My East River Reflections
On that day we went to the South Street Seaport Museum. As usual we took the train and had to read our books, which no one wanted to do, we would have preferred talking. When we got out of the subway and started walking we saw a big building and Rob said "Here we are" and we looked at him because he was talking about the other door next to the building that was small in comparison. At first we couldn't get in and had to go through the back, and even then we still could not get in, I think about 15 minutes later we finally got in.
When we got inside, there was 4 long tables about 4 chairs on each side, each wall was covered in cardboard and on each cardboard was a Famous African American person's picture with captions underneath. First Ann wrote the vocabulary words on the "board" that she had brought with her. Then after we took notes, I think it was time to eat. As usual I didn't bring anything to eat so I was bored and hungry, and knew not to give anyone a piece of their food.
After that we had to take notes while Rob read on the overhead. He was speaking about oysters and how back then people ate them all the time and even them in their soup. Back then it felt like people lived for oysters. Someone brought in oysters for us to touch, most of the boys touched it, until we all had to. we were each given an oyster and had to pull them open. After that we had to draw what we saw in the oyster, and label the body parts. Some of them were still alive, some of them had no heart, and the rest had a nasty liquid coming out of them.
The rest of the day was a blurr to me. I can't remembered what happened. I think that we went to do a water quality test and when we came back the door was locked, some of us had our stuff and some of us didn't. Everyone started going crazy, because the people who had their stuff wanted to leave and the people who didn't have their stuff wanted their stuff so they could leave.
I think that we had to wait 10 minutes until someone came and opened the door. We got all our stuff and that was the end of the day.
Judith D
When we got inside, there was 4 long tables about 4 chairs on each side, each wall was covered in cardboard and on each cardboard was a Famous African American person's picture with captions underneath. First Ann wrote the vocabulary words on the "board" that she had brought with her. Then after we took notes, I think it was time to eat. As usual I didn't bring anything to eat so I was bored and hungry, and knew not to give anyone a piece of their food.
After that we had to take notes while Rob read on the overhead. He was speaking about oysters and how back then people ate them all the time and even them in their soup. Back then it felt like people lived for oysters. Someone brought in oysters for us to touch, most of the boys touched it, until we all had to. we were each given an oyster and had to pull them open. After that we had to draw what we saw in the oyster, and label the body parts. Some of them were still alive, some of them had no heart, and the rest had a nasty liquid coming out of them.
The rest of the day was a blurr to me. I can't remembered what happened. I think that we went to do a water quality test and when we came back the door was locked, some of us had our stuff and some of us didn't. Everyone started going crazy, because the people who had their stuff wanted to leave and the people who didn't have their stuff wanted their stuff so they could leave.
I think that we had to wait 10 minutes until someone came and opened the door. We got all our stuff and that was the end of the day.
Judith D
posted by harbor9 at 6:55 AM
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