Day 2 5/21

I’m still not used to getting up early (especially after staying up late) but hopefully soon I will get in routine. Like yesterday, today our day started at 8:30 in the morning. We reviewed some of our blogs from yesterday. First Krista showed us hers, then Katie. I didn’t want to show mine because I felt like I did everything wrong after seeing Krista’s and Katie’s. However after much persuading by Krista, I showed everyone my blog and it went better then I attended.

My visitors pass for the tour

The plan for the day was for us to go to the NYS Museum, do an Architecture walk, and go to the locks of Troy. However in the end we only went to the NYS Museum. At the museum we went behind the scenes of everything. We got the chance to see and learn about many of the artifacts that weren’t yet on display. Although as time went on it became harder to focus. Standing in the same spot for a long duration didn’t help the situation, if we were able to sit or move more I would have focused better. Although everyone speaking spoke about something interesting, but as the day went on it became harder to pay attention.

  

We next were able to walk around the museum. We broke up into groups and were assigned three areas to research and gather information on for a future presentation. Pamela and I were assigned Minerals of New York, Birds of New York and Longhouse. Both the Birds of New York and Minerals of New York were similar in that they all varied in each area. The environment is what controlled what birds would live where and where certain minerals would be located. I didn’t realize the huge variety of birds and minerals in New York. We then went to the long house exhibit, in elementary school I learned a lot about the Iroquois and other Native Americans. I even remember taking a field trip to a long house in I think third or fourth grade. Much of what I saw was stuff I learned but going to the exhibit helped me remember what Ilearned back in elementary school.                                                                                                                                                 

After we finished looking at our three exhibits we wondered through the rest of the museum. My favorite exhibit was the World Trade Center exhibit, to me it was very moving. Seeing the fire truck  (seen above) from the scene just sends chills through you and reading the timeline from the day just made me realize how fast it really happened.  Although the moment was ruined by the children who were there on the field trip who were just extremely rude. They were lucky I didn’t yell at them. When our time was up we meet up at 3 and enjoyed the carousal. Putting an end to the second day of Summer on the Hudson.