Yesterday we went to a café and began reading a book called “Kiki Strike”. Based on what I read of the book, it is about a girl named Ananka who wants to find out about underground worlds. One day Ananka came across a girl in her class who she had never seen before named Kiki Strike. Kiki said something in class the immediately got Ananka interested in her, she said to her principal that when she grows up she wants to be dangerous. Soon after that ananka started following her.
While we were all reading the book Ananka saw Kiki at Marble Cemetery which is on 2nd ave. When we found out it was so close to us we decided to go visit the cemetery. First we went to The Bowery Hotel that had a view of the cemetery. After that we went to the entrance of the cemetery which was locked because only family members were allowed to go in. The thing that was so unique about the Marble Cemetery was that there were no head stones because the graves were one foot under ground. There were stone walls that had marble plaques with the names of the people.

Even though the gate was locked some of the gardeners let us in to look at the cemetery. While we were there, the head gardener told us how the graves were set up and that the people were buried there during the 1800’s. There was a disease going around and they didn’t want anybody else to get it so they buried them deep underground and enclosed them in stone doors. The gardener also showed us a bunch of bugs which were really disgusting and nobody had a camera so Renee and Jenny had to run there so we could document the experience then write a blog about it. When Renee got there she was really excited because she’s really in to the book. She also held a banana slug which secreted its waste all over her hand.