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Well Munich has been amazing! We've gotten to relax and see the town from the eyes of locals. Our first day here we didn't do much because we were so tired from the overnight train from amsterdam that we just went out to eat and then to a Comedy show. An english speaking comedy show. You see the people we are staying with belong to a community of British/American people that are in living in Germany so they told us about a stand up comedy show that was in town. Then the 5th we went ot the Deutches Museum, spent several hours then and then walked around Munich. There were a lot of festivals and scrimage matches going on around town because of the World Cup so we watched some games and some interesting people. We also saw Marienplatz, the Residenz and Frauenkirche (the big onion shaped domes). We also went to dinner at one of those touristy beergardens - Hofbrauhaus and got sausages and pretzels and sauerkrat (I never now how to spell it :0) ) and a drink called Radler. Radler sounds like it would be repulsive but really it was quite delicious. Its half light beer and half lemon soda/tonic. It tastes exactly like a lemondrop. Tasha suggested we get it and katie and I kinda looked at each other in disgust but still ordered it. The food here is also a lot better than I expected, but even if it wasn't they still have a McDonalds, Burgerking, Pizza Hut, Subway or Haagen-Dazs in every city we've been to (we did stop by Haagen-Dazs just because I was craving the belgium chocolate). Yesterday we went to Dachau - the Work Concenration Camp right outside of Munich. We took a short bus ride and stepped off at the Memorial site. I have to say my stomach did some fliping and flopping just because I knew where I was and knew what had happened there. we got the audio guide and entered through the Iron Gate saying "Arbeit Macht Frei" - which in German means :work will set you free. We saw the entire grounds, the barracks, the roll-call yard, the crematorium (by far the most chilling experience of my life), the "showers", and the dozens of memorial sites and small cathedrals around the grounds. I didn't get nearly as emotionaly as I thought I would because everything was presented in such a factual manner that they almost intended for you to not become a blubbering mess. Silly Germans and their lack of emotion. I also think its so unbelievable that you are actually there that it takes a while to sink in. I only hope that I can never forget all the things that I learned about what went on, it was gruesome. The theme to the entire memorium is "never forget" and they had it writen in all the major languages on a large stone monument. After that we headed back to town, walked around a bit and then spent most of the night on the computer trying to figure out places to stay for the next 3 weeks. We are hoping to see the English Gardens since its a nicer day outside and then head off to Salzburg. We will be roughing it the next couple of days at campsites so I might not be able to update for a few days but I will certainly try my best! Hope everyone at home is doing well! Feel free to email me - marbear@ufl.edu I would love to hear from you! Also I tried uploading photos on this site but it just takes a really long time - so I have a website at yahoo photos http://photos.yahoo.com /marbearxo where you can view my photos (they are uploading as we speak) and also Katie has one with about 3 times the amount of pictures but see has to configure the settings so its viewable to nonusers so I will hopefully get the address to you ASAP.
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