Miral Rivalta – 2-24-2010 – Getting Tools to City Schools

Today Jason, Chase, Ivo, Bryce and I went with Dennis on a field trip. We went to a public school in the Bronx, which Dennis’s organization gives tools to. We left school at about 2:30 and took the subway uptown to the Bronx. We actually had to take two trains to get to were we needed to go. The total subway ride was about a half an hour long. We took the first part of the subway ride with Naomi, Kayla, Vivian and Nora. When we got off the train, the school was pretty close to the subway. The first thing I noticed was that there were many kids on the streets with their school bags that were probably going home. Jason brought his Flip with him to film the interviews that we were going to do. Dennis also filmed us while walking to and entering the school. When we entered we were pretty surprised at how big and colorful the school was. Dennis introduced us to the assistant principal and then we took the stairs up to the top floor. There were really a lot of stairs!  When we reached the top we met one of the teachers.  She was the art teacher and she was extremely nice to us. We interviewed her.  When we finished, we interviewed one of the students that got the supplies from Dennis’s organization.  She was kind of shy but very nice. After, we thanked both of them and went back downstairs to talk to the parent-teacher coordinator.  We interviewed her also. Interviewing her made me understand a lot of things that I didn’t know about the school, the kids in the school, and the parents. Lastly, we interviewed the assistant principal who we met when we arrived. 

The interviews we did were not too long, but I was definitely surprised by some of the answers that people gave us. Everybody was really nice.  I was extremely happy about it, and I can’t wait to see the interviews once Jason edits them. 

Next week we won’t all meet together, but Ivo and I  will have to meet on our own sometime this week or next.  We have to make a poster, I think.