Anne Frank House and Pidgeons

November 3, 2011

We went to the Anne Frank House today. It is a canal house where the Frank family went into hiding for about two years. It’s been turned into a museum now but you are able to walk through the rooms of the secret annex. You see the bookcase that was used as a secret door to get into the back bedrooms. You walk through all of the bedrooms including that which belonged to Anne Frank. There are still newspaper and magazine pictures hanging on the walls (covered by protective glass) from where Anne Frank had glued photos to decorate the walls. At the end of the tour you are able to see the actual diary which is in a glass case. Of course it had been replaced by a replica for restoration purposes when we visited. Typical. However, it was a great experience to be able to see the house and read all of the plaques about the Anne Frank house and the liberation of Germany. There were quotes from the diary all around the house as well. I’ve read the diary before in eight grade but It kind of made me want to reread it. I actually own ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ in Spanish so that could be a project in itself.

Also, today we were sitting in Dam Square eating lunch and there was a cluster of about one million pidgeons. They were letting people feed them so I decided to go over. I got in the middle of them and this little old man grabbed my hand and put rice in it. Then all the birds came. It was great.

Me and all those pidgeons