A little late…
So today I woke up at 5 a.m., earlier than before, but it will probably be the norm now that our days are packed with a heavy schedule. I only say it’s a good day for a power nap because we have had so much to do and keeping your full attention on something for any period of time can be hard. :] The speaker this morning, Wesley Pippert, talked to us about the truth in journalism and getting to the core beneath the facts. He talked a lot about his trips to Israel and dealing with exaggeration in the press. After that there was a little time for shopping, but the excitment for the Newseum barely left me time to get coffee.
The Newseum was one of the best museums I have ever been to in my life. I found it amazingly interesting because history is such an interest of mine and to be able to go through as much as I could that related to U.S. History from B.C. to now was great. My group especially enjoyed the 9/11 area where we were left holding in tears during watching a video of a girl hoping her dad would come home. The museum had so many interesting things, such as documents, literature, TV clips, newspaper pages, ancient objects, and even some of the Berlin Wall. I think I found the books that were kept from anywhere dating back to B.C. to the 1800’s to be one of the most interesting things I saw because I didn’t know most of the things we talked about in class were actually right before my eyes. The Berlin Wall was also intriguing because I had seen small pieces of it, but never huge parts. Also going up to the top floor and taking all the beautiful pictures of the capitol was very nice. I’m mad, though, that I never to go into the souvenir shop, but that will give me more reason to come back next time. :] The theatre where we learned about journalism and war was cool because we had learned a lot about it in school but never got to really think about how the journalists had to deal with the situations.
Overall the day has been amazing and deff fun and I’m very, very, very excited to go to the Smithsonian Museum and to the capitol. :]
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