On February 25, 2010, I went (with a couple of friends and my dad) to the capitol in Topeka to be a page for Mike Kiegrel.
Feb. 24, David and Angela Winkler and I spent the night over at my Grandma's house. Feb. 25, we rose a little after 6:00 am to get ready for dad to come pick us up to go to the capitol. When we got there we took a restroom break and then headed to the page supervisors office. After that we went and sat around for a little bit and then we all went to the balcony on the Floor. We were sworn in and given some instructions etc. and then she, our page supervisor, took us to look at some of the places we might have to go for our representatives. Then we went to where we would be sitting and she showed us some things there. Then we were taken to a room where we paired up with our representative and waited to get our picture taken with the governor! =) After that Mike took us to the visitors' center and he bought us some pins. Mine is a sunflower. Then we went to his office for a little while. After that we went to the balcony of the senate floor. Then we went and waited around until we went onto the floor to wait for the house to convene. Our first errand for Mike was to get coffee and a muffin. Then we sat and waited around for a while until he needed us to take some papers to someone all the way in the basement! He only needed us for a couple of things that day. Then we sat and waited around listening to them discuss the bill about smoking (and it got passed by the way). Then after a while, our page supervisor went and asked Mike about lunch and Dad, David, Angela and I went and ate pizza. We never did see Mike after that because they were still in session when we left! =D
Anyway, it was a fun experience and I would definitely do it again! We are each going to get paid $3.00 for our work! =D
Thursday night, I got sick...the whole fam. has been sick. Fortunately, I waited to get sick until AFTER going to the capitol and I am publicly thanking God for allowing that to happen!
Well, bye for now!
And, I can upload pictures if anyone is interested...so please leave comments and I can upload pictures soon!!
Luanna
