world – North Korea, Sudan, Afghanistan, etc. I think, especially living in the US, it’s easy to forget about places far away and not realize that the crazy things you hear about are real and now.
Thomas caught up on his photo-a-day for Berlin all in one post – be sure to check it out: Ich Bin Ein Berliner
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