8.1 Danielle Nicolosi

ON THE ITINERARY FOR GROUP 5 IS:

1. Jamba Juice (Lexington between 86th and 87th)
2. St. Ignacious Church (Park Ave between 83rd and 84th)
3. Marymount High School (5th Ave between 83rd and 84th)
4. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (5th Ave between 82nd 83rd)
5. Central Park (The Great Lawn)
6. The Reservoir

The Day we met with group 5 was a beautiful day, so it was their idea to get some Jamba Juice. I pass this franchise up all the time but have never actually tried it so i was excited about that. The thing i wasn't excited about was waiting on such a LONG line, but it was pretty worth it. I tried the Mango Mantra and it was delicious.

The other thing i was excited about was being on the upper side of Hunter College. I've really never gone past about 71st.

Our next stop was St. Ignacius Church. It was beautiful. This is where our "tour guide" went to church with her school from Kindergarten through 12th grade. The architectural artwork and statues in the church was amazing. It was pretty empty, but we def got to see all the details of the church that way.

After the church our tour guide showed us her high school. When we arrived at Marymount High School, i was a little confused. It appeared to be an apartment building but the she told us it was her school. It was 3 mansions that were connected and donated as a school in the 1900s. It was very gendered, being it's an all girls school.

Our tour guide thought it would be a good idea to go to the Met since it was such a nice day. She figured we would see some of the plaza activity patterns we spoke about in class. When we arrived it was PACKED. I seemed familiar, I'm pretty sure i went there with my family but not that i remember so well. Everyone was sitting on the steps because, "...“people tend to sit most where there are places to sit” (Whyte, 28). Also the sun was mainly where the steps were as oppose to the chairs along the side of the building. As we were leaving the area, there was a group of performers singing songs from the Lion King which cause even more people to flee in this direction since they were great singers.

Since “...sun and grass in the middle of the city make for an enjoyable lunchtime break,” (Whyte, 42) our tour guide suggested us to be flanuer's and go to The Great Lawn in Central Park. There were SO many people jogging, playing sports, and just sitting and relaxing. The weather was ideal for people to want to be outside.

For our final destination we checked out the Reservoir. I love the view of this. Its simply breath-taking. There were many people jogging around it, but we couldn't even imagine jogging on such a hot day.

This was a really cool trip. I went to a lot of places I've never seen before. I also went to places but saw them in a different way because of our tour guide sharing her experiences in these same places I've been as well. It was also interesting to see all the things we've talked about in class come together at the same time in different places. i really enjoyed this activity.