Harlem Trip Malcolm post #1

Yesterday our class and Mrs. Crane's class went on a field trip to Harlem. This trip was a great learning experience for me. I got to see the town the Malcolm X once lived in and how it has changed to what it is today. To start things off, both of the tour guides were great people. Andi Owens and Neal Shoemaker were both creative characters who kept the tour enjoyable by  using their intellectual humor, and past experiences. 

To me, this field trip was a fun and intellectual experience to me at the same time. It was great to get out of the suburbs for the day and adventure into the jungle that many like to call New York.  While there, I was able to visit many historic landmarks and able to see some of the places where Malcolm X use to go. I really enjoyed the museum that we went to, mostly because of the Barack exhibit that they had on display. To me, that exhibit showed just how much he truly meant to every minority in this country.

As I went on throughout the day, I started to realize i was no longer in Jersey. To tell you the truth, i actually enjoyed it a lot. It was so different to see people walking to work, and outside food vendors, it was like a completely different world to me. I've been to the city a bunch of times, but walking around a predominately black community was very surprising, especially due to the fact of what Harlem use to be. It amazed me how much the city was able to pick up it's act and clean up. I defiantly enjoyed just looking around and observing all the buildings and people the most on my trip to Harlem

Below is a link of the tour we took. I would highly recommend this trip to anyone who is interested in seeing the streets Malcolm use to strut across. Even if you are not interseted in Malcolm, it's a great expierence on how much different the city could be. I happened to love this trip and I would love to go on it again.