Dc Trip

8th Grade D. C. Trip

On Sunday, September 30th, the eighth grade left for our annual Washington D.C. trip. This trip included the new African American History & Culture Museum.  The trip had a lot of build-up, especially about the lobbying opportunity to talk to our senators and congressmen about two issues: climate change and gun control. Two issues that are very relevant in today’s politics especially with millennials. But I wanted to know what other 8th graders in FCS thought of DC. Devlin Kolimago in eighth grade said that it was “fun and tiring, we had to walk a lot and the food was good just expensive.” “Lobbying was good and fun but it wasn’t arguing, it was more of agreeing.” Next I asked Dev Gupta, also in eighth grade. He said it was a lot of fun. He had already been to DC before so I asked him what he thought of the…


Eighth Grade Trip to Washington

On Friday September 24th the eighth grade took a trip to the capital of the United States, Washington DC. The trip took the eighth grade to many monuments, memorials and museums throughout the city. The afternoon of the first day included a visit to the National History Museum, meant to celebrate American Culture and the Aerospace Museum, detailing the World’s Exploration of Space. That night we visited the World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War Memorials. The standout of these three was the Vietnam Memorial, a wall with plaques commemorating the fallen soldiers. There was no grandeur, no statues just a wall of names. This reflects the horrific losses of human life in war in contrast to the other memorials celebrating the magnificent soldier who pulled through and won the day, because not all war stories end like that. Many start with a man walking into the field of…


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