Please read slowly. My student will repeat after you.
On 14 December, our class went on a field trip to the Liberation
War Museum at Agargaon, Dhaka. The trip was planned as
part of our Bangladesh and Global Studies course. Our bus
reached the museum at 10 a.m. A guide was waiting for us.
He welcomed us warmly and took us on a quick tour of the
different galleries and exhibits of the museum. At first we
watched a video clip on our liberation war and our Independence.
There were four permanent galleries that exhibited rare
photographs, documents and newspaper clippings, and objects
used by the freedom fighters and the martyrs of our liberation
war. At "Gallery 2-Our Rights, Our Sacrifices'", our teacher read
out to us the Declaration of Independence by Bangabandhu
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Some other visitors also stopped and
listened to it attentively. As we went inside "Gallery 4-Our
Victory, Our Values'", we fell silent. We were sad as we looked at
the personal belongings of some of our martyred intellectuals
and freedom fighters- a pair of glasses,
a pen, a notebook, a money-bag, a shirt,
and other such things.
We left the museum at 12:30. It was
an experience we would never forget.
