Recently, select members from Chapman’s Chorus and Art Squad took a trip to Washington D.C. for an experience full of history and memories.

Chapman chorus director Rebecca Rostron said that she wanted her students to have the experience throughout our nation’s capitol.

“Washington is our nation’s capital, but not only that, it has amazing monuments, historical landmarks, and artifacts that everyone should have the opportunity to see,” Rostron said.

Everyone had favorite parts to the trip, including the memorials and monuments.

“I liked getting to see all the things you normally see in pictures or textbooks, but in person instead,” sophomore Carly Rae Blackston said.

“It was cool because there were so many different people of different cultures at every monument we went to,” sophomore Bailey Sumner said.

Others said their favorite part was the unique experiences they got, including singing the National Anthem at the Lincoln Memorial.

“It was an opportunity that any other time we wouldn’t get,” sophomore Corie Solesbe said.

Rostron said that singing at the monument was very important to her.

“The Lincoln Memorial is a monument to liberty and civil right,” Rostron said, “It was significant to sing the our National Anthem in the same location where people in the past (including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Marian Anderson) spoke and sang for freedom.”

For some people their favorite part was just the fact that they were with people they cared about and the memories they made.

“The whole time you’re seeing and experiencing all these things while surrounded by your friends,” sophomore Robbie Hughey said. “That’s what made it even better, being with people you care about in an environment other than school.”