Friday was a day I was looking forward to. I wanted to visit the special mosque that supports the LGBTQ community and accepts and shelters them. But we had an interview at the same time, and priorities come in, so me and Mara went to Babylon Kino which is the oldest remaining cinema in Berlin and is very unique in many ways. We got the answers we needed for our project and we were given a tour of the place as well as a rundown and comparison between how it was in the past, what it went through, and how it is now. It was quite intriguing and I liked the visit. We then rushed to meet with everyone in a town an hour away from Berlin, Oranienburg, for a visit to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. It was the place that I most felt uncomfortable in because of the history that it holds. The harsh treatment that prisoners were getting there was a thing I found difficulty stomaching. And the worse part was the place where they tested gazes’ effects on the inmates and where they tortured, killed, and then cremated them. Even now, just writing about it, I feel sad for the people there at the time, and what they went through.
Moving on to lighter topics, we had the last dinner with all the Norwegians. It was Vietnamese and we had some good food. Elise, Natalia, and I had arrived to the restaurant last AND late cause we took the wrong bus- the usual for us, so we had to sit at the teachers’ table and had some bonding time them.
