The Smithsonian is a HUGE museum. I dont think I realized the extent of how vast it is. they have 13 buildings. Each huge in itself. We had the chance to go to the Air and Space Museum today and in the past couple days we have gone to the American History and Natural History [...]
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Air and Space
Posted in TJ Rosetti on January 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Inaugural Concert
Posted in TJ Rosetti on January 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We had the opportunity to attend the Inaugural Concert. This was pretty much a big party to bring in the New presidency. Usually its a smaller with a couple big names showing up. This time was Epic. There were tons of bands and big named speakers such as Martin Luther King III, Densel Washington, George [...]
Newseum and Liberal Hippies
Posted in TJ Rosetti on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today we began with the Newseum. This is a museum completely dedicated to the history and techniques of the media. It had alot of exhibits, each dedicated t a different part of news or a major point in our histroy that was affected by the media. One section was completely dedicated to September 11th. They [...]
Museums and Bathroom Volcanos
Posted in TJ Rosetti on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We started off the day with the usual Auditorium session. We then headed for the Smithsonian for the American History Museum. It was pretty cool and had helicopters, lincoln’s belongings and peices of the world trade centers. After that we moved over to the Natural History Museum. This was my favortite. There were so many [...]
THE CAPITAL
Posted in TJ Rosetti on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I SAW JOHN MCCAIN AND DICK CHENEY! Oh yea and I also saw John Kerry, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Harry Reid. I thought I would start this with some pizaz. We originally had another session in the auditorium planned but things changed. Kara had obtained some tickets to sit in on a session of [...]
Wednesday-Ted Koppel and the Algerian Embassy
Posted in TJ Rosetti on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We started out the day by having the usual auditorium session with special guest Ted Koppel. It was great to hear him speak, but he was not the most exciting speaker we have had. He left alot of time open for questions and with each question he draged on going into depth into each topic. [...]
Tuesday…
Posted in TJ Rosetti on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today we began in the Usual auditorium. C-SPAN began with a Live television recording for one of their shows and included the audience (us as students) to ask questions to guests on the show.Bret Baier was one of the guests and I was able to get a picture with him after the show.
After participating in [...]
Monday..
Posted in TJ Rosetti on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Monday we started with speakers and presentations till about two. Some were interesting..like the special agent with the secret service. Others however, could have been more interesting. The speaker from the smithsonian gave a very long presentation on Paintings of presidents.
Afterwords, we had a bus tour all around DC which was amazing. Me and [...]
Palestinian Protests outside White House
Posted in TJ Rosetti on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First Days in DC..
Posted in TJ Rosetti on January 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I began my trip to Washington with a long bus ride from Olean NY, to Washington DC. I arrived early on Saturday morning when I met up with Matt and headed into Downtown DC. After visiting most of the usual monuments, we found a group of Palestinians marching towards the White House. When we got [...]
