Walking tour

Today was a very cultural day (and its not even half over! Whoa!). Ok so today was the "senior humanities walking tour". For those who don't know - seniors at Nerinx take a semester class called humanities where we have 3 teachers - the drama teacher (Mrs. Ryan), art teacher (Mr. Hunt), and music teacher (Mr. Bell). We have a couple classes with each in which we learn about their form of art from about the greek period up to modern times. It is a pretty interesting class, at times (depends upon which teacher we have). So today was the big field trip where we go and see stuff around the city. This morning during homeroom we got on busses and headed downtown. First we went to the old cathedral - oooh pretty. My camera was spazzing out though. I got new batteries last night, and for some reason it was acting like the batteries were out of juice. I was quite mad at my camera. I did get it to work sporadically and so I did take some pictures (we have to do a photo essay about this thing later...). Anyway, so after the cathedral we went to the courthouse. We saw Carolyn's dad there. He is hilarious. We all call him Daddy Jackson. He works at the courthouse and arch. We all said hi to him and he hung out with us while we were in the courthouse. The courthouse is a pretty cool building. its pretty. Then we walked over the the wainwright building - the first skyscraper in the u.s.! A whole 10 floors!! woo hoo! Quite amazing. After that we headed over to the old post office. That building is cool but we didn't get to go inside - it is being renovated. It was kinda funny when we were standing on the corner by the post office (we were waiting for our busses to come get us) because I was looking around, and I recognized this one office building and I was wondering why it looked so familiar. I then realized that it is the building that I stare at when I am at the dentist. I stare out the window at that office building because there is nothing to look at in the room and the building has cool carvings etc on it. I got a kick out of that, then Carolyn and I talked to Mr. Bell about the benefit concert (he is gonna be in it) and Mrs. Ryan kept trying to be cool and join in the conversation... hehe. So then we went to Powell Hall. We got to eat Krispy Kremes for free because Krispy Kreme was sponsering the symphony. That was really yummy. There were a lot of old people there as well as a group from a public school and some seniors from DeSmet. The symphony was so amazing! I had never heard them before. I loved it! It was really funny because Mr. Bell was in front of us and he was like a kid in a candy shop. He was so excited and then between songs he would turn around and tell us all kinds of things. hehee, he is hilarious. So that was AWESOME! The music was so beautiful and it was so cool hearing the symphony live. The instruments were all amazing and the conductor was really expressive and funny. Then we went back downtown the the main library and then christ church cathedral (both cool buildings). Then we headed over to union station for lunch (sbarros for me) and then wandering for like a half an hour. That was pretty fun because we walked around, called people, watched the fudge guys, read funny tshirts, and watched the people who were going on the bungee trampoline thingys in the middle of union station. Then we were supposed to go to the old cathedral, but we were running late. So instead of just driving back to Nerinx and not even going to the cathedral, they decide we should drive by it. That was so stupid! No one was really even paying attention, you couldn't really see it, and it was an extra 20 minutes out of the way, making us 10 minutes late for the end of school. good job. oh well. so yeah, that was my cultural day. Now I am at home procrastinating about getting ready to go to work. blah. I dont wanna go tonight. Oh well. I need the money.
ttfn!
(tata for now)