A rainy, cold and cultural day. (chronicle)
We all woke up at 6:30, with no high expectations. The Texas Capitol
building was just a government facility to us. Finally, the bus dropped us
off in the rainy sidewalk, which we walked for about five minutes. When we
entered, it was like we had never seen any modern facility; our jaws
dropped the moment we laid eyes on the architecture, the paintings, and
most of all, the history that every section of the Congress had. We were all
senseless visitors at first, not knowing all the stuff that was about to change
our perspective on the “Redneck-Freedom” America that we all dream
about. Hold on, the tour’s about to start.
Tim, the tour guide, started with basic
knowledge on Texas history, he warned us that
he did not possess much information about the
Mexican-American war so that we wouldn’t
complain about any “False” information. We
saw two statues that seemed mighty iconic to
the building since they each had their own
fence. On the left side Sam Houston, the first
governor in Texas, later being governor of
Tennessee and Texas. On the right side, is
Steven F. Austin, who also was a Texan
politician and a war hero. Sam Houston was
called with a nickname “The Raven”, he later
died in 1863. The Congress has a system of
political paintings in which each new governor
Austin Church
takes the nearest spot, sliding each painting a
place back until the paintings reach the ceiling in a spiral manner. The
house of Senates is very well organized, yet to overrated in our opinion.
There is absolutely no need to maintain a “Silence” rule just because a
whiny politician can’t stand either being
“This chamber is so tall that you could bring
corrected or interrupted. The House of
the Statue of Liberty and it would fit inside.”
Representatives was very interesting,
---Capitol Tour Guide
with 150 seats, having a much more
flexible system than the house of Senators. A lot of Hispanic influence can
be observed, lots of streets are not written in English, statues and paintings
with classic Mustache and Poncho resembling a Mexican man.
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