Sunday, June 10, 2012

NYC: LIBERTY, PEACE & CHINESE FOOD FOR ALL!



Welcome to the STATUE OF LIBERTY!!!

Let's do a running picture!!!

Walt, Val & Heta match Lady Liberty

Ping & Toshi enjoy the view from the ferry...

We're taking the subway from Battery Park up to Grand Central...

And we all made it! Now we can call ourselves New Yorkers ;)

Time for a visit at the United Nations!

We had a guided audio tour around the galleries, the General Assembly & Security Council


We left the hotel at 8 AM to go see the most popular sightseeing statue in US: The Statue of Liberty. Everyone was excited, and nobody got disappointed. But before going there, we had a little adventure going on a boat. All of this was happening with really nice weather outside. We took the ferry boat to the Liberty Island and had time to walk around, hang out and take jumping pictures in front of the 10 story-high statue. The view of the city was also pretty great from there…

After an awesome morning seeing the beautiful statue and taking pictures, we went to a fun ride in the subway. We stopped at Grand Central Station to eat lunch in the food court and we also had some time to shop there and walk around the huge train station.

Following our list of cool things to do, we went to see the United Nations. There, we had a tour, where we learned about all the member countries and the activities that UN does to help the world from starvation and war and disease. It was cool to go there because a lot of people know of the UN but do not know what the organization actually does.

Since everybody likes shopping, we had some time in SoHo- a neighborhood in Manhattan. After a whole day walking through NYC, everybody was starving, so we headed to Chinatown to eat in a typical Chinese Restaurant over there. Everybody learned how to use chopsticks and of course, we took a lot of pictures. And the last- before going back to the hotel we had some spare time in Chinatown to bargain for cheap I <3 NY t-shirts and other souvenirs (Made in China, of course!).

At the end of the day everyone was really happy and we are having an awesome experience in the “Big Apple” together.

Jonas- Germany
Amanda- Brazil
Titus- Lithuania
Sayuri- Japan







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