After all the hustle and bustle and excitement and assignments, it was finally time for the weekend! This was the students’ first full weekend in California, and we wanted to take the opportunity to bring them out on some longer field trips.
Our first port of call was to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Started in a 1978 with a one-time gift from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation (David Packard being one of the co-founders of computer giant HP) of US$55 million, the Monterey Bay Aquarium is a showcase for the habitats and sea life of Monterey Bay. There are more than 35,000 creatures representing over 550 species in 34 major galleries, with nearly 200 exhibits in all.
The next weekend, we visited one of the most iconic cities in the world, and a place that you cannot miss if you ever visit Northern California: the city of San Francisco. There is just so much to see and do in San Francisco, that you won’t be able to cover everything in one day, so we had to choose just a few of the more popular attractions for our half day there. Here are some of the things the students did:
Bay Cruise:
Walking on Lombard Street, also known as the crookedest street on earth:
And here’s an obligatory shot of downtown San Francisco:
