My vacation in Europe

A good time of my life was my time in Germany, and especially in Munich. In my favorite pub/restaurant in the world, The Hofbrauhaus. During my 7th grade summer, my family and i went to Europe for a family vacation and to visit relatives over the Atlantic, primarily in Germany. First, we spent a month in Germany, traveling abroad with a rent-a-car we had for a entire month. Going from place to place for weeks. We had a great time and visited many monuments and famous museums, alot of large attractions for tourist. My favorite city in all of Europe, so far, or at least for the history is Stuttgart, In Germany. This city in reknown and famous for the cars it produces. The Porsche, BMW, And Mercedes factory all reside in Germany, not only factory's, but museums, and gift shops, and larger dealerships. I think Audi too,and Volkswagen has its own city dedicated to itself, because Volkswagen owns many other car manufactures, for instance, Bugatti, Audi, Lamborghini, Bentley, i cant remember the rest..I love cars, and i am fully German, so i really take a fancy to German cars. I've liked cars, basically, since i was born. My grandpa had a shop in Oakland, dealing mainly with Volkswagen's, so my dad worked there for his high school career. But also, other German car owners could go there with other German cars. I can talk about cars for a long time.

The Volkswagen city, well, i was there in 2006, so I'm sure it has changed alot. To start out with, i want to say this is a place i would lie to visit someday again, hopefully soon. Basically, it is like a giant mall for car enthusiasts, there is a shitload of buildings, and they all have something to do with cars in them. It is called autostat, i believe. There is a museum for 5+ car manufactures, Starting out with the vw building, because it is the biggest building in the whole city, beside maybe the factory, where they produce some of the cars they make. They have things and activity's for all ages, and even a huge library, full of thousands of books, for sale. For the toureg, there idea of an suv, has its own test track people can use. IT is a track full of obstacles and a water crossing, a place where you can really feel the car, and what it can do. The historical museums in autostat are amazing, and they are designing so many people can go through it every day, theres not really a crowd per car because its so big. One thing, i really enjoyed, is the theme of the whole park; there is fountains, and a really good ambiance in the way they build the city. There is clean cut grass and cleanliness everywhere. There is not one bad thing i can say about this town of car enthusiasts. Soon, maybe my senior year, i will return.

Holocaust

Human nature: Who participates in genocide, and why? What does the commonality of genocide lead you to believe about humanity

Holocaust Genocide
One of the worst events in history happened in Germany, in the 1930's and 1940's. This genocide is known as the Holocaust and roughly 6 million Jews were killed. Genocide is a mass murder of people by another group of people, for example, Jews and Nazi's. In my opinion, the people who cause mass murders, are not intelligent enough to realize what they are doing, and become powerful enough to control an army, or a group of soldiers who follow orders without recognizing the damage. I think the commonality in all genocides is that a single man who is backed by a group of men who have one goal that changes and they become mad with power and have no consideration for the victims. The victims most times, can be completely innocent and the person with control wants them gone because of their beliefs and religion, so their freedom and life are drastically changed because of a personal or her-ital choice they or there ancestors have made.

Most Genocides that have happened are infamous and on the Internet so its possibly to know about many of them. The holocaust is one that i knew some facts about but i just looked it up and it is one of the biggest mass murdering events in the world and in history. More than 6 million people died, but 6 million of them were of Jewish decent. The concentration camps also took out other religions and different colored people, so basically, anyone who was not blue eyed and blond haired white heterosexual male or female who was all there in the head was killed. They persecuted mentally ill and homosexual victims. this is an event that went down in history as evil, it is very sad, and only happened about 65 to 80 years ago. Many people suffered, not only the people who were killed, but everyone. The average people who were just trying to live. Most people now-a-days don't understand the pain that these people went through. The Jews had to give up all of their belongings and give them to the Nazis to help supply the money that was going into the holocaust.
What i know is that my grandpa and grandma on my dads side are both 100 percents German, and they were children when the Holocaust started, or when it was in motion, and i know their childhoods were very hard. They had nothing like we have today, absolutely nothing. My grandpa had to go to work on a coal barge when he was 15 because his family was so poor.It was very hard work for cheap because of the time era and his age. This is right after this genocide, and from the stories I've heard them say, and they were not really directed by the holocaust in many ways. My grandma says she remembers soldiers coming to his small village, but they were nice. All i remember from her stories about this is that her family became very poor. So it did affect everybody in the whole country.

I can even imagine the soldiers breaking down because of the killing of so many people, it is unbearable. To work at a factory that only kills people or die yourself, i just don't understand how this happened. Many of the German soldiers died from many different things, but one huge factor was starvation. There was not enough food for everybody, and many people quit working to be a Nazi, so even less food.

After writing this i feel very grateful to be alive in the best time yet, yes there is still many international and local problems. But for the most part i have a good live. I don't have to worry about starving or being homeless and i live in a good community. Even my dad's childhood was tougher than mine, he had alot of work, to help support his family. There still was starving people in his time, and even my time, but not so much in America as other countries. I am thankful for living in America.

the world

What to write about

I am getting a small dosage of the disease known as writers block. I am not sure what i can write about, ill resume in about 3 minutes after brainstorming possibly ideas. Well, im back and i have decided to write about movies. I watched the movie gamer this weekend and i did not like it because it was confusing and the topic did not intrest me. I did though kind of like the whole futuristic thing, and how the diresters think the future will be.
It is werid to think about how 100 years from now, our world will be completely different. 100 years ago, people who thought about the future thought that this kind of technolgy will not be avalible today, but it is. I have heard people say, if you go 100 years back, and ask a average person in an average town in he thought there could be a very small and thin tablet device that could hold so much information, and access the internet. THe iphone, or itouch, people then thought those kinds of things are rediculas.
We have came a long way in just 100 years, considering that the human race has been around for a long ass time, thousands of years. And there are still problems in the world, big problems to. Not everyone can eat, but there are individuals who have enough money to buy a country. I do thing if a person works hard, he should be able to earn almost what ever he wants. But there is a point where there is nothing else he could buy, nd there are families that are starving in parts of the world. It is funny how i started with movies and i came upon this subject. I think in the future, more problems will be fixxed, but more will start. I think i am going on with this subject for my next blog, because i can write alot more about the world, and problems, and countries, and movies.

Video games, and my brother

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I am Writing a quickwrite from the subject of videogames we did a few weeks ago. I can almost relate to this, not because i play videogames because i used to and my brother is an addict. He plays on his laptop every day and every night. His main game is called left for dead and he loves it. I know its not healthy for him and ever since he has started to play tons of video games, his grades have been dropping.
My parents took his laptop away to help him in his scoolloop work. They found out hes an addict because they have came into his room at almost all hours, and all they see is him, in his bed with the reflection of the light from the screen on his face and his plain face, with the sound of tapping fingers in a dark room.
I do make fun of him because its wrong for him to play all the time, and hopefully, if i continue, he will stop, or at least slowly quit down. I just dont want him to grow up and be a loser. Thats what happens, even my dad tells him, hes not even good at typing.He is interseted in computers, and wires, and hardware and all the computer gadgets and gizmos.
I used to play video games when i was younger, but so did everyone, and i wasn't getting obssesed. If i had the choice to go out and play with my friends, or stay at home and play video games, i would go out but my brother is the opposite. I got the play station 2 when it first came out and i won't lie, i played it alot, but in about 6th grade i prettty much stopped, i lost intrest and only played sometimes, if me and my friends were bored.

Birthday choices

Well, soon, a month from today is my birthday and i either want to go to an amusement park or paintballing. I can invite 5 friends, and me, so thats 6 in total which is even, so its a good number for an amusement park. Im learning towards six flags because it would be easier for a day trip. I am probably going to go to an amusement park because i think it would be funner. And we would have all day, and also its cheaper. It will still be expensive for six flags, but cheaper than paintballing, by alot for a group.
In march, i will have my license, i just have to pass the drivers test which should be easy enough. I am most likely going to get my neibors early 90's acura sedan, which is a good beginner car. I am just sycked to get a car, it is a manuel, but i can already drive a stick. At the base is where i learned to drive a stick, with my dads favorite car, acually its more of a truck. Its an early 90's vw vanagon truck, with a 4 speed, and like 1 1915cc motor, or something close to that. He bought it about 2 years ago, but raely drives it because it is really hard to find replaceable parts, so if he gets in any kind of accident it would be difficult to get parts. I like driving it, i just need to become smoother with my shifting, i have not drove it in a while though.

I really like cars and trucks and pretty much anything that has to do with off road or street racing. I have looked up and studied alot of stuff about these topics and youtube has been a great help, because no matter what, there is a video about it on youtube.