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A picture’s worth a thousand words. Despite however cliché, cheesy, or over-used that phrase may seem, I learned it to be very true a few months ago. In March I went on a school trip to New York City with my high school and I had an incredible experience. We all took a lot of pictures throughout the trip but none of those pictures can sum up the entire week by itself, much more would need to be said before someone could at least faintly understand the significance of that week. I learned that the phrase, or truism, “A picture’s worth a thousand words” can be very true, due to my experience in New York that week.
I don’t travel very much at all but my parents managed to send me on the trip as a kind of graduation gift, a great traveling experience and the sightseeing part of the trip was amazing. We went toured all over the city, went to see plays, and visited a lot of famous places. I had only seen New York on TV or in pictures but I loved being able to actually go there. Just watching TV or seeing pictures on a screen cannot compare at all to actually standing at the top of the Rockefeller Center and being able to see all of Manhattan and the surrounding area as far as you can see, the same can be said about Times Square. Going to these two places were some of my favorite things that we did, along with seeing the Blue Man Group, going to Chinatown, and walking up and down Fifth Avenue. I had a great time actually being able to see and experience everything for myself, but there are more reasons as to why I loved that trip so much.
During the time that I went on the trip, life had become very stressful for me. I had gotten into the School of Architecture at the University of Houston but due to family issues I wouldn’t be able to go, I desperately needed a job, and I constantly fought with my parents, who were also fighting with each other. I couldn’t do anything on the weekends or spend time with friends or do anything of that nature at all, but so the trip