This weekend we traveled to Germany! It was a lot different than I expected but I enjoyed it and am glad we took a weekend trip there. The first two nights we traveled to Berlin. There is so much history and it's so interesting to me at how much younger America is in relation to Europe. We planned a tour to see The Concentration Camp.
Thursday night I came down with a stomach bug which was such a bummer. My number one thing I wanted to do in Germany was go to the concentration camp so Friday I rallied, but it caused for a long day. We took a really detailed tour that took almost the whole day. It was so informative and interesting but also so sad. I find this history in time so fascinating to study and it was so real seeing it and being in a place where all these awful things happened.
On our way home we stopped to see The a Berlin Wall. I expected it to be much greater than it was and it was sad to see all the graffiti all over. I'm happy we stopped to see it though because it's another thing to check off my bucket list!
Saturday we traveled to Frankfurt. I didn't realize it was such a business town, but we had a great time there because we were able to watch Germany play at a fun sports bar. For lunch we also found a chipotle! I think one of the biggest things I've noticed that's different here is the portion sizes of food, and the prices. Food is served in such smaller portions here and you sometimes end up paying more! I ordered the same thing at chipotle that I normally do, paid double the price and got a little over half a normal serving. Overall, Germany was a lot of fun and we learned a ton within the history of it all.
On Monday we went to NHTV (the school in the Netherlands) and took a cooking class in the morning! They have a very large hospitality program and it was interesting to compare to ours. I talked to a man who ran the restaurant about their program and I really liked it. They said first years work for the restaurant and help serve and maintain. Second years become managers of the restaurant. Third years are required a 6 month internship and fourth years are supposed to get a management internship. By the end they are graduating with so much experience so I thought that was really neat.
We prepared lunch and it was DELICIOUS!! We currently live in a hotel so it was our first "home-cooked" meal since we've been here is it was so nice. We had BLTs in classic Holland bread served with fries, shrimp croquettes, salad and soup. For desserts we had a chocolate mouse cake, creme brûlée and strawberries that were soaked in balsamic and sugar! Everything was amazing and it was fun because we all cooked different things.
We rented bikes in the morning and rode them there. In the afternoon we had a guest speaker come and talk to us about "imagineering" and it was so interesting. He had such a different view of the hospitality industry but it was really inspiring to hear him talk. Tonight the Netherlands play so we're just getting ready for that and have class again tomorrow!
250 people who lived in here...so sad...
The Barracks
Jail cell for people who were a threat to the Nazi party.
The Concentration Camp.
The furnace which they cremated the bodies :(
The Berlin Wall
Cooking Class!!
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