Week 3 on BootsnAll's travel challenge is about studying and learning abroad. Its a braod question that to answer completely would require you to tell you to read my blog, afterall thats what its all about, what travel has taught me, how its effected my life.
Although I will tell you I have been on a couple trips that were more for research than to vacation or to be a tourist in both Washington DC & Israel but I am going to focus on my trip to the United States Holocaust Museum.
This trip may have never been possible without a little educational intuition and I can't imagine who I would be if I hadn't taken my History of Genocide course at UVU. I was given the opportunity along with several other classmates to spend our spring break traveling to Washington DC to research at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. How could drinking on a beach somewhere compare right?
Now doesn't that picture make you feel great about our generation? Wrapped around a conference table, searching and searching for the documentation each of us spent the week looking for to support our final reseach papers due at the end of the semester.
Okay, so I am totally going to geek out in this post, but seriously would you take a look at these bookshelves? We actually had to be instructed on how to use them since they move, usually you'd have to crank each different row by hand but these were fairly new and if you weren't careful you'd smoosh someone in them, luckily they also have sensors so you couldn't accidentally hurt someone.
Room after room, row after row, shelf after shelf and book after book. Magical. For anyone who knows me well I used to work for a paper company and LOVE the smell of freshly printed paper, book stores, and the inside of antique books. weird right? They just have this one of a kind smell and it causes instand happy nostalgia in my brain... good old olfactory system!
Beautiful! The archives of the USHMM aren't seen too often by the public, not that they are overly restricted but it would have never occured to me to ask for a visit to the archives while wandering through the exhibits...
Lucky me, even luckier that I loved the experience!
What do you geek out about?
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