Today began with a short breakfast at 9 am. We then made our way to Alexander-Platz. At Alexander-Platz we boarded a hop-on hop-off tour bus. We made a complete circuit of Berlin, then we started to go again and got off the bus at the DDR (East Germany) museum. The DDR museum was a fantastic learning experience. It had plenty of exhibits that show how the life of an average east german citizen was. They had all sorts of different interactive exhibits that all the students had a good time playing with.
There were many interesting locations on our tour. The Berlin Dome is the largest Protestant church in Germany. The stretch of road that has been named "The Museum Garden" has 5 museums on it that were built between 1830-1930. The Brandenburg Gate was at one point the main entry way into East Germany. Across from the Brandenburg Gate is a wall with many crosses one it. Each cross is for a person who died while trying to escape across the wall into West Germany.
-Kyle Robbins
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