Visiting Museums

The past two days I have been busy going to museums. Friday morning the 40 ASP students spend the time at the Holocaust Memorial Museum. I was reminded again that I really like museums for the first hour, and after that I'm ready to be done. The Holocaust Museum was well done and made the tragedy of the Nazi regime come to life. I was particularly moved by learning about handicapped people who were killed for study about disease, a long corridor of shoes actually worn by victims, piles of belongings deceived Jews brought when they thought they were going to work camps rather than concentration camps, and seeing what kind of effect the Holocaust had on children.

Last night we had a surprise when on the way to a restaurant we ran into a recent Northwestern grad David . He was a poli sci major who graduated last winter and has been working in DC for about 3 weeks. We were all suprised but Eli and I were excited to see someone we knew here. We hope to get together with him sometime. After supper we walked a block to see the White House. It is a very exciting thing to see pictures from the media and textbooks come to life in front of us and be so easily accessible.

This afternoon three of my roommates-Eli, Christine, Andrea-and I went to the Smithsonian American Art Museum. We enjoyed seeing a special exhibit of called Women of Our Time as well as the hall of America's Presidents and contemporary artwork. The piece of art we are in front of in this picture is a map of the US with TVs in each state portraying things you might see in that state. (from left: me, Christine, Eli, Andrea) Incidentally, just prior to this picture, Eli and I were scolded by an art cop who told us we were standing to close to the art while we were taking a picture of Iowa.

I think I'm pretty much museum-ed out for awhile. Hopefully next week we will see some monuments or other non-museum sights. Despite being wiped out by educational adventures, I was happy to find out I have been accepted to another law school-Creighton. This is good news, but now the decision making process begins...