Novotel Katowice Rondo

... me love and letters :)<br><br>It means more than I can say. Thank you.<br><br>I'll end this post with a video! Yay! 30 minutes before every show, our cast has "Green Room". I believe I have mentioned this activity before. Basically it is time to let out any frustrations and worries and have fun before performing. Here we are dancing and singing to what has become one of our favorite warm-up activities. Enjoy!<br><br>Green Room Video<br><br>See you all very soon.<br> <br>

... was of a grand size. The two biggest of the four gas chambers were each designed to eliminate up to 2000 people at a time. <br><br>The Polish government, through the museum and the guides, do an excellent job at getting their point across: the Holocaust was massive and Auschwitz played one of the most evil roles. <br><br>It would be a somber ride home. It was not a place I thought that I would really want to go back to. That thought would be proven wrong. <br> <br>

On Friday, April 17, my history class visited the Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau sites just outside of Krakow. Our day started very early. We left the hotel at around 7:30 am and took the approximately 1 hour bus ride to the first camp, Auschwitz I. For those of you who do not know, the infamous Auschwitz camp that we all are familiar with was actually three different camps. The first, Auschwitz I, was the main concentration ...

... the last sip of Grand Marnier, it had started to rain, and before we could protest, the sofa bed was made up for us. Needless to say, it had been a big day and we slept very very well. We woke the next morning when James came down to let the dogs out to pasture. He made us breakfast in their sunny kitchen and then we all watched the Americans play in the gold medal Olympic basketball game. By the time the game was over, we had done some email, packed up our ...

... we have done. Consequently, no other nation deserves victory as we do." Think about that quote in relation to the horror of Auschwitz. Can there be a better example of Scott Peck's belief that evil people are People of the Lie (the title of his book). What do we conclude about those who deny the reality of the Holocaust? The British historian David Irving, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinajad? Is one of the lessons of the Second World ...

Went into Krakow's center at 9:00 AM for a walking tour. Krakow has one of the largest town square in all of Europe. It used to be the capital of Poland and acted as a large trading center in old times. St. Mary's is a large two-towered cathedral on on the corners of the square. Every hour, there is a bugle call from the taller of the towers that cuts off abruptly to remember the near destruction of the city in 1241, when the invading Tatars shot down ...

... home with first and last names. Sometimes I think we get caught up in the sheer enormity of the number killed, estimated at six million in total, and we tend to forget that each person had a job, a family, a talent, a story. When you think of it this way, six million seems like a lot more than six million. The end of the exhibit included a sculpture created to memorialize those killed simply for being Jewish. It was a barbed wire-lattice silhouetted by a golden-hued backdrop ...

... in fact the promotion didn`t work any longer nad we had to pay f***n big amount for the stupid journey Warsaw-Katowice-Opole. In Katowice we had a little break, waititng for our another train, so we went to McDonald for a milk shake (the only thing that I eat, well, actually, drink there).

I spent 9 hours at Auschwitz concentration camp. Saw both camps (Birkenau is the second) and it was as disturbing as you might imagine. From the ironic 'Arbeit macht frei' (work brings freedom) sign above the entrance gate and the barbed wire fences to the rooms full of human hair, childrens shoes and giant piles of toothbrushes, it was overwhelming and almost impossible to comprehend. One of the things I found slightly puzzling was that given the seemingly limitless depths of cruelty ...

... various sculptures to pass time. These sculptures are absolutely breathtaking. There are human figures, various kings and queens, the last supper, Jesus and virgin Mary and many others. The tour guide took us 130 feet down to see many beautiful chambers made of salt. They are beautiful. The rock salt is darker than than our regular salt. Because of their immense size and density, sculptures are possible. We wondered through mazes of tunnel and rooms. Accoring to ...