The Field Trip
<p>Our luxury tour bus showed up near the Rocky statue to transport us to what the world language educator described as an “authentic Spanish lunch” after the museum visit. We had spent a few hours milling around the long halls, avoiding the educator-chaperones, and devising trips to the snack bar. (I hate to admit that I don’t recall any of Kahlo’s paintings.) We started the trip upward northward… As the cross-streets increasingly duplicated the state’s counties, Susquehanna, Lehigh, and the Allegheny, I watched the educators’ eyebrows furrow deep and deeper in a worried frown. It wasn’t the city’s tight cross streets that provoked the teachers to worry, instead it was the startling realization that she was responsible for fifty sheltered, suburban students in the middle of North Philadelphia. For they indeed had chosen an authentic culinary experience in the middle of an equally authentic North Philadelphia neighborhood…</p>
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