James Coleman
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Family trip to Ohio4/22/2018 Hi everybody!
This week our host mom decided to spend several days at her parents’ house in Ohio so that we could visit some museums and landmarks nearby. We arrived there on Thursday evening and planned to see the tunnel under Ohio river, where slaves were hiding during the Civil war, on Friday. However, we find out that the tunnels were closed till May, so we followed the plan B. On Friday morning we arrived at the Ohio Air Force museum, where you could learn about the history of aviation, Wright brothers who created the first airplane, see space satellites and rockets, and even walk inside the real Presidents Truman's, Kennedy’s and Johnson’s airplanes. Since I had been always interested in aviation and engineering, it was an extremely exciting day for me. However, the thing that made me laugh and be angry at the same time is that in one of the rooms, where they provided an installation about Igor Sikorsky, Ukrainian (he was born in Kiev) scientist who was the pioneer in helicopter aircraft, they hanged the Ukrainian flag upside down. I am not offended by regular people making mistakes when they talk about my country, but I think that the State museum had no excuse for that. If such thing happened to the American flag, people would get mad! So I went to the Info desk and politely asked the administration to fix this problem and I really hope, they listened to me. So, the next time when you visit this museum, text me whether the Ukrainian flag was eventually hanged right or no:) After that, we visited some other beautiful places like the parachute museum, the beautiful cemetery where the Wright family was buried, the Wrights’ bicycle shop where they worked before they started creating the airplanes, and the next day we attended the Native American History museum. All those places are extremely lovely and I highly recommend you to go there one day. Unfortunately, to go on this trip I had to skip the choir contest I’d been preparing for, but I think this amazing family trip totally worth that.
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