Mather School & Castle Island

Hello, we are Jeremy and Aiden.
Today we went to Mather Elementary School, it was the first public elementary school in the US, established in 1639!

We met the kids we have been skyping with. We went to PE and Art with them and showed them movies about us that we made. We shared food with them too. We brought 2 types of salmon, dry meat (caribou) and Agutaq (Eskimo ice cream). Aiden's mom showed them how to make the Agutaq, the kids didn't like to try our food.

Then we left the school and went to Castle Island on a yellow school bus. We had a picnic there. We took a tour of Fort Liberty there! There is cannons, one is called Big Momma and also there is one more that size called Big Momma, there is two Big Momma's. The cannon balls that the small cannons shot were 174 lbs! They went 1 1/2 miles at only a 5 degree angle... that is power.

After the tour we ate lunch and played soccer and football with the kids. It was fun.

The "little" cannons (shot a 174# ball)

On the top of the fort, looking down.

Walking out to the corner of the fort.

Big Momma

The whole group.

Christina, making agutaq.

Mr. Killilea and Mrs. Kempe with Katy and the glass floats she beaded for them.

Me at PE class.

Kaleb and Keilan at Art class.

The school bus.

Sitting at the benches in the fort.

Boston, Day Two: Whale Watching, Paul Revere's House, Old North Church

This is Kaylee and Kiara writing today!

Today, we went whale watching. The boat we were on was called Aurora. We saw 1 menke whale, 7 humpback whales and 6 white-sided Atlantic dolphins. They were acrobatic. Kaylee, Keilan, Dolly Ann, Jeremy, Chris, and Kiara all got seasick.

After whale watching we went to Paul Revere's house. It is more than 300 years old. It is very creaky; the stairs were creaky.  We went to Old North Church where Paul Revere lit two lanterns because the British were coming from the ocean. We went downstairs to the crypt where they stack dead people up to bury them. There were British soldiers from Bunker Hill buried there.

This is Boston from the water when we came back from whale watching.

This is Paul Revere's house.

This is a contract at the Old North Church. It was for fifteen year-old Paul Revere and seven friends to ring the bells at the church on Sundays. That's how Paul knew the church tower could be seen from across the river.

This is a window in the Old North Church.

These are humpback whales breaching the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.

This is the tail of a humpback whale.

This is Castle Island. We're going here tomorrow with our friends from Mather School.

Fenway Park, Museum of Science, Duck tour, and the Cheesecake Factory

This is Blaise and Dolly and we are going to tell you about what we did today in Boston.

It took us about 20 hours to get to Boston from Igiugig. We walked a lot today. Tomorrow we will be walking more than we did today and we will let you know when we do the blog tomorrow.  

The Green Monster has seats on this big wall at Fenway Park.

The stadium, the Boston Red Sox play ball here.

Mickey Mouse at Fenway Park.

The stadium

The red seat marks the longest home run ever hit. Some man got hit by the baseball.  

Kiara, Aiden, Kaleb, Keilan, Kaylee, Dolly, Blaise.

The red flags are every World Series titles and the blue ones are American League Championship titles.

These glass cubes mark six million Jewish people who were killed by Hitler  during the Holocaust.

The state capital of Massachusetts.

We cant remember the name of this bridge. 

Boston from the Charles River. 

The Duck tour and we were on the "Miss Emma Science" which was new. 

Blaise driving the Duck boat by the Joker. 

Blaise again.

Dolly driving.

I am by Josephine Decker

I am the girl who loves to read, the girl who hides behind an 'I don’t care' attitude

I wonder when I think I will be good enough

I hear the crunching of long dried leaves under my foot

I see the words of my story being written down before me

I want to be free

I am the girl who loves to read, the girl who hides behind an 'I don’t care' attitude

I pretend not to care

I feel completely and utterly confused

I touch the comforting abyss of my sleeping dreams

I worry I will not make it

I cry only when it's necessary 

I am the girl who loves to read, the girl who hides behind an 'I don’t care' attitude

I understand the importance of being open-minded

I say follow your dreams and live for yourself

I dream of a better understanding of life

I try to believe in myself

I hope to have a life worth remembering

I am the girl who loves to read, the girl who hides behind an 'I don’t care' attitude.

I am by Blaise Decker

I am by Blaise Decker

I am a guy that likes to do things

I wonder how scientists do dumb things at times.

I hear Tarzan 

I see a monkey that is red with a banana and flying an airplane

I want to know more than I really do

I am a guy that likes do things

I pretend I’m not in school when I’m in school

I feel happy and bored

I touch my game remote

I worry that there will be a zombie apocalypse (and I’m still alive)

I cry …I’m not going to tell you that, I’m a guy remember?

I am a guy that likes to do things

I understand that I can get be too much and don’t know when to shut up

I say you can’t tell me any different on what I already know and believe in

I dream that people will colonize different planets one day 

I hope to live to a very old age

I am a guy that likes to do things