Today was a different day, we changed from battlefields and creeks to visiting Oklahoma University (OU). The campus was amazing and the weather was just perfect. It was in the mid to upper 80's and there was a constant breeze. Mr. Eugene, who works at the Department of Geography ta OU gave us a pass to use the teacher parking and gave us a shirt and hat. He greeted us at the car and made us feel welcome at this big university. The tour that we had was excellent. It felt a little weird looking at colleges when I still don't know where I am going to high school. Our guide, John Paul, is a senior and knew a lot about the history and the facts about OU. All of the students that we saw were very nice and were funny. They were having their student elections so everyone was campaigning. We felt like part of the community.
Then for lunch we went a place called Which Wich. It is like potbelly but better. It was very windy so we had to constantly hold down our things but the sandwiches was amazing.
The rest of our day was different. We went to the Oklahoma City memorial about the bombing on April 19, 1995 at 9:02 am. It was very sad and still hopeful at the same time. The memorial is where the building used to be and then there is a museum next to it. Everything was somber and we were not alive when it happened so I finally felt like I knew about it. We went down and walked on a man made canal and saw a monument thing that showed bigger than life statues of people racing out to stake their claim of land. It was cool to see. We were planning to go to dinner at a Mexican restaurant on the "water front" but it was crowded due to a Taylor Swift concert close by.
Today was fun and we learned a lot about some terrible things that our country went through.
So do you think you would like to go to OU? It is such a nice campus. What did the Stuart alumni say about going to school in Oklahoma?
ReplyDeleteNick, This is Mom in Shelburne. Sounds like the Memorial was quite moving. A foreshadowing of 9-11 in some ways.
ReplyDeleteHappy April Fools! Don't fool Ms. Trenkle!
Sounds like you really enjoyed the campus visit. It's great that so many people were so welcoming and were able to make the campus tour fun for y'all.
ReplyDeleteIsn't that Land Rush Monument phenomenal? The size and scale is amazing. And the detail down to dogs and the equipment on the wagons. I think the size of the monument helps create the intensity and excitement that the settlers must have felt when Oklahoma was opened for the land rush.
Enjoy your last day and squeeze all of the fun and excitement out of it that you can.