A WONDERFUL PLACE TO VISIT
September 21, 2007 at 10:00 am my Humanities class visit The Alamo in San Antonio, Texas. A tour guide showed us around the place and talk about the history of it. His name is Dr. Winder. It’s an awesome place to tour round. He was talking about how the Alamo got started. There were many interesting things he said about the historical church. It’s the heart of Texas and part of the missions. It was known as Mission San Antonio de Valero in 1836. It’s a historical place that was built in 1724. Many people remember the Alamo by the famous actors as David Crockett, James Bowie, William Travis and also Santa Ana. They people also remember the Alamo as the John Wayne movie. Well this place that I visit is very moving to my culture. Before this was San Antonio it was known as Coahuila. In 1836, the war with the Mexican troops begins. The Alamo was having many troops around country to volunteer. Santa Ana wanted the Tejanos to be a dictator government, but they didn’t want to. The Tejanos wanted to be a federal government. What I learn in the tour that Dr. Winders took us is the John Wayne movie is noting compare to the facts of the Alamo. It is amazing to walk on the grounds of a historical event that took place in my city.

The Espada Aqueduct

My humanities class had to do an essay on a place we visited. There where four places to go. The Espada aqueduct was one of the places. I visited the Mission Espada Aqueduct September 15, 2007 in San Antonio, Texas. It is a National Historical Park about 1 1/2 miles from mission espada park. It’s a really neat place to visit. The water is very shallow and plenty of trees around. It is very grassy. It is made of gravel and rocks. I read that it was built from 1731 to 1740 and it is a 270 foot dam. I believed I heard that it carries water from the San Antonio River to Piedas Creek. It was built to supply irrigation water. They repaired the dam in 1895. I read that it was used back in the days as a system flood gates. The people back then would also use this for bathing and washing. Back then they would call it at acequia marde. It is one of the four dams that were built along the San Antonio River. They still use the dam today. I never realize that there is a aqueduct near the Missin Espada park. It's amazing how there is so much stuff to learn about my city. Taking a walk there is really exciting because you get to see how our background city built things. I wonder what people in our later future think about our stuff that we have today.

On September 7Th, 2007 I went to Mission Espada in the south side of San Antonio. It was a hot sunny day. A tour guide took us around the place. It's a historical place that created in 1700Th. There are remains of the small town in the mission. I saw a beautiful rock structure of a church that they remodel. There were three brass doorbells on top of the church. The church door was very unique arch door. It was made out of wood, it felt very firm when I open the door. It was very exciting to know about our city's older background. I enjoyed listening about how it was created.