berlin

yeah so i went to berlin with school for a week. was a hell of a lot of fun. i really didnt want to come home. i thought when i went it was going to be like most normal capital cities-hectic, busy, full of ignorant people. I was totally wrong. The people seemed really friendly and most spoke english, it wasn't that busy either. The shops were great as well. The only problem was the bus ride there. 23 hours. Well we were all set for midday like we were told and we had said all our goodbyes to the people at school. Then what happens-we get sat out in the rain for 2 hours coz the bus is late. Anyway-not that big a problem-bt it does get tiring wen all our doing is waiting. Went back 2 see my friends again. Finally got on the bus-then we had 2 stop sum twenty minutes down the road in harworth(which is still classed as doncaster) for 40 minutes because the driver had been driving too long ARGH!!!!!! Anyway we got back out on the road and got there ok. Had a few hours sleep, not many though as it isnt exactly comfortable sleeping when you are sat up but we still got there. We got there at 1pm the next day and in the evening we went to the reichstag which is the german government building-it was interesting to walk around it and find out all the history about it at the top of the reichstag there is a sphere of mirrors and a ramp you can walk up to give you a view of berlin....it is an amazing and there are various pics of me posing there lol. Anyway we did various things over the week such as visit the wansee conference and the film museum and jewish museum and they were really interesting as well.
The thing that gave me the reality shock was the concentration camp. I knew when i went that it was going to be depressing but i didnt know how much i was going to take away from it. The conditions those people had to live in and many died in was horrifying. The stories i heard about how these people lived made me think. These people live and worked in these horrific conditions and were malnutritioned and diseased and many died at the end of it all. Many were forced to work in the crematorium and so they didnt spread the word they were killed within weeks of working there. The crematoriums made me sick to the stomach. It made me think about the problems i have. They are nothing compared with what these people had to go through and that i shudnt dwell on the problems i have. I know sometimes i am going to think the problems i have are shit but compared to these people they are nothing.
Anyway the evening activities were really fun and we got a lot of free time to do what we wanted to do. We went bowling which was fun(there was no bumpers which made it quite hard), we went to a french festival which had happend to finish by the time we got there so we hung out doing our own thing for a few hours which was great. We got a whole group foto and also we got a foto of team donaldinho lol. We also went to the imax cinema to see a german film in 3d. Although i dint understand it, it was still fun lol. The best part was the day we went shoppin and the zoo. The zoo was awesome i got loads of pictures-giraffes(yay-there my fave animal lol) and theres even a lego giraffe in berlin as well which i also gt a pic of lol. The shopping was fun as well...i got a berlin bag...i decided not to get any clothes as i was worried they wouldnt fit coz all the changing rooms were always full. and most of them ill probs b able to get in england for cheaper anyway
got back at 10am yesterday but i cudnt sleep and then i got really ill. i slept from half5 last nite until 6am this morning lol. Last day of skool 2day. we had a party in form coz our form tutor was retirin and i went and sat with one of my friends for a while because we were allowed out. I had the confidence to sing at mass and had a laugh with the actions which usually i wudnt do cz im usually sat wi sum1 i dont speak 2. then we went shoppin and kfc for a while was fun.
Had a lot of compliments on my new clothes when i went to berlin. It boosted my confidence a lot and now i feel more confident with my clothes and shopping. Cant wait to see whether i can have that surgery on my eye and then i will be really confident lol.
Anyway long blog 2day
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