Field Trip!

I don't know about the rest of you, but I thoroughly enjoyed our field trip yesterday! Maybe it was just that the weather was nice and we got to be outside of school or maybe it was something else entirely, but it was just amazing.

Alright, so I'll start with the lecture, since that was first. I was pretty confused about what he was saying, but I think that was mostly because I had to keep trying to keep up with the plot. I still don't have that figured out, maybe it didn't really have much of one? In any case, most of the time I was looking at what the other "real" students were doing (Facebook much?) and fighting against the small amount of sleep I got last night. Don't get me wrong, this guy certainly was interesting, but something about sitting in that big warm lecture hall made me especially tired.


Moving through the day now to lunch. I have one word: noodles! Enough said.

Then came the art museum- this was far and away my favorite part of the day. I'm not always the one most likely to spend hours in an art museum, maybe a couple, but for not excessive amounts of time. However, I found myself wishing we could have stayed even longer. It was so much fun to be able to stand there, up close with all this amazing artwork and just be able to look at it. Not just a quick glance, but truly see it and break it down, maybe notice some things that are not obvious at first glance. I only wish I could have done that with more of the artwork.

I also thought that the art on display was really an interesting spectrum of America. It wasn't just pictures of pie (did anyone find that one, by the way? I missed it) but it was display of people and things that had real meaning and relevance. I'll be honest, some of it was a little disturbing, some was a little disgusting (ahem, rabbit) but a lot of it was very realistic. Some things were more about times in the past, and some was more pertinent for today. In any case, all were solid representations, in their own ways.


Overall, it was an awesome day and I can't wait to see what everyone blogs about next week when we have to write about the artwork! (although did some people do that today?)