Today, I went with Daniel Mastebowski to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. When I found out that the blog was due of friday of this week, I began to panic because I didn’t think I had anytime in my schedule, but somehow some higher power heard of my struggle and my thursday math class was cancelled. With this beautiful chunk of time now in my schedule I made my way to the MET. When I got there I was surprised to find out that admission wasn’t free so after a fierce back and forth with the cashier, not really, I coughed up a dollar.

Once in there, I was admiring all the statues and artwork. For the blog I need a picture of me in the museum so while I was standing next to a photograph of a couple on a date, and employee at the MET started yelling at me about the how everything is delicate and how he would personally sue me if I broke anything. After a second of confusion I realized that the man didn’t even work there so I started to touch as many things as possible in front of him. When Daniel and I saw him starting to talk to an actual employee we left rapidly.

I am actually really glad we were assigned to explore New York City because it reminded me of all the good memories of me visiting a variety of places on school trips back in the day. Now I am really considering going to the Museum of Moving Images with my friends after school one day. Another thing I learned today was that Alexander the great was a total badass, there was one war in which his army of 40,000 was able to outsmart and entire Persian army of 250,000. Most leader would not be able to win this kind of battle but Alexander the Great used techniques such as the hammer and anvil technique where the opposing army would be attacked from two fronts. In addition to this, even when his own army outnumbered the opposing army, he would never surprise attack them when they weren’t ready because they viewed that as a cowardly way to fight.