Texas Day 3

We woke up as usual, went to school and had an hour to work on our blogs. We then went with all the Westlake students to the Dallas Museum of Art, where there were expositions on European, Greek and Roman, African, North American,Asian, Indonesian, 20th century, contemporary and other art periods and styles. There were also private collections donated to the museum. The museum layout was a bit confusing, and some of the collections (especially the European one) weren't so impressive, but others, like the African and Indonesian ones, were quite interesting.


After this we went to The Nasher Sculpture Center, which I found interesting. The most impressive statues were one with many people walking as a crowd, and another one with a diagonal pole pointing to the sky, with people walking over it, and others looking up at the top.


Next we went to The 6th Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, where John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated. We listened to an audio guide which told us all about the presidents's life: his family, his election campaign, his policies, his programs, the controversy he caused, the highlights of his career (Cuban Missile Crisis, Nucler Test Ban Agreement, Space Exploration), his personal life, and finally, his assasination. For this, there was a recreation of the sniping spot Lee Harvey Oswald used to shoot JFK, and also pictures of his arrest, proof used in the courts, legal documents, and home made videos filmed by people that attended the event, as well as documentaries. The exhibition went into detail about the several investigations into the assasination, the possibility of a conspiracy, the public suspicion of 1988, and how in the end it was determined that there were 4 shots: one missed, another hit JFK in the neck, went through it, came out through his palm, and hit one of the other politicians in the car, and the last one hit JFK in the head.


Last, went to a basketball at the American Airlines Stadium. The Dallas Mavericks played the New Orleans Hornets in a very intense and quite balanced game. At first, the Hornets started leading 20-13. The match went like that for a time, with the Hornets leading and the Mavs not playing very well. Suddenly, however, the crowd got very excited and the Mavs had a couple of very good plays, scoring several 3-pointers, and leading the game. From there on, the Mavs continued to lead the match, and even if the Hornets managed to make a couple of comebacks, they weren't enough to beat the Mavs, who won 111 to 98.
It was very cool having "percussion" to make noise, and how well everyone reacteds.


We were so tired after the game that we just went home and fell asleep.