Honest.
Well, actually, I visited The Henry Ford (Museum) today to see the exhibit they have there this year commemorating the hundred year anniversary of the sinking (in 1912). Before you enter, they give you a boarding pass with the information of one of the actual passengers on the Titanic. Miss Edith Corse Evans was traveling to her home in New York after visiting cousins in Paris. A few days before boarding, a fortune teller warned her to beware of water. At the end of the exhibit, there was a list showing who survived and who didn't. Miss Evans didn't. Both my hosts (Dave and Liz) survived. Interesting...
In case you're thinking, "What kind of mission agency media internship is this?", I earned the break from the office today. We worked all day Saturday running a conference on how to teach ESL (English as a Second Language). Thirty people from local churches came to the SEND campus and we made sure they were fed and happy while a TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) professor from Moody Bible Institute gave them tools on how to teach English. Then on Sunday we spent most of the day at a Chinese church with a man from Hong Kong. So Tuesday was our day off.
If you ever get out to Detroit, make sure to visit The Henry Ford. It's huge. And it's way more than cars. The museum building itself is gigantic. I saw the chair Lincoln was assassinated in and the car JFK was assassinated in (there's more than assassinations, too). Then there's a whole area out back of historic buildings that Ford brought together from all over the country to create Greenfield Village. In one day I visited Noah Webster's home, the Wright brothers bicycle shop, Thomas Alva Edison's lab, and the home where Harvey Firestone (think: tires) grew up. There's also a section where artisans demonstrate skills that aren't often used today: Pottery, tin smithing, weaving, carding, and printing. If you haven't ever seen glass blowing, YOU NEED TO! It blows my mind.
P.S. I have housing in D.C. for the summer. Yay! I'm quite excited that it's all finally settled.
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