I can’t believe we’re already more than a week into our program; time has gone by so fast! Today we had a much lighter day and a slow morning, meeting up with the group around 1:00 pm. Before this, we didn’t do much on our own, but we did sleep in and had a great morning, eventually getting up to go and get brunch. When we met with the group, we took a private transfer and headed to the Watersnoodmuseum. This museum focuses mainly on the flood on February 1st, 1953. Additionally, it also mentions and has information about a lot of things and natural disasters that have to do with water. It was extremely touching in how they present the information and how they dealt with it by building dikes.

They have more specific information about people and falilies that lost people and lost their homes and everything. There were more than 3000 people that lost their lives becuase of this horrible flood. The museum also devistingly presented a video representation of what happened that night. When the alarms sounded at night and thousands of men stood throughout the dam in order to strengthen the barrier between the water and land. Obviously, man power will never be stronger than the ocean, so the ocean eventually just broke the dam and took everything, including the men, with it.

Something really interesting we experienced and learned is how a man after the flood took 5 years to embroider each and every last name of the people that lost their lives that night. They have an interactive activity in order for one to learn to embroider, just to have an idea of everything that man did just to have the lives of those people remembered. Bryce Sweeney and I got the opportunity to learn this incredible form of art and get an idea of what the man had to go through by embroidering a part the logo of the museum. Overall, it was incredible to see through various artifacts, photos and videos about what happened in that horrible day all those years ago and what can happen if we keep contributing to global warming.