Field Trip To The Brooklyn Bridge

The classmates of Ms. Laura (far right) at the Brooklyn Bridge on June 14, 2013.

By Josh Albarran

NEW YORK - June 14, 2013 - Today on this showering Friday before tonight's school prom, yours truly and the classmates of Ms. Laura Mayer are going to see the Brooklyn Bridge, New York City's largest suspension bridge that opened in 1883 by the family of designer John Roebling. Despite raining outside as we departed from school, Ms. Laura took us down to the subway station from Houston Street to Chambers Street, it was a bumpy ride as I write this report. Then as we walked straight to City Hall, we saw paintings of workers that traditionally displayed around Church St. for the past 30 years.

Finally after we walked straight from the Tree Hall, there it is....the Brooklyn Bridge, not only our class is touring it, there are more than four other tourists from other schools who are going to walk across from Manhattan to Brooklyn. We read the introduction of how the Brooklyn Bridge was made 130 years ago. We entered on the walking lane of the bridge, it was longer as 15 or 25 minutes, or maybe 30. As we got out of Manhattan, we entered the suspender cables, my classmate William "The WB" Bennett was scared looking down on the ground. It's feels like we're on the trenches as my classmate Brandon would say. We took a brief break nearly the middle of the bridge.

The Brooklyn Bridge is New York City's longest suspension bridge that opened 130 years ago.

We can't see the cars move because it was covered by those trench walls, Billy thinks "we can't see it." As we near thorough Governor's Island, we looked at the Statue of Liberty, in which I was there to see Ellis Island four years ago. Now at the middle of the Brooklyn Bridge, we look at the names of the Roebling family who had designed and built this bridge. We're now in Brooklyn thank goodness, but Ms. Laura told us that we now had to walk back to Manhattan, it took more than 40 minutes to cross the bridge. When John Roebling want to built the Brooklyn Bridge in 1870, he wanted to make the largest suspension bridge in the world, his dream came true, even knew he wasn't around when it opened.

In the poem that I posted on my Poems In Person Blogspot page on Thursday about the Brooklyn Bridge "the longer we go, the faster we run." When Ms. Laura's class walked across the Brooklyn Bridge till she sang "Here Come's The Sun" (from The Beatles) when the sun finally come out as we leave the bridge back to Manhattan, today was an wonderful day being on the Brooklyn Bridge.

Read my poem about the Brooklyn Bridge in Poems In Person:
http://poemsinperson.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-brooklyn-bridge.html

Wait just a moment, today was Flag Day in New York City, there were matching bands in uniforms such as those in the American Revolution performing at City Hall to celebrated flags from America's history and great patriotic music as well. I'll like to thank Ms. Laura for taking us to the Brooklyn Bridge on this Friday with just two weeks from our summer vacation.

Josh Albarran reporting.