Sunday, March 30, 2014

Day 1 in The Big Apple!

It was our first day in New York City!!!!  It was a full day with a lot of nice things.  At the end of the day, we couldn’t believe we had done all of those things in the same day!

When we arrived in Manhattan, the buildings were so tall and beautiful and amazing. We have never seen buildings like that in our lives.  We started with a city tour.  We met our cool guides who talked to us about the history of the city.  It was like history class, but way cooler because we were actually there!  The real things we were learning about were right in front of us!

We started our tour at the New York Public Library

and walked by Bryant Park and up to Rockefeller Center.  Then we went to Central Park. 

When we were inside the park, we couldn’t believe we were in the middle of the biggest city in America!  We saw the Imagine mosaic

and went to Bethesda Terrace. 


There were church singers there who sang really good all at the same time.  The winter has been so cold, there was some snow still on the ground and it was the first time some of us had seen snow in our lives!

From there we went to St. John’s Cathedral, and then took a walk to Columbia University.  It was huge, and some of us dreamed about going there someday.

We finished our tour by driving around Harlem.  Then we went to lunch in Greenwich Village, where some of us ate sushi, some burgers, and some of us went to a famous pizzeria where they filmed Spiderman!  It wasn’t expensive and there were a lot of people there.  It was a super famous place, but it seemed really normal.

After lunch, we went to the Metropolitan Museum. 

There were so many things there.  We couldn’t stop walking around the galleries to see all the variety of the museum!  They have very famous paintings that you can only see there. 

There was even an Egyptian temple inside.

The hip-hop class was next.   It was super fun, and some people’s favorite part of the day.  It was a very good academy with professional people, so you could feel like a New York artist there!


Finally we went to dinner at The Hard Rock Café.  The food was so yummy, and we could see real things that the Beatles wore and other rockstars owned.  One of the waiters danced for us.  In our countries, no waiters would dance for us. 


After we got some time to walk around Times Square at night.  Some of us didn’t have cash, and we told the street performers that, and they took pictures with us anyway.  They were so nice!  We even saw a horse in the middle of Times Square!  We think those unique and special things only happen in New York.



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