So finally we made it to the last day! We had an early wake-up..like normal. We drove from Krakow to Warsaw which was about a 5 hour drive. It was a great bus ride because I was able to sleep! When we got to Warsaw, we went to an Orphanage. We didn't go inside though...only talked a little bit about it outside the orphanage.
After this, we went to the Ghetto Wall and stood in the exact place of where the Jewish Ghetto was. Alan, our teacher talked about it for a while. Everyone was so unfocused so it was hard to concentrate again. But then the most exciting part of the day happened. So the wall is pretty much surrounded by apartments. The apartment closest to the wall this Polish guy opens his window and yells in his broken english, "THIS IS NOT GHETTO WALL YOU IDIOT, GO AWAY GO AWAY." Alan said okay and then continued talking about it. The Polish guy just kept screaming at Alan, then all of sudden he goes inside but left his window open. I knew he was going to come back out. We had a huge body guard with us who was like 6'5 and all muscle anddd he spoke Polish. Alan called him over to stand extra close to us. The Polish guy comes out again with a white bucket. Our body guard started talking to him in Polish..well it ended up to be a yelling session. The Polish guy threw the bucket at us and it was full of water. Our body guard yelled at him even more, then they started hitting each other. Then the Polish guy got a white metal rod and started hitting our guard with it. That was kinda scary, but our guard took it out of his hands, bent it, and hit him with it. The Polish guy slammed the window in his face. We ended up leaving because we did not want anything else to happen. That was my first experience with anti-semitism though. It was just crazy! It was pretty exciting though. But after that we walked around then went to the airport. bye.
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