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On March 9th the entire St. Roch 8th grade class and I took a three day class trip to Washington D.C. St. Roch School decided at the beginning of the school year to try something new and fun with this year’s graduating class. So we worked hard all school year to raise enough money to send our entire class to Washington D.C.
We left very early on a Saturday morning to take a plane to D.C.
The flight took two hours and soon enough we had arrived.
We had a very tight schedule in Washington D.C. Our days were packed with fun and educational experiences from early in the morning to late that evening.
We visited some very famous monuments and museums, such as the Lincoln Memorial, the Pentagon, the Smithsonian Museum, the African American History Museum, the Newseum, and many, many, more places. Our tour guide, Ruth Robins, taught us so much about each of the places we toured and visited.
After those three days in Washington D.C., I felt so knowledgeable and smart.
I came back knowing so many more things than I did when the trip began. Taking this trip was a fun adventure and a memorable way to spend time with my classmates before we graduate and go our separate ways.
Most of the trip we were always busy and on the move, but there were some nice moments where we were able to relax and to spend time together.
I am very grateful to all the kind parents who were our chaperones during this trip, and I want to thank them for keeping us safe while we explored D.C. I’m so thankful that our class was given this opportunity to visit somewhere most of us had never been before and I hope that St. Roch School will make this trip a tradition for all their eighth grade classes.
I can say without a doubt that our trip to our nation’s capital, Washington D.C. was a great experience.
Original photograph caption
Photograph accompanying Laila Alhajeri’s first-person St. Roch travel article.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, Summer 2019.
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