HISTORY!

January 17, 2009

    Washington, DC is filled with so much history.  Today I experienced so much of that.  It's amazing how old things are in Washington DC.  We started off today going to Georgetown University.  It is one of the oldest universities in DC, but yet it is still a great and exciting school to be at.  In one of the buildings there are these steps that thirteen pesidents have walked like Abraham Lincoln.  So I had a great time experiencing the history at Georgetown University!

    We then went to the Capital Hill.  We saw the US Capital, that is where the members of congress make laws.  We also saw the Supreme Court that is where you change laws, and people can bring their case to the supreme court if they don't like what a judge's choice was in their own state. Lastly we saw the Library of Congress that is where law books are.  So Congress, when they need help understanding a law, they could just go right across the street.  Nowadays,  they can just use the internet. Then we went in the back of the US Capital where Barack Obama is going to say his speech Tuesday.  It was incredible how many people were there even when the inauguration wasn't happening yet, so many people were just taking pictures.

    Lastly we finally went to the Air and Space museum.  This is a place where you can learn about  planes and rockets, etc. first started out.  There were a lot of famous and great people who made planes and flew them, but I hadn't found one African American yet.  Then we went to a section where they had lots of black people that flew a lot of planes. This is great history because without planes it would be hard to get to far away distances.  I had a great day with HISTORY!

 I CANT WAIT TO SEE MORE HISTORY TOMORROW!

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