by Connor McKenna
After getting held in Altenburg for four extra days due to conflicts, a
fellow groupmate, Chip, and I had to find ways to stay entertained. The daughter of
our group leader Erika Körnor gave us the options of going to two cities close
by: Leipzig and Dresden. In Leipzig, there was an abundance of different sights
and points of interest including a museum of the secret police in former East
Germany and a museum of modern German history. 
In Dresden, Chip, Erika, and I all traveled to a former residence of the Prussian Kings. This residence was named Zwinger and housed an armory museum named Rüstkammer and a museum of the Prussian King’s art named Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Art Gallery of the Old Masters). Both of these exhibits within this immense estate were extraordinary and really did an excellent job of showing the Prussian kings truly illustrious lifestyle. After our tour of Zwinger our group traveled to the massive and almost fully transparent Volkswagon factory. In the factory we learned that all the factory workers operate under constant watch due to all of the factory walls being glass. After finishing the tour in Dresden we returned to Altenburg.
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