ACSA Visits Washington DC
I don’t even know where to begin with today’s day. We started out by going to the National Achives, for those of you who don’t know what that is, it’s where all our Nation’s documents are, such as the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, and the Bill Of Rights.
Then we continued onto our tour of the Capital Building. We saw many things such as the spot where John Quincy Adams desk was while he was in politics. There was a story told that John Adams used to sit at his desk and pretend to sleep while listening to other people’s secrets on the other side of the room. Although this is possible today because the whole room is made of marble and your voice bounces from the floor to the ceiling and across the room, it was not possible when he was alive. This is because the floor of the room was then made of carpet and the ceiling was wood so the sound could not bounce through the room.
Then onto the best part of the day, in my opinion. We got to go to the Hart Senate Office building and meet Senators Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich. Mark Begich had to go to a meeting so we just got to take a picture with him before he took off, but we go to go into Senator Murkowski’s office for half and hour and talk to her, ask questions and such. We all got individual pictures and signatures from her.
To end the day we went and visited five memorials. These memorials were for World War 2, Vietnam War, the Washington Monument, Lincoln memorial and the Korean War Memorial. These were all very different, but all very touching.
Someone yesterday asked what the subways were like. Subways are a very popular way of transportation, to get in you have to buy a pass, we bought a weekly pass at the beginning of the week so we just continued to use that. To get to the subway, you need to take an escalator underground and use your pass to get into the gate. Then you would find your subway, which is a lot like a train. The doors open for all of 10 – 15 seconds before they close again so if you’re getting on you better hurry! Subways can get up to a speed of 40 mph, so from stop to stop it takes about 2 minutes, then your up to the door again so you don’t get trapped inside. Then back through the gate and up the escalators you go.
As you can tell, we got home very late and have had a long day. More will be posted tomorrow such as pictures, more details on todays activities, a quote etc.
Im off to bed, Goodnight!
Comments
lacy erickson (unauthenticated)
May 7, 2009
hi hope your having fun there ;] ;] ;] ; ]