23/05/2010
It is our first weekend and our first real free-time. I am headed to Amsterdam with most of the other students on the trip. I figure that while I’m still adjusting to traveling in Europe that it’s best that I stay with a group. After sleeping in late, we took a boat tour of Amsterdam, which was not worth our euros. We visited the Anne Frank House which I found very touching. I appreciated that the goal of the museum to combat discrimination still applies today and that active attempts towards that goal are displayed in an interactive room before the exit. I am very curious as to what changed between Anne Frank’s initial draft and her partial rewrite of her diary.
The next day we visited a small town with a wooden shoe factory. It was very pleasant. Later that day I visited the Van Gogh Museum with a fellow student. The museum was very nice and I really enjoyed Van Gogh’s landscapes. We then enjoyed a leisurely walk in a very nice park on the way back to the hostel.
-Knut
(a blog by Greg Hoyt)
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