Today we spent amazing day in Washington DC.
First place in the morning we visited was World Bank. We got scheduled visit for 10.45 and before going inside of World Bank, we had to pass security and we received special visit name tags. Our first speaker was Lars Thunel, who is vice president and CEO of IFC organization which is part of World Bank. After his speech, we watched little video how did World Bank help in 3 different continents on 3 different projects – bringing drinking water to Philippines, bringing electricity to Cameron and offering loans for people in Peru.
After inspiring video, our next speaker was Carrie Shanahan. She talked more about video we saw and projects that are World Bank working on.
Our last speaker was Rachel Kyte. She is working in Climate change department and she made good point in climate change by splitting us by where we come from and telling us more about who the worst emission gas polluters in the world are and who is actually working on changing that. She also tried to explain how World Bank helps in climate change and other projects in world.
After that, we had nice lunch in World Bank cafeteria and we heard more about one more projects where they are helping developing countries to earn money and sell their products here in different developed countries markets.
After lunch, we went to Holocaust museum. Museum is huge and it talks about World War II. It was hard to see photos and videos from concentration camps and how everything begun.
One sentence I read on the wall really touched my heart:
“Where books are burned, in the end people will be burned.” By Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German Jewish Poet
I saw some really shocking videos about how they were making medical experiments on people from concentration camps and what results of those experiments were. Horrible!! I just wanted to cry at that point.
After museum we had dinner with alumni at place near World Bank. Our cast member’s parents, Brodie, were part of dinner and they welcomed us very nice and prepared us really nice dinner. Thank you.
After dinner (it was already dark outside) we went to see memorial places like Vietnam War memorial wall, Lincoln memorial, Korean War memorial and Washington memorial. Standing there at Vietnam War memorial and thinking what I saw in Holocaust museum, it was just significant. People die and there is nothing good coming from war…any war.
It was also amazing to stand inside Lincoln memorial and really feel cold walls and smell the air.
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