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Prague, Czech Republic - The Auburn women's basketball team had a full day touring the Moser Glass Factory and Terezin Concentration Camp on Monday. The Tigers spent the entire day traveling to and touring both areas before returning to their hotel for dinner and down time. The Tigers will play Hradec Kralove on Tuesday at 5 p.m. local time.

Rising senior Sherell Hobbs tells us about her third day in Prague.

Today we went to the Moser Glass Factory, which was about a two hour bus ride away. It was really exciting to see how glass was made. All of the glass is made from hand and the workers train for three years to learn how to make the glass.

The finished glass was so beautiful. They export the glass to a lot of different coutries, including the United States. The glass is formed from a mixture of glass sand, limestone and a liquid chemical mixture. The workers blow air from a stick to form the glass shapes.

The factory was very hot inside because they cook the glass in 500 degree ovens. All the workers who were dealing with the hot glass and ovens were men, while the women carried the finished glass to the cooling system. The workers made several different glass objects in our short time there, including a large vase, wine glasses and various glass objects.

After we left the glass factory we had lunch in a nearby town and we able to walk around that city. Even though there were several local restaurants, I decided to have McDonalds for lunch to save money for later.

I had to change over my American money to the Czech crowns and that was quite an experience.

After lunch we drove for another two hours to the Terezin Concentration Camp where our guide talked about the Holocaust and the effects on Jewish people. The rooms that the people were kept in were extremely small and hundreds of people were stuffed into one room at a time. And the rooms only had one bathroom and others had no bathrooms at all. The people had to sleep on the floors and others because the rooms were so small had to stand up during the night. This experience made me appreciate being an American and I know how truly blessed I have been.

On the tour we walked about half a mile in an underground tunnel that the guards used to take prisoners to be executed. It was cold and dark in the tunnel and KeKe wasn't even able to stand up straight because the ceilings were so low.

After the tour we got back on the bus and came back to the hotel. Most of us were pretty tired from all the walking so we napped on the way home. We got back to the hotel and rested for a bit before going into town for dinner and people watching.