African Burial Ground

It all started on an early saturday morning we I woke up at 5 o'clock in the morning to get ready to go on the bus to the african baraial ground with the freshman seminar group. I slept all throughout the bus ride but we arrived in Manhattan, NY around 10 A.M. We started off by Dr. Carr doing the Opening ceremony along with the help of our toor guide. As we looked at the monument I looked in amazement at how detailed the inscriptions on the stues. They were inscriptions from the ancient african civilizations, and some were even from the island country of Haiti. After the getting instruction about the Monument we moved on into the actual museum. Inside the museum we saw a truely uplifting and informative movie about the importance of burying the dead in african culture. After that we went to the bromnx and split up into groups. While in the bronx myself and a group of friends travl;ed to the historic basketball park named rucker park. Some of the best basketball players who have ever playe dthe game played at rucker park, for example Karim Abdul-Jabbar, LeBron James, Ron Artest, Michael Jordan, and many other basketball greats. We left the bronx at around 630 pm and saw a movie on the bus that was very scary. And we arrived back at drew at 1 o'clock in the morning. Upon retrospect I believe that the exp[ierience of visititng the african burial ground has made me a stronger individual and made me a more informed african American and I thank Dr. Carr for bringing me to learn to explore my roots

Christian Nestor