15.6.09 Bryant Park

15.06.2009

Bryant Park

It is already 12:10 p.m. on 16th of June, but I think I will make the note of today anyway. We had school, which was really good. We were three groups, and each group got a different chapter from "The Tipping Point" to prepare, and then we presented it to the other groups. After that we had the test, which was pretty easy for me. After school we (Harald and me) went to the American Museum of Natural History, which is a really huge museum. They had everything about life and the earth there. We have seen the biggest skeleton of a dinosaur and a lot of other dinosaurs. It was very impressive to touch bones, that have been a living animal 110 million years ago. The way, they presented the exhibits was great, because there were many very interesting text about different questions that you may have in mind, but also things that you would never think about. It was very easy to understand and never boring. They also had all kinds of stuffed animals, from rabbits to elephants. Then there was a lot about early humans from different kontinents, how they made their tools and what else is im portant about them. But the most interesting part of the museum was the collection of meteorits, that were found on earth. They had a meteorit, which was a 34-tons-block of iron, which was very impressive. At the end they had a big section about the Big Bang, the formation of the earth and about other stars and the universe. Because the museum was so big, we didn't see everything, so maybe I will go there another day (It is free!). 
On our way to the museum we looked at the map, when a man came to help us. He told me, that he had been in Germany and lived in Hamburg and in Nienburg for several years.
After the museum I went home to take my rain jacket, because it was raining and it seemed not to stop (It actually stopped!) and then we met with Harald and David at Bryant Park, because there was an open-air-movie-event. They showed the movie "The Sting" from 1973. The atmosphere was great, because there were hundreds of people watching the film in a park, surrounded by big illuminated houses. The movie itself was not very good for us, because we were not able to understand more than 40%. The sound echoed on the houses and they were speaking so fast, that we had no chance to follow the plot. So we went to a Mexican bar to drink a beer (although I'm not 21 yet) and then went home. In the subway I was very tired and nearly fell asleep several times. 
Always when I'm in the subway I read more of "The Tipping Point" and I'm already on page 130. It is very exciting with many interesting examples, so it's a great book!