Each Pono child has their favorite thing about school, and mine is field trips! I love going out into the city and exploring. We take two or three trips a week. There is a wide variety, such as going to a science lab to dissect cow eyeballs, to City Wing Tsun for kung fu, and to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. At the end of every term we have a long trip, when we go to a place that’s farther away and takes more time to get to, like the Statue of Liberty, Philadelphia, and the Cradle of Aviation Museum. We even took a really, really long trip last year to Costa Rica! My personal favorite was when we visited our science teacher, Dr. A, in upstate New York. We had a BBQ lunch (yum!), played badminton (not my best sport, but it was fun!), ran around, caught bugs, and harvested radishes from her garden.

When school was cancelled because of COVID-19, I was really disappointed. We could do math and literature online but not field trips. Or so I thought.

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