My day in Dresden

Ever since reading Slaughterhouse Five by one of my favorites, Vonnegut (http://www.vonnegut.com) I'd always been interested in going to Dresden and seeing how it had been rebuilt. I heard that it was just as beautiful as it had been before the horrible bombing it had gotten...and it was. One of the most beautiful cities I've been to. If I hadn't loved Germany before, this city is definitely the one that did it.

I stayed in Lollie's Homestay, which actually was really homey...the way they'd decorated the girl's dorm room that I stayed in was adorable...Important sights in Dresden...Church of Our Lady, Semper Opera House, etc...I spent some time in GroBer Garten (right by the German Hygiene Museum), and walked through some great little residential areas.

As Kurt Vonnegut's character Billy Pilgram says, "Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt," would make a good epitaph for himself, and anyone that simply tried to remember the beautiful moments of life which are just like "bugs trapped in a blob of amber."