Day 5 Nov 29 Thurs Boston, MA to Southborough, MA to Connecticut to Long Island all in one day

Day 5 Nov 29 Thurs Boston, MA to Southborough, MA to Connecticut to Long Island all in one day!
Oh my God!! This day was crazy!! We did so much driving!!
This is the day we start taking Hwajin to boarding schools to look at. And we are going to about 2 a day. The poor girl has jet lag so bad she could hardly stay awake to talk to anyone.
My job at this point is to now chaufer and to shoot video of the schools campus and such so that Hwajin can actually remember what she saw later. I didn't mention I don't think that she is only 13. Plus she is as I did mention very jet lagged plus we are taking her to a ton of schools so we want to make sure she can remember it all later. Cause I am not sure that she will.
So we left Boston MA and headed to Southborough, MA to the first school.
Fay School . Well here is where I get introduced to the wonderful world of junior boarding schools and the affluent and elite of america. Our future leaders whose parents can afford to buy their kids an education that everyone deserves but only if you can afford it.
You know I am not knocking it actually. There is a very small part of me that might be a little resentful. BUT here is the big thing...these are really really really great schools with awesome programs!! Truly more than anything else I am sad. Cause I think every child in america deserves the kind of education that these schools give. I would totally send my kids to any of these schools I will be introducing you too. In fact if I have kids I am going to make it a point to try to be rich just so I could send them to one of these schools. I resent the fact that these opportunites are not given to all children that is what I resent. I don't resent the people who send their kids to these schools.
I shot some pics of the campus and went into the town to check out the community and per usual now everything was cute, quaint and locally owned. This was a particularly small town hidden away from things. In fact most of the schools are. If you were driving around you would never know you were driving in around or past anyone of these boarding schools. Especially since so many of them are so remote.
Then we were off to Washington Depot CT and Rumsey HallI suggest if you are really interested in learning about the intesity of these schools go and check out the admissions and academics section of the website I included. Wow. This campus was beautiful but very very very very remote. I have never seen houses and living like this ever in my life. I really don't know what to say about it. I wander in between "hese people are so lucky and they must be so smart to have gotten themselves to this place" to "you live in a world where you have no clue" It was truly truly beautiful school though and very progressive in its thinking. there seemed to be a big push for the students to find their own true full self erxpression whatever it may be. from art to music to math to science.
You know I really had the impression that these schools would really push and train these kids to a life of politics and buisness but really its not at all that and I guess I am glad for that. They are definitly being trained and educated to live in high society though. I can't even imagine the opportunites these kids are going to have that other (and the majority) of kids Don't have. Once again I found my self sad.
The assistant headmaster of this school was a bit of a tool. I don't even want to get into it. I do a great impression of him so if you want to hear it sometime just ask. Despite him though Rumsey Hall was a great school and is on my favorites list already of the schools.
And I don't think there are many pictures of the campus on the website. Really it wouldn't suprise me if there were Secret Service agents in the woods watching us. So they probably want to keep the place secret and remote for a reason...you would understand if you saw some of the houses around there too...it makes me wonder whose house we might have driven by.
THEN WE ARE OFF TO LONG ISLAND!!!
hahahaha this really was a crazy drive. I was driving and Deb was navigating and mapquest missed giving us a whole chunk of highway we needed to take and it was dark and raining and we landed ourselves right in the middle of New York City traffic. However stressful it might have been I really thought it was fun and funny. Deb and I managed to troubleshoot our way out and around and headed in the right direction while Hwajin sat in the back seat and laughed at me and Deb try to get our selves out the the pickle we were in.
We ended up catching a great very of the New York City skyline which I love to see. Over the Throgs Neck Bridge and into Long Island.We finally landed at our hotel at 9pm I think. whew!!!
Loading and unloading really sucked tonight cause we were on the fourth floor through a complicated lobby and it was a drag to have to wheel everything around
Once again a day of great scenery and lots of food for thought about society and how it all works.
Public radio was listened to on and off in all states we crossed into.
Hwajin is holding up ok but it was evidant in her interviews today that she is a bit tired and she is sleeping constantly when we drive. poor kid.
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