Day Five Or I Hope You Don’t Think I’m Disgusting, But You Gotta Fix Yourself Up Lady Or You Gotta Go To Jamaica In the morning, Denise, Nettie and I (Caitríona was at work) decided to find where our nearest Social Security Office was and apply for our social security cards. On went the laptop, and we discovered that the nearest office is just a few blocks away. We set off to begin our integration into American society, and found the office without much difficulty. The lift up to the 2nd [View Full Entry]

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Day Three Or Motorbikes and Manhattan Or From Eyre Square to Times Square So on Tuesday morning Caitríona went off for her first day of job training at Cronin & Phelan’s, so Denise, Nettie and I got up bright and early to hit the bright and early sights of Manhattan for the first time. We had no agenda, no idea, and no plan. We were purely going to see where Manhattan would take us. Emerging from the dark stuffy underground of the subway to the dizzying lights and bustling city streets of Times [View Full Entry]

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Day Four Or We’re Christening the Cooker Or Will I Make Myself Sick? Not much happened today except I found out that Denise and Nettie were ‘innocently’ getting to know their new co-workers last night, mainly by getting drunk with them and paying for it the next day. The day mainly consisted of the two girls wallowing in their hungover states and groaning softly about never touching drink again. The hilarity reached its peak when Denise displayed how indecisive she is with the question, &ld [View Full Entry]

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Day Two Or It’s a Fine Display of Cartography! Or This is Not. Grand. Avenue. On Monday morning we all got up bright and early to pound the pavements on our search for suitable employment. Our first stop was T-Mobile on Steinway street to buy new cell-phones. Strange that ‘mobile’ is in the title yet they call them cell phones…but then this is a very strange country. I was served by a helpful young man who looked alarmingly like Prince. But even more alarmingly he was named [View Full Entry]

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