Today we started off the day by going to the BallinStadt immigration museum. The building of the museum itself was super interesting! It was compromised of four separate buildings, which You had to physical enter and exits through to view the different exhibits. These buildings were apparently where prospective immigrants stayed at before going over to North and South America. What I found super unique is that the museum had 6 different people and you learned about their situation and why they wanted to immigrate and followed their journey to see what their life was after they immigrated. Andrea also mentioned an interesting point that within our schooling we were taught to assume that people immigrated to Canada because we were able to provide then with opportunity. Although this is true never learned that there were many social and political issues within Europe that forced people to move against their wishes. Overall I throughly enjoyed the museum, I suppose Andrea’s museum loving is rubbing off on me!!
We then headed off to dinner to meet with Lea and Francisca for the biggest pizza of my life! Even sharing sharing half of it with Andrea I wasn’t able to finish it! Thankfully we just had to cross the street to go to the ballet! The Hamburg Ballet of Giselle was fantastic! Their interpretation of the ballet focussed on a depicting more emotion to the audience then a typical ballet. They also included a lot of contemporary ballet into their repitoure. A fantastic performance, and it was also Andreas first time to a ballet! We were defiantly the youngest people there and we did get quite a few comments from the ushers which was rather unfortunate.