Field trip --> Ana Garcés.

Hi everyone!

Definitely is really difficult to say anything that you haven’t pointed out yet!

Well, I’ll give it a try!

The field trip was fantastic. We all had fun and enjoyed this different view of Boston. I have been trying to look for a picture of the Harbor when it was dirty and stinky, but apparently everybody wanted to forget those times and I have not found a single picture like that. Instead, there are tons of beautiful pictures of the Harbor and the islands, and of course, tons of pics of the cleaning process.

Here you got some of the pictures of the Harbor done on our field trip:

(I really love & enjoy sailing; this seemed a lovely place to practice!!!!!)

(This might be too big to practice with)

I was really impressed by the fact that the airport was placed in an island. Not anymore, as they linked it to the town, but I was shocked by the fact that huge airplanes had to land on such tiny space. Then I realized that we are in America and everything is bigger (just take a look to the food, everything is super size!), so it was not that big deal, but I was still impressed. I looked it up and it covers 2,384 acres (thanks Wikipedia). If you still do not get along with the American's measures let me tell you that 2,384 acres are 9.6487 square km. Also the fact that the airport is so close to the city impressed me. While we were shippimg we saw several planes quite close, it was the first time that I had the chance to see a plane flying so close!!! That was cool!!!

I also wanted to see the change that Boston has gone trough thanks to the "Big Dig". As I was not able to picture in my head how awful had to be the city before restructuration I looked it up and found this comparison thab in my opinion is perfect to appreciate the change that the city has suffered.

The pollution and noise had to been terrible. Know I do understand why they avoided windows!!!!

Well, hope that these pictures help you to understand in a better way the evolution of the city.

See you all on Wednesday!!!

Enjoy!!!!!!!!

Ana Garcés Rubio.