Bread with butter and chocolate sprinkles

Today was a field trip! We went to the JCC to talk to the holocaust survivors. I should have waltzed in that same auditorium that we do for camp plays, a little more frightened. Who knew a real live person sitting in front of me could actually make me want to cry. There stories were horrifying. My favorite story was the first. A woman who lived in what is now the Ches republic, right on the border of Germany. She was young when Hitler invaded. All her friends started out by turning on her and eventually it got to a point where her village already picked out a tree for her mother, father and brother to be hung. Yet her dad knew about that last part and took the family into Austria, where majority of his clients were. Soon Hitler got there too; and I can't remember that next part (it was like 12 hours ago!) but the next thing you know, her family gets out of hiding and takes the train to... somewhere. Where there visas await to come to America. They stay at a hotel, and when they wake up in the morning, they find the nazis have invaded and are staying at there hotel. They sneak downstairs speaking only there most perfect Austrian to not draw attention that there first language is German. They than find out that there vizas have been canceled due to the facts they are Jews. Her dad marches down to the headquarters, and when he doesn't return by nightfall, her mother gets worried and heads there herself. She tells her young children to go to sleep, and she will return back at the hotel by morning.
When the mother arrives she demands to speak to the head solider, and forcefully asks where her husband is. The solider says he is planning on deporting him to a concentration camp, but because she was so brave, he will let her go. She says "we are a family, and if he goes down, we all do." And in return, the general amazingly sets him free and gives them there visas.
The family is soon on a train to the boating dock where they will sail for America. At the dock there is a woman with buttered bread with chocolate sprinkles, as this woman brighty recalls, as if the suffering she went through was made up for by this peace of bread.
The woman eventually becomes a social worker in new york city. And I thanked her at the end when we were supposed to leave. She has a nice smile and wise eyes.

On a lighter note, Ani has been sick since Monday and I am in turn so desperately bored and lonely in science and lunch. Since where Ani doesn't sit with us, neither does Melissa. Ans when Melissa doesn't sit with us I stop laughing and my immune system gets cruddy and I'll probably die soon. Unless Ani does come back tomorrow like she said she would on the phone.
Oh yeah, and I have a splinter in my toe that wont come out. It really hurts like crazy.