Bergen-Belsen, Concentration Camp

Today we went to Bergen-Belsen. It is a Prisoners of War Camp, Concentration Camp and Memorial. We got to learn about the terrible things that people went through at this camp. It was awful. We walked through the grounds of the camp and there were these mounds every where. They were like these hills in the middle of a field. These hills were graves of 1,000's of people. And they weren't separate graves. It was one big hill with sometimes 5,000 people in one hill. There were several of these hills just at first site. There were tomb stones there, but they were just symbolic, they didn't mark the actual grave. Bergen-Belsen is the place where Anne Frank has her tombstone.
After we took a look at the grounds we went inside to a small museum to learn more about personal stories about people. We didn't stay long because it was hard to learn about so many horrible things at once, and we were tight on time. It was sad, but good to know.

After we got home from the museum Valentine's mom, Uschi, invited the three of us over for lunch. We had spaghetti. We go to know Valentine and Max better. They are some funny guys. We jumped on their trampoline, looked at some funny videos on youtube, and went into the city for ice cream. Kaelei had to go home do work on some homework stuff so she skipped out on the ice cream, but Karo came with us. The 5 of us went into the city for ice cream but Lisha left after 20 minutes so she could go to swim practice. Kali decided to stay with the others in the city. Lisha got back home and went with Kaelei to swim practice. We had lots of fun. Lisha might not see the swim team again while she is here so everyone wanted to get some pictures and email addresses. It was cool.
When Kaelei and Lisha got home from practice at 9:45, Kali was still out with friends and had arranged to sleep over at Anna's house.

Heide Park- Wednesday, June 25

Wednesday was SO MUCH FUN! Benny (Quinn's Husband) took us to Heide Park. Heide Park is like Lagoon. It's an amusement park. Well, all 4 of us decided to wear our Germany shirts to the park and we got a lot of different remarks. The things that people said have some explaining behind it. There is a good portion of the population here that are Turkish. (kinda like Mexicans is Utah) Well there was a soccer game for the European Cup tournament. This was the semi-finial game, Germany v Turkey. So with this game being that night we got a lot of cheering for Germany saying that we will win. We also got a lot of bad comments. Sometimes Benny wouldn't translate everything that they were saying... Ha Ha. We were at Heide Park for about 8 hours and by the time we left we were practically dead. While we were there we stoped at one of the souvenir shops and had some fun with the German Apparel.
We took the 45 minute drive home and then we got ready for the Big Soccer Game, Germany v Turkey. Kali went with Anna to Anna's aunts house. She said that it was fun to see how excited people would get during the game. Kaelei went into the city to watch the game with Max and Valentine but came home early and watched the 2nd half of the game of the game at home. Lisha staid at home with Quinn, Tori, Jeffrey, Niklas and Steffen. It was so much fun to watch because it was tied 2-2 with 1.5 minutes left in the game and Germany scored to win then game! IT WAS INTENCE! On Thursday there will be a game Russia v Spain. Who ever wins the game on Thursday will play against Germany on Sunday.
GO DEUTSCHLAND!

Everyone watching the BIG GAME at Quinn's house:

Tori Jeffrey Steffen Niklas