Blogs from New York, United States, North America - page 404

Hello everyone, Firstly it my birthday in 6 days time so I thougth I should remeind you all so that you can send me all presents .... Ha. Oh and happy birthday to Albert as well which was two days ago ... I think! Anyway. I woke up nice and early in LA and got dropped off back at LAX airport by Bee. After waving goodbye I turned around and started looking where I was meant to go. This has to be the most confusing airport ive been in so far. My plane wasnt up onthe borad and I ended up being told to cheak into the place where it said flight to sydney was aslo for new york. How confuisng. Then when I tryed to cheak in, it turnes out another Katharine Bowman had cheaked ... read more

Can you get high from excessive exposure to Fantastik? The answer is yes. I have been spraying the "heavy duty" version on every imaginable surface since Saturday. After surviving an adventurous move diagonally across Manhattan, I am now in my new apartment! "An attractive tall, blond woman standing near the UN building almost caused the death of three innocent souls this weekend" may sound like a headline from Metro. But it almost happened, when my 20 year old "truck driver" decided to pay a lot more attention to this lady's extremely tight jean miniskirt than the traffic. We all made it in one piece, though sadly the lamp and dresser drawers did not. The morale has been strong, and the spirits high during the first 48 hours in the new apartment excluding a brief moment of ... read more

So we are writing this from New York but it is actually about our trip to Washington - with one thing and the other we never got a chance to update it there! Much prefer Washington to New York - it is quiter, more relaxed, smaller, much easier to get around and best of all everything is free! Washington was the scene of Pauls money disaster though, so we will always remember it for that! We got the Chinatown bus ok in the end for all my worrying about it, seemed a bit chaotic when we arrived but went pretty smoothly in the end and we got dropped off right in the centre of washington. Hostel in Washington was not as professional as the one in New York, and seemed to be a bunch of ... read more

After a rather brief and restless night of sleep, it was time to face the day at Ham-tech (that's Hamilton, for you non-insiders). Luckily, we didn't have to face it too enthusiastically, easing into it with a quick breakfast at the dining hall and then off to our morning massages! We grabbed our meal tickets for breakfast and headed over to the Soper Commons, or Commons, as it's more commonly known. Its original purpose was as a church, as directed by its benefactor, but when he passed away, the college repurposed it as a dining hall. It still has its architectural charm though, which is handy, since the food isn't any good. We've had a debate raging about its quality all weekend, with all the ladies on the side of rating it "bad." Although the dining ... read more

06/05/07 - 15/05/07 New York, New York We arrived in New York, I started reading Amerika by Franz Kafka. Very timely. One tunnel and one black Lincoln town car later and we were on that expensive strip of land - Manhattan Island. We de-bagged in midtown and strolled around Broadway and Times Square soaking up the atmosphere. A man sat in his convertible car, not just with roof down but converted to an office, with a desk installed in the back and passenger seats. Printer, Fax, Flat screen monitor, pot plants, stapler and pen pots - the works. Now there’s a way to use and abuse Starbucks free wireless internet. With a couple of days before Jen’s brother was meeting us, we nipped off to Atlantic City for 2 days of outlet center shopping and 2 ... read more