I’m going to describe our day of Wednesday, 21st. April 1999.
In the morning, we took the bus at Hackley, the school of our rich penfriends
to go to New-York. We were all very excited. The sun was shining and the programme was
full that day.
First we went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We could visit what we wanted.
So we decided to see the collection of Egyptian Art with its numerous sarcophaguses and
its mummies and very nice jewels. Then we marvelled at the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the
Americas. We looked at the death-masks, the wizard’s masks and a lot of beautiful
statuettes. We learnt the customs of those countries.
After that we saw a lot of paintings by the most famous European
painters : Renoir, Vermeer, Van Gogh, Rembrandt...
In the afternoon, we walked across Central Park. It’s a big park in
Manhattan, a quarter of New-York where we can play football and base-ball and run...
We were punctual to see the play at the Broadway Theatre. The title was
‘Miss Saigon’. It was a tragic love-story between an American soldier and a
Vietnamese girl. I found this play very great and very stirring.
After that we had a little free-time and then it was time to eat. So we went to
a restaurant ‘Planet Hollywood’ where we ate a big Cheeseburger with French
fries.
Unfortunately we didn’t meet any stars !
Despite this fact, we went ‘home’ very happy to have had a good day
and very impressed by the buildings.