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Shuxiao Tao_ MillionTree and Brooklyn Beach

5/18/2014

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Before today, I've been to State Island before, and it was only a drop-by and don’t know why I should go there. Maybe it’s about the free ferry. While today I’m heading there for planting ‘Million’ tress, and eventually we plant over 10 averagely. It has been such a good time for each of us enjoying the every moment, and we get a badge for volunteering work. On the way back to the ferry station, I couldn't help to notice every house are so good at their gardening, with different landscape skills and traits. All these cannot simply learning from textbooks, but to enjoy and learn from your life. Thursday when I was in Williamsburg, people put a sign with three letters on the wall right above their entrance, “live, love, laugh”. What an inspiration motto it is, I can’t tell how many times I've lost the touch to enjoy the sunshine and walking out to the nature.

Later we went to the Floyd Bennett Field at Gateway National Recreation Area, the journey took quite a lot time, because it is at the northeast end of Brooklyn. However, bicycling to the shore and standing there, what is in the eyesight is JFK, Manhattan, Status of Liberty and others. It was not normal to ride a bike on the airport passway and it felt so nice about it. 

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mh
5/21/2014 02:09:38 am

quick correction: floyd bennett field is at the southeast end of brooklyn- not northeast.

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