17.06.09

17.06.2009

Battery Park

Today school was quite good. We had more grammar and made a game (which group would make the most sentences from modules that were given with a specific grammatical construction in 20 minutes), that we almost won. After that we talked more about different behaviors in different cultures, that seem to be very strange to others. After school we (with David and Corina) had lunch (burritos from a Mexican fast food franchise restaurant, which was really really good!) and went to the Brooklyn Heights, a nice neighborhood in Brooklyn that we wanted to see. After that we took the Brooklyn Bridge by foot to the New York Seaport. It has been an important place when most of the people came by steam boats in the last century. Today it is very small. There is a mall for tourists where you can primary buy souvenirs, candy and of course all kinds of food. We then walked along the coast to Battery Park, a big and quite nice park on the sea. There was a volleyball match, where Kaplan students (our school) would play against New Yorkers, that mainly came just from work in the Financial District. But when we arrived, the match was almost over, so we went to another place of the park, where a free concert took place. It was Chuck Brown, who is an African-American jazz guitarist and singer, together with his band. The music was really good, especially when his daughter and his son took the microphone to sing and rap. After the concert we wanted to go to the Mad River bar in Manhattan, where a party for Kaplan students takes place every wednesday. But since I was not 21 yet, they didn't let me in, so we went to a karaoke bar next to it and stayed there for half an hour. In the TV there was an important baseball match, that was, like every other baseball match, really boring but interesting to watch. Then David went to Mad River and Corina and I went home. Now I will just do my homework for tomorrow before going to sleep.