Friends in Munich!!

We have been in Munich for the past week visiting our friends we met in Thailand only two months ago. We have had so much fun Anna and Diar. They have really been showing us how to be true Germans!

They were showing us around this huge park in the middle of the city when all of a sudden we found some people surfing. Check the video below it explains it a little bit. It was really cool to see a bit of a culture I understand for the first time in almost 3 months.

Surfing in Munich? from Eric White on Vimeo.

The girl on my right was Lucia. She is Anna's best friend and joined in with our tour around Munich.

Part of the tour of Germany was getting to know their culture. They were so proud of their beer. Germans love beer all of the time. They were so excited to show us what their beer was like.This was on our first day in Munich. We went out for lunch at about 11:45. It was already going crazy!! It was super fun.

Crazy Germans from Eric White on Vimeo.

Katie and I had not eaten sushi in almost 3 months so we went on a hunt and found a really cool Sushi restaurant in downtown Munich. (Finding one we could afford was the only hard part) This is a short edit of the action that took place there.

Sushi Time in Munich, Germany from Eric White on Vimeo.

One day we took a little field trip to the first ever German concentration camp called Dachau. This was such a wild ride of emotions.
A view from inside one of the Berrics where they would cram over 2000 people into a room meant to fit 200

This is the beds they would sleep on inside these berrics.
A small candle burns in a church set up as a memorial inside the walls of the camp.

This is the smoke stack for the crematorium where thousands of people lost their lives.
Below is where they would shove the bodies of "prisoners" into the burning furnace. In the last few weeks before the liberation they ran out of coal so the bodies of the dead were thrown into mass graves just outside the camp. There were over 7,500 bodies found in this mass grave, which was only one of many.
A memorial set up for everyone who lost their lives here from 1933-1945

This was one of the strangest days of my life. The mix of emotions that I felt was almost overwhelming. Actually walking through the places where terrible acts of torture and other unspeakable evils gave me a way different feeling about the second great war than I have ever felt before. Definitely a day I will never forget.

Sorry this is such a long post. There was just so much that has happened in the last week. It is nice to finally be caught up!!