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ilaiThere are some very easy mistakes one can make to get lost in Nashville:
1. Don't carry a map.
2. Decide to find your own way back to your hotel from the heart of Vanderbilt's campus.
3. Wait to return to the hotel until after dark.
4. ...
5. Profit! *smacks self* (Feel free to comment and thwap me)
And so my walk back after the VaNTH site visit was anything but boring. I got a banana shake from Checkers along the way and saw some lightning bugs (i.e. fireflies).
Having nothing else better to do the next day, I went with another VaNTH student to the Country Music Hall of Fame, where we found that country music was better than a lot of J-pop and other stuff they play on the radio nowadays. This was followed by a visit to the Parthenon, a concrete same-scale replica/reproduction of the original. Apparently Nashville and Athens are sister cities, so for its Centennial Fair in 1897 a temporary replica of the Parthenon was constructed. It was so loved that, unlike the rest of the buildings on the fairgrounds, it was not torn down, but rebuilt 23 years later.
1. Don't carry a map.
2. Decide to find your own way back to your hotel from the heart of Vanderbilt's campus.
3. Wait to return to the hotel until after dark.
4. ...
5. Profit! *smacks self* (Feel free to comment and thwap me)
And so my walk back after the VaNTH site visit was anything but boring. I got a banana shake from Checkers along the way and saw some lightning bugs (i.e. fireflies).
Having nothing else better to do the next day, I went with another VaNTH student to the Country Music Hall of Fame, where we found that country music was better than a lot of J-pop and other stuff they play on the radio nowadays. This was followed by a visit to the Parthenon, a concrete same-scale replica/reproduction of the original. Apparently Nashville and Athens are sister cities, so for its Centennial Fair in 1897 a temporary replica of the Parthenon was constructed. It was so loved that, unlike the rest of the buildings on the fairgrounds, it was not torn down, but rebuilt 23 years later.
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Date: 2003-06-25 03:03 pm (UTC)no subject
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