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Welcome to day 2 of my Trip. Today, Aug 7 2016 is the International Day of Friendship! Who doesn’t love friendship? To celebrate the newfound friendship between us American and Chinese students, we all volunteered at the friendship festival held at Long Island University. The festival’s main event was a parade, featuring flags from over […]

Colorful flags filled the air of Brooklyn as we marched down Fulton Avenue to the Brooklyn City Hall. Today was National Day of Friendship so we volunteered in the parade. When we arrived I was excited to see a Juniors Cheesecake right across the street. Everyone in the area says Juniors is the best cheesecake

Luckily for the scavenger hunt, I was paired with Jean, a NYU student just as committed to seeing all the sights and not moving too fast as I am. Our group moved slowly throughout the park, stopping at every nook and cranny we were curious about. This resulted in some fabulous photos and some peculiar

On Saturday we set out to Central Park armed with only a map of the park and a cryptic set of clues. As an NYU student and a very competitive person in general, I took this challenge quite seriously. Fortunately I was partnered with Jules, who was equally ambitious, and our Chinese friends were also

I had a lot of fun today! The exchange students and the American students met up and went on a trip to Brooklyn. There we volunteered and walked in the annual International Day of Friendship festival. It was the third year since its creation, but I think the festival will carry on the tradition for

Today we piled into the bus and traveled to Brooklyn to participate in the Parade of Nations in celebration of unity and friendship around the world. Despite having lived in New York for the past several years, I hadn’t been to that particular area of Brooklyn before and it was fun to experience a new neighborhood with

Brooklyn celebrated her third annual International Day of Friendship today. Volunteering for such a phenomenal event was exhilerating. We spent the morning preparing for the parade of nations where we each carried a flag of a country around the world. I was honored to carry the flag of Slovakia, the country that my grandparents emigrated

It’s the second day of the 2016 Rainbow Program and we already have so many memories together! Today we all enjoyed the afternoon exploring Central Park and taking over a scavenger hunt that challenged all of us. Along with the exchange students from China we discovered the variety of famous monuments scattered along the park

Chi Chi and I began our day with an alarm clock that went off far too early. Hoping to catch a few minutes until it was absolutely time to get up and head to the bus, we pressed snooze a few more times. We caught the bus just in time as it embarked on its

Today was so much fun!! We met with the exchange students and did a scavenger hunt at Central park. It was hot and muggy, but my group enjoyed the brief wind at Sheep’s Meadow, and ran back to the bus when it started to pour! On the bus ride back, I gave exchange students Ryan