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7/10/13

I don’t know what to write about today.  I have tried thinking about places to write about for the assignment we got this week.  I haven’t been able to think of a place that has some profound meaning to me.  My mother’s mother was an immigrant from Denmark in the 1930s.  I could write about that place potentially.  I have never been there though, and don’t really have a strong connection to it other than my part of my family originates from there. I have not traveled that much in the US, I have only been as far north as Iowa, as far south and east as Tennessee, and as far west as Colorado.  I have never left the country, so I am definitely not that well traveled.  As far as local places, I have always lived in Springfield, and while it is meaningful to me, I don’t know if I am interested in writing a 4-5 page paper about Springfield.  I do have some family in some of the smaller surrounding towns, but I have even less interest in writing about those places.  I did really enjoy my trip to Colorado that I took.  I went to the Air Force Base on Pikes Peak.  I went with a teacher whose son was in the Air Force Academy.  I have never had any desire to be in the military, but it was still very interesting to see the Academy.  I had also never been to a mountain before, so going to the top of Pike’s Peak was really neat.  Once we got on top I remember looking down and seeing lightning strike below us, which was pretty mind blowing.  I would like to go back to Colorado some time; it seemed like a very beautiful and comfortable place to live.