See New York City

“We arrived at Penn Station and exited on Eighth Avenue to walk to the Path station, I saw the yellow cabs in the middle of that crowd and I thought: I’m in New York. [...] I tried different foods, stopped by Times Square a few times, went to see Carrie’s apartment, asked for several strangers to take my photos, lay on the grass in High Line Park, got lost on the subway just once, got anxious in restaurant lines because I didn’t know what to order, I tested my English levels all the time, and visited Brooklyn Bridge while remembering Miranda and Steve’s scene in Sex and the City.”

“Of course I had to visit Times Square to see all the hustle and bustle of New York City. It was an interesting experience to say the least. There were street performers everywhere, while some were good and some were absolutely terrible. [...] Our group was taking pictures together and Mickey mouse characters ran up and hopped in our pictures. We didn’t say anything because we thought that it was funny; however, afterwards they were demanding money from us even though we never asked for them to be in our picture. My friend was going to give them a small tip and the guy in the costume saw that he had $30 in his pocket and insisted on that and left.”

“But kind of like an ocean if you allow yourself to ease into the flow and run with the tide it becomes easy, almost natural. Slowly and surely I let myself slip into the flow, and slowly but surely it became part of me. Within days my city girl side was back and by the weekend I WAS the city. I was chatting to folks on the street, hopping onto the subway like a local, hustling through crowds like a pro and sucking in that vast energy that I love so much like a soul-energizing drink.”