Today after breakfast, we loaded the bus with our suitcases and headed for the JFK Library and Museum. Our tour guide, Sam, showed us that there is a lot more to John Fitzgerald Kennedy than meets the eye. For example, we discovered that his boat was rammed by a Japanese destroyer when he was in the Navy. We also learned about his childhood and that he lived in London for a while when his father served as the U.S ambassador to the U.K.Something that most people don't know about him is that he did not intend to go into politics. He thought he wanted to be a teacher or an educator of some sort. All these small details about his life contributed greatly to our understanding of our former President.
After we left the JFK Library, we drove to Plymouth Plantation and traveled back in time to the 17th century, where the old English settlement, Plymouth, had been accurately recreate along with a Wampanoag village. We had some free time to explore the customs of the two settlements. First, we wondered around the English village, talking to different Pilgrims, each with a different and unique story. After, we headed to the Wampanoag village over a dusty path through the woods. There we talked to descendants of the Wampanoag people, as they explained their way of life to us. After a long day, we ate dinner, visited the Plymouth Rock, and celebrated Victor's birthday. Then we departed for our next stay, the Cape Cod Sea Camps in Brewster.
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