The Feast of San Gennaro is a annual celebration of the patron of Naples. The very first feast took place in New York City on September 19,1926 when the newly arrived immigrants from Naples stood in Mulberry street in little Italy section of NYC and agreed to carry in the tradition they had followed in Italy to also honor the day in 305 a.d when San Gennaro was martyred for faith.
When Erik Shold announced we were going to the Feast of San Gennaro I thought “OMG a boring trip Im going to sleep threw this trip”. But when I saw that most of the class was excited I was thought, “it can’t be that bad”. Erik started explaining that the feast is a celebration of the Italian heritage and that the feast lasts 11 days He added that its a very fun trip so it got me a bit interested.
When we got to the trip I thought it was weird. There was people that looked very weird like the little short lady and a guy who made jokes about every thing it was super funny. There was food everywhere that was my favorite part. There were italian ices everywhere. I bought 2 cherry ones(yummy). Everything was so pretty and there was a lot of Italian flags all over. It was a very fun trip.
After going on the trip I thought that it was a great place to go, Its not a boring place; I even told my mom we should go one day. She said she’ll think about it. My cousins from the Dominican Republic came and they wanted to go somewhere fun I as gonna take them there but my parents didn’t allow us to leave the house. I cant wait to go back one day so i could buy all the food. It was very fun
Thanks for the great experience Landmark.