So recap! The reason that I have waited so long to post this blog is because upon arriving to the city we were told that we only had to do three blogs while we were here. This was like music to my ears. I was so ecstatic. So on Saturday we Visited the Phillipe's Manor. This house tour was different than any I had taken. First of all, all of the people were dressed up. I found it humerous. Second of all, the tour guides that we had didn't paint the Mr Phillipe to be a saint. He talked about the business he was in, slave trading, and bardering. They knew the names of the slaves, which I though was pretty cool, and each job the slaves had. We found out how they knew all of this. Mr Phillipe did not leave a will behind when he died, therefore an inventory of all of his stuff was taken. This inventory is what helped the researchers find out how each room was set up and each and every slave, worker, and tenant farmer on the property I though that was pretty amazing.
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| Phillipe's Manor |
So Sunday, which was yesterday, was father's day. It was pretty rough for me not to be able to see my dad on father's day, but I talked to him so that made it a little better. We did what is called an architecture rally throughout the city. What is this you may ask? Well pretty much it is a giant scavenger hunt. It was pretty fun, though my legs and feet still hurt because I wore the wrong shoes, I definitely learned my lesson. I will forever wear sneakers when I go out like this. We walked a total of twelve point four miles, and I did it all in flip-flops. Any way, it was still fun. Me and Kassianna were partners and all of the pictures were taken on her tablet so I didn't really have much to choose from out of the pictures that I took. So I just picked a picture with me in it.
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| Me in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral |
Finally today was the day that we went to the Met. This place was huge. I couldn't believe how much was here, and their gift shop was more like a department store. Anyway we were given an assignment to go to the American Wing, we also had to find some stuff that Mrs. Sage donated. Let me tell you, there was a lot. Just on the third floor of the American Wing, there were something like 10 pieces of furniture that Mrs. Sage donated. I thought that was crazy.
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
The picture below shows Michelle posing as the Native American in the statue. I just liked the picture so I put it in :).
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| Can't tell the difference |
The Met was incredible, I have never seen anything like it. There was just so much to do, we couldn't fit it all in. So after we left the Met, we went to lunch down at Battery Park. This park was really close to our next destination, the Museum of American Indians. The exhibits were really small, which kind of upset me because I find Native Americans really interesting. It literally took us 20 to 30 minutes to walk through all of the exhibits.
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| Small Museum about Native Americans |
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| Infinity of Nations |
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| "Land of the People" |
After we left the second museum, we headed back to Barnard to get ready for the Alumnae dinner. It was really nice, the Alumnae that we talked to were so interesting, and interested to hear what we had to say. The restaurant was on 20th street, so we only had about 20 minutes to get ready before we again had to leave the dorms. Ronnye was there again. She is one of the nicest people I have ever met. We all kind of split up so we could talk to the Alumnae, but we ended up talking to Andor for a lot of the night. He was giving us all advice and making fun of us as per usual. Today was a really great day, and tomorrow should be as well. By the way, only two more days until my birthday, which I can't wait for.
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