Today we started off by going to the Statue of Liberty and the Ellis Island museum. We took a boat from the mainland to the Statue of Liberty first. At the statue of Liberty we took pictures of the statue and had to pick a specific picture. We then had to say why we liked that picture and what message the picture said. Next we took a boat to the Ellis Island Immigration museum. There we were given a device that gave us each an audio tour of the museum. The audio tours were linear and slow, and didn't get me interested in the subject, so I returned it and looked around the museum myself. Even though the audio tour wasn't the best, I learned so many details that I never learned in my classroom that it was worth it. Most of the people in the museum were tourists or were from a different nationality. There was an archive room where you could see if any of your family members came through Ellis Island. The look on peoples faces when they found a family member in the archives was always happy. I heard a family say that they came there every year as a tradition ever since their grandpa had passed away. The people I did see that were local all had little kids with them, so I think they were just there to teach the kids. They were nicer than what people say New Yorkers are and when I asked them about what it's like to live in New York City they said it was nice, but crowded and hard to sleep at night in the city that never sleeps. When we left the museum we went to the area where the 9/11 memorial is. Our group went to a church a block away or so that had a banner from when Oklahomans came to help with the tragedy that says " To New York City and all the rescuers: keep your spirits up. Oklahoma loves you!" We then saw the memorial and went to the 9/11 museum. This was the first time I had ever been in the museum and I learned much more about the tragedy than I had already known. There were more locals there than there were in the Ellis Island museum. The 9/11 memorial museum and the OKC bombing museum are similar in ways like having a survivor tree, using water, using granite, and having a representation of everyone that had died. I hope to come back so I can see the memorial again.