NYC Trip

                Today instead of going to school today and attending Human Geography, I got to go to NYC and look at art. You may say, “James, isn’t skipping school bad? And don’t you just make fun of the art that you see the whole time you’re there?”. The answer to both of those questions is yes and yes. After getting up at 5:00, I got dressed and left the house. On the way to school me and my dad stopped at Wawa to get breakfast and bumped into of the guys that are in my art class and also attending the field trip. When I got on the bus, I sat around for a little bit and ate my breakfast while everyone waited for all of the attendees of our field trip to get on the bus. We got to pick our seats, and there was only one other guys freshman that I knew (who didn’t sit next to me) so I sat next to my chaperone for the trip. On the way there we organized our groups. I got asked to be in a group by a girl that I sit with at lunch, and I joined. Unfortunately, there was no guys in the group so I just spent the day walking around with two of the group members (both freshmen who take AP Human Geo. Sorry Mr. Schick.). This trip was supposed to be educational, and it was, but not to the extent of a normal field trip. The main idea was that you would go around and see art from different cultures, and learn something from it. We visited the Metropolitan Museum of art first. This museum contains lots of old art from a collection of cultures, and the first room was Greek art. There was a Greek bathtub in the room with a description that said Greek bathtubs were eventually turned into coffins for Christians during a certain time period. There was an Australian native room filled with large wood sculptures representing various things, such as avenging the dead. Once we left we went to lunch in a place called the Chelsea marketplace, and I can successfully say that if there were ever a place that can be for millennials, it was that place. The whole setting was intentionally made to look rustic, but had many modern aspects about it, such as tahini. Afterwards we went to the Whitney Museum of modern art, which I highly suggest you don’t go to. I thought modern art was weird, but they made it exponentially weirder. Some of the floors were OK, even if they were weird. One of them called the Dreamland floor, had a sort of virtual experience that seemed like you were dreaming. It actually seemed like a dream, and they had a whole floor below it devoted to the develop of the art in that section. Unfortunately, after this trip I think I’m going to have permanent ‘Nam flashbacks about it because of the things that were on that floor that I’m not privileged to write about on the Internet as a Christian. My group skipped through half of that floor because of how weird it was. After going through the whole museum, we had an extra hour of time which we spent walking on the elevated garden. My group dragged me to a coffee shop, and then we got on a bus and went back to school.