The experience is indescribable to anyone: people cannot understand what it is like to be an honored guest, a non-tourist, a participant in the experience of George Washington's Mount Vernon, to be there in the middle of the night, to watch the sun rise over the Potomac River, to watch a bald eagle making lazy circles in the sky, to silently pray for my nation at the slave memorial, to watch fireflies at Washington's tomb, to walk to the cadence of the fife, to touch the brick and the wood of 18th century White House, and to breathe in the Virginia - all is surreal and magnificent, and I am honored to have been a part of it. | |
For more about my experience at the teacher institute, go to my George Washington and Mount Vernon page.