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Monday, June 27, 2005


I (heart) New York
Yeah, cheesy, but seriously, I loved New York. A lot. Like I'm seriously debating about going to college there. I mean, Columbia and NYC both have really good music programs, and there's always Broadway...that's been my dream since I was little. I didn't get to see any shows though-no one else was willing to pay $100 for front mezzenine seats(they where the only ones left) and my mom was too chicken to travel with me, her, and Courtney alone in New York.

After being there, I really think it'd be near impossible to get lost in NYC-at least in Manhattan. You walk untill you find a subway terminal, and you can take almost any downtown line straight to the Statten Island Ferry Terminal-congrats, you know where you are. Navigating the subway wasn't really too bad, but the adults where always nervous and doubting themselves and double cheking everything-no one would take charge, and if I tried to I got yelled at. I can see their point-I wouldn't want someone younger than me telling me what to do either, but if no one takes control, we don't go anywhere. Oh well.

The mission project part of it was fun too. We worked at a soup kitchen at Project Hospitality. The kitchen started on fire twice on our first day. It was hilarious. We also painted two rooms. Tina Van Holland (Trevor Schubert's mom) Julie B, Cortney S. and I got in major paint fights-we all looked hilarious. Everyone who saw me told me that the paint was supposed to go on the walls, not on me. We also cleaned out a warehouse-wonderfully tedious and boring work.

We went sightseeing too-Statue of Liberty (it's actually really tiny) Ellis Island (didn't go on it, just floated by) Ground Zero, and Chinatown (awesome place for Dutch bargainers)I got a dress at Chinatown for $55, which was $30 less than the begining price. I also got a purse (stop laughing, please) for $10 and a matching wallet for $6-I got them both down to half the asking price. Everyone else was getting Prada bags, or Chanel sunglasses, because you could get them for $20 instead of the thousands they cost in retail stores. Personally I think brand names are retarded-most of them are ugly anyway-just not my style. Besides, most of the Chinatown purses are knockoffs or stolen anyway, so who cares.

We got to talk to a bunch of kids who lived on Staten Island, where the mission project was located. The one I got to know best was Eliza. She looked like a crazy-goth. She had blue highlights, black shirt and skirt, and a dog chain. Now, your thinking juvenile deliquent, aren't you? guess again-AP honors classes, drama freak, got runner-up to a full-ride scholarship for a performing arts prep school. She was great-we compared life in Iowa vs NYC-it actually wasn't too different. Well, except for the fact that if thier bored, they can go to Manhatten, and if we're bored we cruise around the cornfields. Yeah, try saying that out loud and keeping your dignity.

I was getting really tired and crabby the last two days, partly because we worked so hard all the time, and partly because we where leaving soon, and I seriously didn't want to leave. It was an adventure. I'd never want to raise kids in New York-way to dangerous-but I would like to live there for a while. Maybe then I'll move to England for a while. And France, I've got to see the Eiffel Tower. And maybe then I'll go to Japan someday too.

And maybe this is all just idle talk and I'll go to college in Iowa and end up teaching at a high school for the rest of my life.

But I really hope not.

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