Freshmen-Senior Trip

By Katerina Berezovsky, Class of 2019

 

 

           Two years ago the 9th and 12th graders went on a volunteer trip to the Marshlands Conservancy in Rye, New York. It was a very enlightening, as well as a fun, trip because we were helping out our environment while bonding with the seniors. We all learned how and why our beaches get polluted and the common (and not so common) items that are found washed up on shore. We spent almost two hours cleaning up plastic wrappers, cigarette butts, rope, saran wrap, and other trash off of the beach. Aside from the trash, we also found broken shells and dead skins of various animals, such as horseshoe crabs. We thought that they were trash, but we learned that we should leave wildlife there because nature will run its course. Not only did we find garbage and sea life, but we also found an edible plant called the sea pickle. The sea pickle was a thin pink and green plant that nobody knew was edible until Ben Kahn ate one. After that everyone was eating the pickles! Overall, it was an exciting trip and hopefully we can do something similar in the future.