On The Road ’08 – Day five

The Oak Ridge/Manhattan Project

Last night, we went to bed at about 11pm. In the beautiful sunrise, I am supposed to wake up at 4:30am. But somehow, my alarm was turned off. That’s how; I am not yet to wake up because of that. Whatever, getting up at about 6am and I need to finish on my journal – day 4. So, it almost took me 2 hours to finish the journal because my mind was like as dead and other students, too. When it was done, we got in the van and took off to Oak Ridge and the Manhattan Project.

Then, we went to the American Museum of Science and Energy. We walked toward the (AMSE) and Anne Nutt was going into getting the tickets. All of us ladies walked into to the restroom, Sophia and I took pictures of the restroom signs. Anne, Sophia, and I were shocked because we never heard that a hay ball was ancient Egypt’s tradition was used as toile paper!

 

So, we got ready to learn about War World II. At first, we went to an active learning place, figuring out the right answers to puzzles. Many of us got right answers but we were little cheat because we asked someone who is a worker at the AMSE. Then, Narelis and Cesar-Gabriel started to get serious for their investigation and Sophia and I were so interested about WWII. Also it was talking about War World II like the Atomic bomb (Little Boy), nuclear science, explanation about why did Japan bombs on the Pearl Harbor, and the US Bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. We are sympathetic to the people who were involved in War World II.

 

In a few minutes later, Narelis was trying to find the right elderly person who was a worker there in AMSE. So, she finally found the right person and asks him to if we can interview with you? He said, “Ooh sure; I am glad that you will interview with me”. Narelis started to ask him questions, beginning with what is your name; his name is William “Bill” Tewes, and he came from New Jersey. He worked at New Jersey then transferred to Tennessee for the work at the Manhattan Project (Y12) during WWII. And he told us a story about his wife; how he met her in the dance club, asked her for a dance, also called her “little Audrey”, and asked her to marry him. They were married in the year of 1947. We felt badly for him because when he talked about his wife, who recently died, he became sad and teary.

 

After that, we were on the way back to the cottage. It took a short time to arrive here from there which was about 45 minutes. And we are very excited and looking forward for tomorrow in Knoxville, Tennessee.