Today I ventured into Eastern London, Canary Wharf. This is the Wall Street NYC area of London that is beginning to really boom in the economic world. There are skyscrapers (well, sort of, for London at least) and underneath the shiny buildings is mall after mall and shop after shop. The point was to take my High School Skills class on a field trip. Uh yes, I took kids from Dubai, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Spain, and Texas on the train and the tube. Interesting to say the least. We first visited the Dockland Museum. How you must wonder, did we tie this into our class??? Well, there was a Jack the Ripper exhibit which was gruesome. And of course a scaled model of the Old London Bridge which tied math into the trip. Then we
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