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| Volume XXV, Number 10 | July 23, 2004 |
By Emma Brown
NEW YORK, N.Y. — The Brighton middle school students achieving a cumulative GPA of 2.5 for the entire school year earned a trip to New York City. The group traveled to New York from July 5–8.
Upon arrival at New York’s LaGuardia airport the group was greeted by their person tour director which loaded them all up on a motor coach to immediately begin seeing the NYC sites. A sightseeing tour of Upper Manhattan was the first tour on the agenda. The students were able to visit and see places like Times Square, Fifth Avenue, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Central Park, and the United Nations.
Once the first day’s tour ended the group had time for a brief stop at the Novotel hotel to freshen up before they made their way to the Hard Rock Café for dinner. After dinner the students went to the top of the Empire State Building to be awed by the view and beauty of New York City at night.
On Day two the tour took the students on an 8 hour guided trip of Lower Manhattan. They were able to see Battery Park, the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Chinatown, Wall Street, NYC’s Financial District and the most breathtaking stop of all was Ground Zero.
The stop at Ground Zero was very emotional for many of the students and chaperones and it was a time for silence and remembrance. Everyone took pictures of the empty hole in the ground of the new construction on World Trade Center’s building number 7, which is underway. On July 4 the corner stone for the Freedom Tower was laid in the ground. Once finished sometimes around the year 2010, it will be the tallest skyscraper in the world.
After the long eight hour tour the group had dinner together at the Planet Hollywood and had the evening on their own. Day three took place at Rockefeller Center, with a tour of NBC studios and Rockefeller Plaza. The students were able to be in the very studios that shows like Saturday Night Live are produced from.
Seth Randolph and Jacoby Johns were fortunate enough to be at the right place at the right time and were seen in the background of a FOX News production. During the evening the group had dinner together at John’s Pizzeria and took in the Broadway musical “Beauty and the Beast.”
There was a great deal to see in New York in such a short time, but the group definitely made the most of it. It was a very educational trip that was exciting and left great memories for all of the students. Congratulations to those of you that earned a spot on this trip and keep up the hard work.
The following students were part of the NYC trip: Nikki Urbina, Ashley Spencer, Peirson Hunsinger, Amber Craig, Megan Jones, Seth Randolph, Jacoby Johns, Shelby Huff, Heather Peterson, Eric Cypress, Jenna McDuffie, and Damen Bert.
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