Holocuast Trip

This week my class and I went to the Holocaust museum. When we got off the buses they split us in to two groups, I was part of the green group. When we first got into the the exhibit we saw some common items found in a Jewish home during 1930's, We saw a picture of a Menorah that is in the Holocaust museum Israel it was from a family who survived the Holocaust, they donated it and every year the take it back from the Exhibit to use for Hanuka. A main topic we learned about was Resistance. There are big and small ways to show resistance, we saw a picture that somebody took during that time period  there was a menorah on a window sill and through the window you can see Nazi flags raised. In my opinion that picture is a big sign of resistance. At the beginning of the trip we saw the Nazi armbands in display cases all nicely preserved and I was think that they should be burned and buried not in nice display cases but then a little bit later in the exhibit they had Nazi pins and pictures of Hitler i the group over a piece of glass so people could step on it and I was glad or satisfied and I thought that was a really great idea. The whole architecture in the Museum is really cool there was one part where you go down a ramp and you are in a ghetto. The whole Museum was built around a freight car that was used to transport people to Auschwitz , we got to go in and see it was small but they said 100 people were in each car .I really liked going to the museum because I love to learn about the Holocaust.

Someone named Eva Diary post

March 13, 2016

Dear Diary
 I have been at this place for two weeks, Two weeks ago the Nazi's took me and my sister and many other girls and brought us here. We were taken from our homes and then put on a bus. What I noticed about the bus was all the girls on it had blond hair and blue eyes like me. Why would they separate all the blond hair and blue eyed girls. I'm happy that my sister and I are together but where are my friends they are not on the bus. Since we have been at this place we have been giving new German names y name is Elsa and my sister's name is Heidi. We have to go to school every day but we are only taught in German. We are taught to be perfect Germans, but my sister is falling behind she doesn't understand German she very little I don't know what to do.
         
 Goodnight
                    -Elsa

Goodnight Maman

Recently I read a book called goodnight Maman, (please do not read this blog if you are or will be going to be reading this book because it has spoilers) it is a WWII story about a french Jewish girl named Karin who has to leave her mother and go to to america with her brother Marc. Karin must escape the Nazi's but her mother cant go because she is too sick.Marc and Karin go on a boat that will take them to america. During their trip Marc leans their mother died but he loves Karin to much to tell her. Marc keeps it a secret through out the whole book until Karin figures it out. Karin was mad at Marc but understood why he kept it a secret he was trying to shield her form being hurt which is Marc is my favorite character.

Cheer leading

At our school when basketball season starts so does cheer leading. Our cheer leading coach is really nice and she was a cheerleader in highs school. Practices are really fun we have them every day after school. First we stretch then we work on sidelines the we run half-time an finally we stunt. For half time we do two groups of knee stunts and I am a flyer. At the end of practice we go to the mats and we do chin stunts which is bringing somebody's feet up to your chin and the we cradle which is letting that person fall into your arms. The only person that is brave enough to do the stunt is my best friend Isabel, Isabel is a amazing dancer and she a great  cheerleader.I really like cheer practice by my favorite part is games I love cheering at games when we win the whole squad runs into the hallway and we start scream a high five an then our coach lectures us about screaming.
I really enjoy cheer leading and I m excited to cheer at the tournament.