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 […]
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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
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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
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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
Today was another busy day. We marched in a parade to promote international friendship and peace. Everyone was very friendly and we were all glad to help. On the bus ride in the morning to the parade area, we worked on teaching the Chinese kids American folk songs. It was nice and the kids were
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After a bus ride of Chinese and American sing-a-longs (Mo Li Hua and Wheels on the Bus), we made it to Brooklyn for the International Day of Friendship Parade. Having arrived early, we ran across the street to get coffee and a snack at Junior’s Cheesecake. Then we were checked in to the parade and managed
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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
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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
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Scouring Central Park was both exhausting and invigorating. As we walked through, it was nice to see the park but even better was the pictures we had to take in order to document the scavenger hunt. The pictures with the students were definitely the best way to commemorate our time there and made each place
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