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D.C. trip- four hour closing ceremony and Riverside Park
Dear readers, I have dropped the ball on finishing documenting my trip on this blog. I was at V.B.S. all last week. Now I will proceed with my blog. The closing ceremony of National History Day was a bit stressful. It began with a parade that lasted about an hour. All the students were supposed…
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D.C trip- Sentors, Supreme Court, and Capitol
Dear readers, on Wednesday we had the opportunity to meet both Missouri senators. These meetings were scheduled by the person in charge of the National History Day in Missouri and were open to all NHD participants from Missouri. We rode the metro to Union Station. This station is an impressive site to see. I don’t…
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D.C. trip- National Museum of American History and National Holocaust Museum
Dear readers, today we didn’t have any History Day commitments. We visited two Museums in D.C. To get to the museums from College Park Maryland (Where we are staying) we took the metro trains. This was a bit of an adventure. The whole time I was terrified that we would miss our stop or not…
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D.C. trip- opening ceremony
Dear readers, this was our first full day away from home. In the morning we sat around quite a bit. (Sorry no photo) We went to Shoppers to purchase provisions. We ate T.V. dinners for lunch, then we went to the University of Maryland Campus to sign into History Day. I got a lanyard. More…
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Trip to D.C.- travel
Dear readers, my mother and I are going to D.C. for National History Day. Yesterday we traveled. My father and brother drove us to the airport in Kansas City. Emotional goodbyes. My mother used a kiosk to register our checked suitcase. This is the place where we transported all our normal clothes. We also had…
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Kit Kat and Jacques YouTube channel
Dear readers, Kit Kat and Jacques have their own YouTube channel. They own and operate it together. Most of the videos they post are of themselves. (Both animals are very self centered you know) They often add hashtags to these videos because it’s fun. Kit Kat and Jacques will sometimes post slideshows of stock photos.…
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Custom Made Purse
Dear readers, recently my mom told me that I needed to get a crossbody purse to prevent theft. She took me to Kohl’s to shop. I didn’t like any of the purses for sale. They were all either too big or too small, most of them had the logo of a designer on them, and…
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Which Jane Austen Books Clash the Most with Modern Sensibilities???
Dear readers, Any book written in the past is going to have certain aspects that clash with modern sensibilities, and Jane Austen’s works are no exception. All of her works are a product of their time and culture. In this post I will rank them in order of how much they clash with modern sensibilities.…
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Visit to the Eisenhower museum
Dear readers, last Saturday my Father and I flew to Abiline, Kansas and visited the Eisenhower museum. We heard about this museum because my uncle took his family there a few months ago. Apparently Elon Musk wasn’t the first person to make electric cars. There was a short movie to watch about D-day. My father…
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Favorite Jane Austen books
Dear readers, in this post I am going to reveal a piece of long-awaited information: my ranking of Jane Austen books from favorite to least favorite. I recently got a collage creating app on my smart phone. I’ve been putting it to good use by making collages of photos of Jane’s works. Samples below: Aren’t…
Life of Lydia 