Well, this three day weekend has been going well so far. On Friday, since it was Independence Day, the buses weren't operating, so we had to call a taxi to go to the mall...
At the mall, we had been planning to watch Wanted, but then we decided against it, in favor of helping my friend find jeans.
We ate lunch at a delicious restaurant named Friendly's and hit the road back to our dorms.
At night, we all got dressed up for a dance at the Robert Purcell. It was really fun.
A good friend of ours stayed over in our dorm, and we were up until 2am in the lobby eating pizza and talking.
This morning we woke up early for the Ithaca Farmer's Market. It was incredible - there were various stores ranging from produce, to florist shops, to places that sell paintings (my friend got one!), and wine shops! Ithaca is famous for its wine!
When we got back to Cornell, we went on a campus tour. We toured through the 7 undergraduate colleges and my favorites, Sage Chapel and Willard Straight Slope. My legs really hurt! After, we had some drinks at the Statler Hotel to cool off after the hot day and seventy-five minute walk.
After dinner (which was amazing as always), twelve of us went on a boat cruise and it was better than I had expected. It was a small, but cute boat, and the tour guide explained to us about the sedimentary rock layers which helped form the gorge. We saw a salt mine, nearby were two peninsulas caving in, where we watched the sunset. It was amazing. When the sun set, the captain turned the boat around and we headed back to the Cayuga Lake shore.
Can't wait till tomorrow - lots of reading and shopping (@ Ithaca Commons) to do! The weekend, as always, was magnificent.
-Jeannie
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2 comments:
Nice post, Jeannie. It sounds like the holiday weekend was a lot of fun. Now you get to focus on the remaining week before you return home to California.
The funny thing is that when you are on a plane coming back on July 12th, I will be heading east with another group of students headed to Providence and Brown University for our final program. So much has gone on in such a short period of time. It has been a long time since you originally interviewed for the chance to attend this program at Cornell. I hope you have found it worthwhile.
I am glad that you and the others went on a campus tour, it gave you a better overall impression of what Cornell has to offer. I hope the other students take the opportunity to learn more about Cornell and its hundreds of programs. It was also impressive that you were able to remember your favorite parts of the campus.
Now Pinole Valley High School has five students who thoroughly understand the campus and can talk intelligently about life in Ithaca. So, it is great that you had this time to explore and learn about this world renowned institution.
Good luck with the last week of class. You really want to take it all in and get the very best out of the trip. Coming back home you will have a vastly different impression of the Bay Area. Of ocurse it is always great to come home and see family. I am sure that you will have a lot to talk about when you get back on Saturday night.
Take care and continued success.
Charles T. Ramsey
School Board Member
West Contra Costa
Unified School District
Jeannie, I'm oftentimes around a lot of successful people and much of their conversations revolve around the parts of the world they want to travel to. When I admonish them about how they're missing out on the wonderments in their own backyards, they all give me those looks like I'm either crazy or I just don't get it.
Your posting, though, tells me that you're seeing some of what I'm pointing people to see. Even though Ithaca is at the far end of our own backyard, it's still home and between the lakes, the campus and even the mall that you all seem to know so intimately, you're becoming aware of and appreciating what's in your own backyard. Bravo.
When you return home in a week, you'll be able to regale your friends and family with tales of adventure and wondrous sites.
And this is where the fun comes in: I'm not suggesting you lie or even embellish your tales but the way you tell the stories and describe these sites can make your listeners feel like they were there right alongside you. Of course, this is yet another test--a test of your ability to use the words you know and to use your own imagination so, when you're telling us these stories, you have us sitting on the edges of our seats awaiting the next set of words coming from your mouth.
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