Up the Road

by Lizeth

On Monday the twenty third we went to Manzanar they showed us some pictures and talked to us about the historical site.

The Manzanar trip my whole class took was not really what I expected it to be. They say it is a historical site but they took everything that was there when the Japanese were there. They sold all the barracks but they remodeled everything before they sold it. They have some of the barracks all the places that are around Manzanar. When we went they had a barrack there but it really didn’t really belong to Manzanar anymore it belonged to Big Pine.

They said that later at Manzanar they wanted to have a barrack that was solar powered and that showed how it changed over the years. The barracks that were bathrooms all aren’t there anymore all you see is the plumbing tubes.

All that they have now is plants. They don’t have anything that was there before. The only thing they have now that was there before is the school but it doesn’t look like a school any more they remodeled it so it can have printed pictures of Manzanar and a room that shows how big the barracks were and how they look in the inside. They also have a gift shop inside the old school.
So I liked the Manzanar trip but I just wish that they have more things that were actually there when the Japanese people were there.