The place that I want to visit... Deutschland.

One of the many places that I want to visit is Germany. Germany is on the top of the list. In high school I took German as a foreign language for three years, and along with that we learned about the history and a lot about the Holocaust, considering it was a big part of their history. The Holocaust intrigues me. When I go to Germany I want to visit a concentration camp, Auschwitz is the one I really want to see. Also my last name is German, and I am half German so I to go over there also just because of culture and heritage. Learning about the German culture in high school makes me want to go over even more. When I go I am going to want to be there for at least one week hopefully I can go for two weeks. When I go I want to go with my younger brother, he is 16 and taking German right now and we both want to go so bad to actually be able to see what the culture is like. My brother went to Washington D.C. this year for the March to Life and he got to visit the Holocaust museum there, I was so jealous, but it makes me want to go even more. The food in Germany has its differents and similarities, they do have McDonald's, but the differences is that the German people walk and ride bikes more often, because for one you can't get a driver's licence until you are 18 and then if you want to it cost a lot of money. I hope that some day I can go to Germany and see the culture, landscape and their history.

Where in the world are the most Rachels?

This is a cool website! When I typed in my name I expected to have the United States to have the most Rachels in the world, but the US was number 4 on the list. The country that has the most girls named Rachel in the world is Poland. Number 2 is India and the third country is Germany, the next country is the US and the fifth country is France. This is crazy I did not know that the so many countries, and so many people use the name Rachel. The name Rachel means 'Little Lamb'.

After I typed in my first name I was curious to see where my last name is used the most. I was told that my name is German. What I found was that my name is German, but more people in Switzerland use it. Then Germany. The United States is seventh.

Vacation to Seoul, South Korea anyone?

On you tube I found this tourism video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxyY4lqAjcE While I was watching this video I thought it was interesting that they showed both the modern side of Seoul, but had an emphasis on the history and how important it is.

As the video went on they said that 'Youth and Passion' are other names for Seoul. I thought that was interesting. Through this video you see the technology side of the city.

This video was cool because you got to see a lot of the city and its surroundings during the video. It looks likes a city that is always going, that has alot to do and see.

Bizzare Foods

To Eat or not to eat, that is the great question. I know for a fact that in my family the second we got home we were hungary adn asking mom what is for dinner. As I think back if she would have placed this in front of me I don't know what I would do.

I enjoy watching this show, because well for starters youu get to see places all over the world and what they eat but it also shows some of the culture that goes along with the food.

This picture is of a spaghetti dish is Sicily. This dish is interesting because unlike our spaghetti which normally has a meat sauce with it, this dish has squid ink with some squid meat. It still has some basic ingredients in it, such as garlic, tomato sauce, and parsley. Also in Sicily they had Anelleti with Octopus, which also looked like an odd dish to me. This got me thinking about what we eat here in America, what do people from other countries think about what we eat?

G-20

Countries that belong to the G-20 are

Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, United Kingdom and the United States of America.

This image is looking at Antarctia and also at Australia. I like this image because it shows a different way to look at Antarctia. When we think of Antartic, and look at it on a globe, you don't normally see all of it. I didn't know that it looked that big. Antarctia is 14 million sq km.
I also like how you see the under side of Australia. This image is different because its something we hardly ever see.

Slumdog Millionaire

I liked this movie alot. I think that they did a great job of showing the culture, and also the different classes in India. It was so cool to see many of the things that we talked about in Geography class actually show up on the screen. The beginning was intense, actually the first half of the movie was. It was really sad to see the children get tricked into things. I also really understood the idea of family and that they well do whatever for those they love. I feel like this movie showed the culture and geography of India. They did great.