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After breakfast we went to the Party Bus and drove to the City again. We called it the Party Bus because we had a cd full of songs (most of them about New York) and sang along with the songs together. It was really fun.
Our guide took us on a boat to watch New York from a different perspective. Today was a sunny day with almost no clouds and a blue sky. It was the perfect weather to get on a boat (you’ll see on the pictures). We sailed past the Statue of Liberty. It was quite a long boat trip so we were able to enjoy the view for a while. There were Chinese people on the boat as well and as soon as the guide told us there was something to see on the right side of the boat they all ran over to watch it. They did the same for the left side. It was fun to watch.

The 9/11 memorial was our next stop. It was amazing. There was a big waterfall and all the names of the people who had died were written on the stone wall to remember them. Some people left flowers. It was beautiful.

We had lunch at a small restaurant and again, the food was amazing. It was now time for Coney Island, where we got a little bit more than an hour of free time to walk around, get in a rollercoaster or swim in the Atlantic Ocean. We went there with the subway (metro). I decided to go swimming with my friends and the water was nice. After that we used the baseball bat (the one our guide brought with him) to write “I love High School” in the sand.

To end our adventure the bus took us to another park with a fountain (it’s where NYU students usually hang out). There was a free play to watch, someone was making music and people were writing or drawing all sorts of things on the ground with chalk.

The bus brought us home and we sang the songs from the cd for the last time. That was it, that was New York. It went by fast, but I enjoyed every minute of it. I had something else to look forward too, meeting my host family.

We wrote all of our names down on a post card as a thank you to Cindy, who was our supervisor. I packed my suitcase and went to bed around 00:00. My alarm clock rang at 2.30 because I had to go to the airport for my flight to Indianapolis.