Every time is time to learn something new!

There is nothing better than living in a different country and learning more about its history. The United States is one of the largest countries of the world. For people from other countries, like me, the entire history of that country concerns itself with some of the most important facts through the history that we learn in world history books, movies and from general literature.

Living in Lexington, Kentucky gave me a new vision of a specific part of the history of this city, state and country. As a student of Civil Engineering, my classes are all in the engineering buildings, so, I don’t have classes at White Hall. However, my advising conference was there and I spent an entire day in this building. I could never imagine that it was the first men’s dormitory on Campus. I’m living in the Roselle Hall, most called North Hall, and I’m really impressed with the price that first students had to pay for the early White Hall. It’s really cheap compared to nowadays and the price of the housing plan that I have, five dollars? It is almost free!

The Campus is almost everything that I know about Lexington. Since I’ve arrived I have not had enough time to go visit some places like downtown, so I just had a history class reading the article about the Short Street. While I was reading, I was looking on Google Maps to know where every building is and every corner that he was talking about. I also searched the web about the people and I did learn a lot of things! I didn’t even know that Abraham Lincoln was from Kentucky, and now I know the exact house where his wife was born. This is really cool! Now I know about some important figures like Henry Clay, London Ferrill, William "King" Solomon and what they did. During the reading there were a lot of things that I had to search because it was new for me. These things ended up leading me to other readings about US history. An example is when I read about the slave trader Lewis Robards, I went to search about slavery in Kentucky, and it made me read something about the Civil War in the USA.

Learning about the history of the buildings, and consequently about the history of Lexington gave me a new vision of Lexington’s culture and also about the people from here. Short Street is definitely a place that I am going to visit in Lexington.