Pergamon Museum

Sorry this is a couple days late!  Time goes by pretty fast over here!


On Tuesday, a trip to the Pergamon Museum was organized by school.  We met at the school with Lsya, who was our group leader for the day.  Things then got a little disorganized and confusing.  She gave us the option of just paying for the day or buying a year pass for the museums on museum island.  There were at least 20 people in the group and everyone except for 5 of us wanted a year pass. The rest of us didn't want to get one and only wanted to pay for the day, so we had to wait.  We gave Lsya our money for her to buy our tickets and waited for the others to rejoin our group.  When most of the group came back from buying their year pass, we went inside the entrance of the museum.  We took our things over to a little coat check in area.  We were given a little "ticket" back and then walked over to get our tour guide headset.  Everyone kind of split up into their own little groups after that.  We did take a few group pictures on the steps of the temple, but that was probably the only time our group was entirely together for the rest of the museum trip!


The Pergamon Museum is incredible.  That's really the only way I can describe it.  It is a huge museum!  The Pergamon has original-sized, reconstructed monumental buildings such as the Pergamon Altar and the Market Gate of Miletus, all consisting of parts transported from Turkey.  The Pergamon is divided into the antiquity collection, the Middle East museum, and the museum of Islamic art.  I strongly recommend going!


We pretty much stayed until the museum closed.  I took a ton of pictures, but unfortunately, they are all on my camera, so I can't upload them!  I can steal pictures from other people though that went!  We were the only people left inside the museum, so we kind of hurried to get our things.  Our group then got stuck inside the museum.  Lsya wouldn't listen to me when I told her that a specific door was open and all the others were closed.  She continued to walk around the bottom level of the museum trying to figure out how we would get out.  I then decided to just walk over to the door I had been trying to tell her about and opened it.  Other people in the group saw and followed.  We would have been out of the museum 10 minutes earlier than we were if she had listened to what I had been telling her!


Last night for dinner we had Hackenbraten and Gemuese!  It was delicious.  It was merely meatloaf and vegetables, but amazingly good.  My hmom doesn't follow recipes.  She sort of just throws things together and creates new things on her own.  It's great!  She did it last night with putting different things in the meatloaf and was asking me how many eggs I usually put in when I make it.  I told her that I've never put a cooked egg in the middle of the meatloaf and had never heard of that.  She said her Canadian friend does it and says it's the popular way of making meatloaf.  It must be popular in Canada, because I've never heard of such a thing!


Tonight we had spaghetti!  It was so much food!  We had salad before and then the spaghetti.  I didn't finish my dinner, so sorry if there's bad weather tomorrow guys!  I'll take the blame since I didn't finish my dinner.  My hmom also created her own concoction for dessert!  It was a mixture of coconut creme and bananas!  I really liked it!  With all that being said and what I've said previously about my hmom's cooking, I'm definitely eating well here!


I'm completely stuffed and my throat is a bit sore, so I think it's time to relax and then head to bed a little early tonight!  Have a wonderful day everyone!