Washington, D.C. - Training

I went to Washington, D.C. to discuss global education and meet my Georgia cohort. This experience was amazing on three accounts: 1) Meeting all the awesome teachers who will accompanying me in Georgia. 2) Discussing education with teachers from across the country. 3) Spending an extra day and exploring D.C.

This is Wendy Morales (left), she will be traveling partner from New Jersey. She and I will be traveling to a town called Akhalthiskhe. We will be go teaching with Lela Tsagerishvili (right).

I will be traveling with 11 other teachers from across the country, including Michigan, Alabama, Louisiana, Nevada, South Carolina, Texas, Kansas, Massachusetts, Illinois, New Jersey, and North Carolina.

On Saturday afternoon, I walked around the Washington, D.C. mall and I was saw the Capitol, Washington Monument, White House, Viet Nam Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Korean War Memorial, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, FDR memorial, and the Jefferson Memorial. As I walked around it gave me a moment to reflect on my life and living in the United States. In particular the FDR memorial spoke to me as it talked about the need to be a global citizen and care for humans.

On Sunday, I went to the Holocaust Museum. This was on of the most moving museums I have ever visited. It proved to me that humans can be cruel, brave, caring, and resilient. I was able to hold my composure throughout the museum until one of the last sections where they show the video telling first hand accounts of holocaust. I think this should be a required museum for all citizens of the world to visit, so that it may never happen again. The only picture I was at the end of the museum:

Afterwards, I visited the Hirsch Museum, a modern art museum, at lunch at the Native American Museum, and then visited the Air and Space Museum. 

Visting Washington, D.C. made me reconsider the 8th Grade Boston trip and made me wonder if we should visit our nation's capitol instead.