Lazy Day

Today marks HALFWAY THROUGH THE PROGRAM!! Wow!! I can't believe we're already halfway through, and I'm very excited for what the rest of my time here will bring.

Today was an open day as well, so we didn't have anything official to do except a tour about TJ and his body-servant/slave Jupiter in CW in the morning and dance at 2PM. We've decided which dances we're performing at closing ceremonies; Haste to the Wedding and the Duke of Kent. Both are a lot of fun, so I'm excited. I skipped a lot today at practice, so that was my exercise for the day.

Other than that, I've been lazing around listening to Joe Iconis music, revising my journal, reading for tomorrow, and thinking about what my next journal will be on. I just finished revising my journal, so I thought it would be a nice time to post some pictures from yesterday's adventures. We went to the site of Lumpkin Slave Jail, which is now a parking lot, the Kanawha Canal, Tredegar Iron Works, and the American Civil War Center. Basically, we debunked the 'South is all agriculture' myth by talking about industry in Richmond (iron works, munitions factories, textile mills, etc). It was a lot of walking, but still good!

The York River...I believe....

An actual picture of me, wow, I'm alive!

RIVER

Not many pictures...probably because the sites we visited weren't really there; the slave jail isn't there anymore, and the canal was just a canal. I should've taken pictures outside Tredegar, but whoops...and we weren't allowed to take pictures inside the Civil War Center. Tomorrow we're going to Somerset Plantation in NC, however, so I'll probably have a lot of pictures to post!!

For my next journal, I'm considering writing about African American women; maybe comparing their status/education by parents/etc to that of white women....I'm not really sure. Going to go formulate that idea now. :D

-Tessa :D