Spectacular Day

I am looking at the map of Spectacle Island.

 

Hello, everyone. My name is Hung Huynh. I had a great summer at Save The Harbor/Save The Bay this year as a Junior Program Assistant. Yesterday I went to work for Save The Harbor/Save The Bay to help out on the trip to Spectacle Island.

It was a little bit chilly outside when I came to the boat at 9 o'clock, I met my co-workers. We had to wait for the guests. The boat left at 10 o'clock. There were about 300 people on the boat. While the boat was leaving, I talked to the guests about the Harbor.

When we got onto Spectacle Island, we walked around the island. The guests took pictures on the island as we walked on the beach and to to the top of the island. A few children found marbles - and everybody had a good time, including me!

Two children found marbles.

We had lunch at 12 o'clock. After lunch we walked around the island again. We went back to the mainland at 2 o'clock. It was a great day. I am looking forward to working for Save the Harbor next summer. I hope to see you all then.

Hung

Summer Is Over

This summer, I worked at Save The Harbor/ Save The Bay. This is my first job. I very like this job. This job is lead program and education. We talked to the children. We teach children about the animals in the ocean. We worked at Spectacle Island and George's Island. I would like to work in All Access and The Children's Museum. This job help me get experience for work, I met new people. I like to work in the event. Summer is over, goodbye everyone.



We had a wonderful day at Revere Beach.



We caught a big fish at Fishing Tournanment.

George's Island

The children were fishing.

We went to George's Island on Wednesday. That day was very hot. We met all the children at Pavilion Bank. We went to the boat. We talked to the children, we went around the boat to watch children. We arrived to George's Island, we got out of the boat, we had lunch. Some of my workers played sport with children, some of them went to the tunnel. Thi and I were fishing at the dock. We caught four crabs. The children were fishing. The children ask us a lot of questions. They try to get the crab and fish. We left George's Island at 2 pm.

A New Day

He caught a fish.

Yesterday, we worked at The Children's Museum. We started to work at 10 am. We set up two crab traps and fishing rods. I got ocean water by a bucket and then I put water into the container. We caught so much crabs. The children want to fishing, we helped the children. Some of the children want to hold the crabs. They played with the crab. Some of them got scare. A boy caught a fish.

They are holding the crabs.

My co-worker caught two fishes. We got more crabs, we had lunch at 1 pm. We released all the crabs. We changed the water. We caught so much crab. The children were fishing and pulled the traps up. They like to touch the crabs. After that, children helped us to released all the crabs. We left The Children's Museum at 4 pm.

Amazing Children's Museum Adventure

Manny caught a little fish.

Yesterday, we worked at The Children's Museum. It was a good day. We set up crab traps and fishing rods. We taught the kids how to fish. We used new hook called sabikis. They are a special type of hook that has five hooks. We caught so much crabs, we helped the kids fishing. We saw big four striped bass. We tried to catch a striped bass. We used a hot dog for bait.

We almost caught a striped bass.



We caught a striped bass but we can't roll it up, it was very big. We cut fishing line to release that fish. A hook got stuck in that fish. We showed the children the crabs and told them about the crabs. We caught more crab. After that, we released all the crabs, we only caught a fish on that day.

Carson Beach

Testing water.

Last Saturday, I had a event at Carson Beach. The event started at 1pm.  We set up the chairs and table. We told everyone about the clean water. We told them about Carson Beach is clean or not. We told them about another beaches. We introduced our workplace. We tested the ocean at Carson Beach, it is clear. We also tested water bottle and drinking fountain. Both was clear. After that, we cleaned up and went home.

Staff Day

Had a good day.

Hi, guys. Monday was a staff day. All of the staff went to Spectacle Island for party. We met at the docks near the aquarium. We arrived at Spectacle Island at ten forty-five. My co-workers went swimming.  We went to the field to play kickball. My team won the first game. After that, we had lunch. We had hot dogs, chips and cookies. We went back to the field and played the second game again. My co-workers walked around the island. We waited on the dock for the boat to arrive to pick us up. We went to mainland.

Event Day

Swimming battle.

Hello everybody,yesterday I went to M Street Beach for an event. I arrived there at 8 am. I met up with my co-workers at the beach. We set up chairs, tables and umbrellas for the competition. The competitors came and signed up, some signed up online and paid online. The competition was to swim for a mile. The competitors started to swim. The life guards went on a boat to the other side for protection. After they finished their mile I had to tell the competitors to check in. A man got first place and a woman got second place. 

They are paddling.

The next competition was paddling. All of the competitors got ready to paddle. Me and my co-workers stood at the finish line to collect the boards. A man and a woman also won first and second place. After that we had an award ceremony for the winners. After the ceremony, my co-workers and I cleaned up and we went home.

Met People From Different Places

This boy caught a big fish.

Hi, everyone. Today, we worked at the Children's Museum. We had a lot of fun. We brought all the supplies from the Children's Museum. We set up two crab traps. We met a family that are traveling from Korea. They came to the Children's Museum to fish and crab with us yesterday. Today, they came to the Children's Museum again. They were fishing and crabbing. They caught four fish with a rod. They helped us pull up two crab traps. They were so excited. They took a lot of pictures of us. 

This boy was fishing.

We told them about our job. We told them where the crabs came from and how to tell if the crab was male or female. A child in that family caught a big fish by himself. He was happy. We met another family from France. Their child caught a fish. Some of the children saw the crabs and fish. Some of them were fishing. At the end, we threw crabs and fish back to the ocean. 

See you tomorrow, Hung.

Fishing and Crabbing at the Children's Museum

Getting crabs

Yesterday, we worked at Children's Museum. We started to work at 10 am. We put bait in two traps. We threw two traps into the ocean. Ten minutes later, we pulled up a trap. We caught twelve crabs and two little flounder fish. I caught a little crab with the fishing rod. We showed children the crabs, and we had children hold a crab. We taught children how to use the fishing rod. We caught all green crabs. We told the children where the crab came from and how to tell which one is male and which one is female. We threw all the crabs and two fishes back into the ocean. Then, we went home.






  See you guys next time, Hung.

Fishing Tournament

                                                                                      Big smiles, we have a lot of fun .                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Yesterday was cloudy. We had fishing trip in the ocean. At the morning, we arrived to Fan Piers to meet each other. We had two boxes of donuts and two bottles of coffee. It was for breakfast. We went to the dock and we got in the boat. There were five group in five boat. I was in a boat with four people. My group went to the ocean near Long Island, we stayed there and we started fishing, we put a fishing rod with six fishing hook into the ocean. We caught a stripe bass that was twenty two inches, but it wasn't enough size to get it, so we put it back into the ocean. 

We caught a stripe bass.

We went to mainland, Cyndi bought hot chocolate for us. We went back to the ocean, we were fishing, I caught seaweed three times. My teammates and I didn't get any fish at that time. We went back to the dock, we ate lunch, and we took the pictures with everyone. My group was the team that caught a biggest fish, the other group caught thirty little fish, so my group won, we got fishing rods. We have a lot of fun and a great day.

The best sculptures EVER !!!

When I first got to Revere Beach I was really excited and did not know what to expect. At first everything was just so interesting and really cool to see. There was music playing, people performing, samples of different types of food being given away and many different trucks selling food. At first I had to talk about the lobster in the touch tank and had to tell everyone that came by some interesting facts about the lobster. The trick question about the lobster was what color is a lobster's blood? Everyone that we asked said yellow or blue, but the lobster's blood is transparent. Whenever we told them that they always said, "wow" because they all thought that the blood was an actual color.

After I was done talking about the touch tank I went to see all the sculptures that were being built. When I saw the sculpture I was like " OH MY GOD these are beautiful". There were a lot of them and they were all unique in their own way. The most interesting one was the Boston Strong sculpture. It was showing respect to all the people that got injured in the bombing at the Boston Marathon. I found it really nice because they really put a lot of work into the sculpture It was a lot of fun working on this day I hope there are more interesting events to come.

Flash before my eyes!

-Monique

Working At The Boston Children's Museum

Today i caught the first fish at the children's museum. I was so excited to catch my first fish this summer i was starting to loose hope 3 weeks in . The fish i caught today was a small herring about maybe 4-5 inches long . My two co-workers Karrisha and Hung also had some luck out there today too each pulling in a catch for themselves. All together we had 15-20 crabs and 3 fish.

So far i love working at the children's museum this summer. Everyday we have something for the kids and their parents to come look at. Its always a great feeling to teach a kid who's never been fishing before how to fish. Overall had a great day today and hoping to catch some more fish tomorrow!


Mark Rose

An Easy Day

Showing children a crab

Yesterday at the Children's Museum, it was a slow day. We started to take the fishing rods, baits, traps, and some stuff for fishing and crabbing. We used a big fish as baits. Iris cut a fish into many pieces. While she was cutting, suddenly the knife broke, because the fish was frozen. She used the other knife to cut a fish. We put bait onto the fishing rods, we put traps under ocean.

We got only one fish. We caught three crabs and a fish the first time. We showed the crabs and fish to children, and we showed children how to hold the crabs with their hands. We told them which crab is a male and which crab is a female. We had a break for 30 minutes. After that, we caught six crabs in a trap. So many children came to see the crabs, and they asked us a lot of questions. Some of the children were fishing. At the end of the day, we threw all the crabs back into the ocean.

Working at Revere beach

Showing children the crabs, lobsters and starfishes.

Hello, we went to Revere beach on Friday. We brought traps, fishing rods and baits. We also brought the crabs, lobsters and starfishes from when we caught them at South Boston. My co-worker is Annie, she drove us to Revere beach. We brought fishing supplies to the table. We put starfishes, crabs and lobsters inside the bucket filled with ocean water. We showed children the starfishes, crabs and lobsters. There was a camera crew and they video taped me showing children the crabs, lobsters and starfishes.

Taking a picture at Revere beach while having a lot of fun.

After that, we ate lunch, we went to take pictures of sand sculptures. We went to spin a wheel to get prizes. I won a bandage, some of my partner got a water bottle. A lady who worked there gave everyone a water bottle. We got some drinks and played some games. We cleaned our stuff and then we left Revere beach.

Summertime

Having fun in the ocean

Hi. Today, I went work at Spectacle Island. It was hot outside. There were about four hundred people include adults and children. I talked with the children. We tried to go to the top of the island, but we got  tired so we went down. We went swimming. The children played with frisbee in the ocean. We played football in the water. It was very fun, we jumped up while my co-worker took a picture. We went swimming with the children and they tried to caught us. After that, we left the island.

Fun In the Sun At Frisbeach

This week with temperatures hitting the 90s it made for a great week to head over to Spectacle Island. I have never been to Spectacle Island so I was looking forward to a great week of fun in the sun and of course Frisbeach. On Tuesday, alongside Carolyn, Bridget, Manny DeJesus, and Kiauna, I decided to play a game of kickball with Paige Academy. After only about fifteen minutes or so, we decided we had enough of the heat and it was time to head to the water and join the rest of our staff.  That was the right decision because it surely cooled us off.

The All Access crew escaping the heat and cooling off in the water

Today after hearing it was supposed to be the hottest day of the week, I decided to take Frisbeach to the water. When we arrived at Spectacle Island,  we ate our lunch and then headed off to the water to play some frisbees. I started off Frisbeach with help from Thi, Carolyn, Hung, and Karrisha.

Teaching a girl from the Jordan's Boys and Girls club how to throw a frisbee.

We started playing with the new Save the Harbor frisbees with Winthrop Park and Recreation, Jordan's Boys and Girls Club, and with East Boston YMCA. We provided each group with Save the Harbor frisbees. Now Frisbeach will go with them back to their summer programs. Looking forward to more
fun in the sun at Frisbeach!

A girl works on her frisbee throw

So Long from Frisbeach

Frisbee Guy - - aka Davis

A hot day

Today was a hot day, we worked at The Children's Museum, we were fishing and crabbing. We caught so many crabs and fish. We helped the children fish, we put the crabs in the bucket and we showed the children which crab is male and which crab is female. At 1pm, we went to Castle Island in South Boston. It was very hot at South Boston beach. We bought the food to eat for lunch. We saw some children eating and drinking, some of them were crabbing and some of them were swimming. We helped the children catch the crabs and fish. After that, we went to the office, some of my co-workers stayed there to help the children.

I was teaching a child to fish.

                                             

A wonderful day

This is the best team

Yesterday was a rainy day, but while we arrived at the George's Island it stop raining. My internship  was successful. We walked around the island, then we went to the tunnel, the children yelled and the voices echoed. Thi is my co-worker, she caught a crab, some people that went on the ship went into the ocean. We went around the ocean, the ocean is clear, the wind made us feel comfortable. We had a lot of fun. The children saw the new things and they knew more information abut the island.

There have a big field on the island, we played some sports, we played baseball and had really good time. We also played kickball  with the childrens from Roxbury, we divided into team of seven people. The childrens like to play kickball, they had fun while they were playing the game. The game was tied 15-15. That game was amazing. I have a really good time playing with the childrens and my co-workers. That was a wonderful day.

The first day I went to work

I am playing soccer with one of the children from the Idiil group.

Hi, everyone. I am Hung and I am going to be a senior at Madison Park High School this September. Today was my first day working at Save The Harbor/Save The Bay. I gave the children from the Idiil group a picture to draw and I talked to them about what we were going to do today. We visited George's Island; we boarded on the boat, talked to each other.  Some children looked at the sea, while some were playing around. We arrived to George's Island, got off the boat and had lunch.

We went to the field to play soccer and kickball. I played soccer with many of the kids. We also went to the tunnel; the tunnel is a cave and it is very dark inside.  I hit the wall in the tunnel while trying to walk through. I walked around the island and noticed that it was small but it is beautiful. I met new friends and I talked to so many children.

Today was my first day at the island. I felt excited and am enjoying these experiences I am getting in my job.

I can't wait to work tomorrow!

I will have a great summer with the children!

Hung