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On April 10, 2014, we went on a field trip to visit a museum in San Francisco. I have mix up emotions while we were traveling. I was excited to see different work of arts that I just used to see only in the books. We sat on a bus for two hours while I was making friend with the guy sitting next to me. We talked so many random things about our likes, the school, our family and the possible things that we would see in the museum. We exchanged ideas about certain work of arts that interest each of us.
We visited several museums wherein I saw different art work. However, at the first time, those museums did not arouse my interest for I could not see something interesting or breathtaking masterpiece in any of the museum we visited. Until we went to “Legion of Honor,” inside it, as I walked around, I couldn’t find any ancient art at first but when I went downstairs, I found few arts from Egypt. A sculpture in the “Legion of Honor” really caught my eyes. It was Seneb, scribe of the royal document, an Egyptian work of art belief to be from 1985-1878BC. It is a small wooden statues represent...

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