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Esthepanie Muro
Scott Wheatley
ENG 101-207
11, February 2015
Art Experience in my First Semester
There are some different school trips that I took in kinder, elementary, middle school,
high school and now at college. School trips are very fun and they become more amusing if your
friends are with you. In a school trip you can meet new people, see new places, and experience
different kinds of weather. There are a lot of place where you can have fun and learn at the same
time. Well for me, there was one specific trip that meant a lot to me and it occurred because I had
the opportunity to take an art class in my first semester at college. That trip was when I went to
the Santa Monica Beach and to the J. Paul Getty Museum in California. It was worth going
because I had a lot of fun, I spend time with my friend and boyfriend, learned a lot of new things,
like how to examine art pieces at the museum, and also received extra credit for my art class.
It was in the middle of my first semester in college, when my art history teacher, Mr.
Martinez, told my classmates and myself that there was a field trip available for us. “In this trip
we would go to J. Paul Getty Museum in Santa Monica, California and if we have time we would
go to Santa Monica beach”, he told us. “The date of the field trip would be Saturday, November
1st, 2014,” he added and “we should meet at the parking lot at 5:00 A.M.” All of us were very
excited about the field trip, especially when he told us that he would give us 300 extra credit
points if we went, we more than excited. We paid the necessary money to be sure that we would
have a sit in the bus. When I did it I felt very excited, I was only thinking I how I would do it the
best of my school trips. I almost jump when the secretary gave me the receipt of my payment, I
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just yelled my boyfriend, “O.M.G! We would go to Santa Monica together!” and the lady from
the office just look at me and smile. The day of the trip seemed to be so far, we felt that the time
passed slowly. After waiting so long for the big day to arrive, the day finally came, my boyfriend
and I wake up at 4 o’clock in the morning. I felt that I didn’t sleep because it was so early. Sleep
did not stop me for feeling so excited. It was 4:45 A.M. and we arrived to the parking lot. We
saw the bus and go up the stairs of it. Our friends Memo, a short and skinny man with short hair
and dark eyes, and Mary a short girl with long hair and brown eyes told us “Sit next to us”. There
were two empty seats next to them so my boyfriend, a tall and short hair, and I sit there. The
clock was at 5:00 in the morning and Mr. Martinez said, “We would wait 5 more minutes and we
would start our way to Santa Monica”. I was very excited I just want to get there as soon as
possible. It would be my first school field trip with my boyfriend and also my first trip in college.
The others school trips that I had before were when I was too young and without boyfriend.
After the five minutes, the bus started to move. Mr. Martinez started to take attendance, “Randy,
Marisol, Guillermo, Saraene …” he started to name. Before we hit the freeway, we had to pick
up more students because they lived in Somerton, so we wait them for like 15 minutes. After
hitting the road for two hours, we had to stop at Indio. We stopped at a gas station to eat and rest.
I wasn’t hungry, I felt my stomach full, and so I decided to buy just some chips and juice. After
20 minutes, we got into the bus again to continue our way to Santa Monica. We were very
excited to get there but something bad happen, when we got in to L.A, Unfortunately, the road
was close. “We would not have time to go to Santa Monica Beach”, Mr. Martinez said. As soon
as we heard that, all of us were very sad, our excitement towards the trip decreased. “But why,
we can go a little bit of time to both parts, we were waiting for this trip for days and days”, we
said. “Our way to the museum would take more time than we planned to”, Mr. Martinez added.
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My friends and my boyfriend told me, “We would do something to convince him to go to Santa
Monica Beach”, I just smiled.
After hours and hours of waiting, we arrived to our destination. It feels so excited that
we forgot that we would not go to the beach. The place was very nice, the weather felt so
different than ours, and we saw new people. We took a train to get to the museum part of the
museum where all the art pieces were. The train was very cool, it was my first time in a train,
and it did not feel different than be in a simple car. I like the train just because we had fun, we
were saying jokes, and the most amazing thing of being in a train was that we can saw all the
nature around us. The museum was very big as if we would never finish seeing all the things that
it had, and at the same time it looked amazing and interesting. “We would get in to groups of
four to walk around the whole museum”, Mr. Martinez told us. Mary, Memo, my boyfriend, and
I got in one group and began our exploration around the immense and wonderful museum. “Look
that poster”, my boyfriend said. “There is an exposition of our favorite artist”, I told them almost
yelling. So we started in the building where the art pieces of our favorite painter were, Peter Paul
Rubens. Rubens was our favorite artist because he painted thick humans figures, but the humans
seemed very perfect. We like how good he did his work. We saw some of his paintings in the art
class using an art history book. When we entered into the building, we saw more things than we
expected. The painting looked more extraordinary in person than in the book, in the book e saw
the paintings too small and we cannot see them perfectly. We spent a lot of time in that building,
appreciating all the art work that our favorite artist had done. We analyzed the texture, colors,
and materials that had been used in every single painting. When we finish seeing all his
paintings, we got out and got into others buildings. We used the elevators and the stairs to
continue to get into more and more buildings to see more art pieces. When we entered into the
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elevator my stomach felt so weird and my legs became tired when I got up and down too many
stairs. Later on, we got very hungry and started to look if we can buy something to eat at the
museum. We found a cafeteria but everything was extremely expensive. My boyfriend and
Memo said, “We should wait to buy something out of the museum”. Like wo and half hours later
my friends, my boyfriend, and I finished seeing all the art pieces that were in the museum. “We
should tell Mr. Martinez that we finished already and ask him if we can go to the beach”, I said
to them. They told me, “You’re right, we should look for him to tell him our idea”. We searched
for Mr. Martinez to ask him about our idea. After five minutes, we finally found him and we ask
if we could go to the beach. “Did you finish looking all the paintings and sculptures?” he asked.
“Yes, we are done”, I said. “Come on Mr. Martinez, let’s go to the beach!” my friends said.
“Well, let’s do something, if you find all your classmates and get at the front door by 3:20 we
would go to the beach”, Mr. Martinez said.
“Let’s go guys! We should find everyone before 3:20 so we would go to the beach”, I
said. After that, we found two of our classmates, “hey if you find the others tell them that we
should meet at the front door before 3:20 to go to the beach”, we told them. We continued
finding more and more students, so by 3:15 everyone was at the front door. I felt so excited
seeing them there; I would go to the Santa Monica beach, which was what I only thought. We
took the train back to the parking lot of the museum and check if the bus driver was at the bus.
We knocked the doors of the bus and the bus drive opened the door of the bus and Mr. Martinez
said, “Let’s go to Santa Monica beach”. The driver started our way to the beach and I felt so
amusing that I was almost jumping in the bus. Finally we arrive to the amazing and incredible
beach. “We should meet here at 6:00”, Mr. Martinez said. We got into groups again and stared
looking all around us. The first thing that I saw was that there were a lot of restaurants at the
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beach and also a fair. I was very exciting seeing all that I was mas first time in that beach and it
would be something that I would remember all my life. We almost run to buy something to eat;
our stomach was almost yelling to us “give me something to eat”. The first place that we saw
was Pieter Burger or something like that, so we decided to eat there. The prices were extremely
expensive and the burgers were smaller than the ones that are at 1 dollar at McDonalds or Jack in
the Box. “Anyway we have to eat something”, I said. We bought one burger and a drink for each
one. After eating, we decided to explore around the beach. The weather was very cold, I was
shaking, I cannot felt my hands anymore, and I felt almost freezing. My boyfriend and I went to
walk around the fair to see what was there. We saw a lot of things like, people selling churros,
ice cream, people at the fair games, and much more. The time passed so fast that we felt that the
hours fly. The clock was 5:55, so we had only five more minutes to be at the beach. We decided
to walk back to the bus to start our way home. “We have to go now”, Mr. Martinez told us. I was
sad about that but at the same time I wanted to get home because I was very tired. We get up into
the bus and my friends, my boyfriend, and I sit at the same seats. Yoselin, one of the students
that were at the trip took attendance. “We are all here”, she said. The bus started to move again.
Behind my boyfriend and me, were two guys. When we had like 15 minutes on the bus they
started to sing. I wanted to sleep but with their strong voice I couldn’t. We finally got home; I
just opened the door, entered into my room, changed my clothes, and got into bed to sleep.
This trip was one of my favorite experiences. I spent an amazing time with my friends,
my boyfriend, teacher, and classmates. This was an incredible day because I meet new people,
make new friends, learn more about art, know my teacher better, and so forth. I would never
forget that day. I have a lot of fun and meet one of my dreams that were going to a school field
trip with my boyfriend. That day would be in my mind forever. Those things that I saw, heard,
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learned, and the experience with all the people in the trip would be something that I would have
in my future.