Blogs from New York, United States, North America - page 481

I have a helpful hint for you. You, being perhaps a sensible person, might have thought of this before I did. But in my haste to renew my passport I wasn't thinking clearly and thus got completely robbed by the USPS. There I paid $13 to have two photos taken to be sent along with my passport. Kansai Gaidai also requires ten passport-sized photos so before my classes this morning I went to get a money order for $150 at the post office and to CVS to get my pictures taken. I paid $8.65 for 16 pictures. I'm a wee bit irritated. But what's done is done, so I suppose it doesn't do any good to think about it. I handed in the red form and MO to the IE office, borrowed scissors to cut my ... read more

Hey Peoples!!! Well I'm just waiting for my flight to the UK!! I'm really bored!! Its only 10.50am and my flight doesn't leave till 4.30pm!! Eck!! Anyways....yesterday I walked through Central Park and that was beautiful...I sat there for like an hour and was like ahhhhhhh nature...Birds, Squirrels...yay!! So you guessed it took more photos of the cute, cheeky little squirrels...Yesterday I had planned to go down to Wall Street as well..But woke up late..Had to head to the post office first...WHAT A NIGHTMARE!!!...Ok in NZ we can just walk into the post office, grap whatever we need to post our stuff and then post it...Takes maybe 10mins right!!! Well not here!!! First of all you have to go to the post shop and buy all the stuff you need...Then there's a separate place for packing ... read more

A snow covered New York might look really nice in the movies but nothing could prepare us for how cold it's been. We got in on Wednesday evening and spent a few hours sampling the local Irish bars. We were all pretty tired and had a big day of sightseeing planned for Thursday, so had a relatively early night. The night will be remembered purely for a full speed pelt through the streets of New York back to our hostel. We were worried we would literally freeze if we didn't move quickly - it was about -15. Big day of sightseeing yesterday in temperatures of -13 (the extra 2 degress made all the difference!!) and we took in the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, Grand Central Terminal and the site of the World Trade Centre. ... read more

Well yes!! Two in one day!!! Ok firstly its because I wanted to discuss politics and secondly there's a blizzard outside don't you know!! It started snowing at 12pm and it hasn't stopped!! Its almost 10pm!! Eck!!! In saying that I did manage to get two things done!! The American Museum Of Natural History...but not before I got myself lost again!! Well actually I got on the wrong train!! I was supposed to get on the B to 81st Street..but I waited and waited and no B came...so I got on the D thinking it would go past my stop...and it did go past my stop, right past my stop until I got to 125th Street!!!! Now many Americans have told me that its very unsafe for a white person to go past 100th Street and ... read more

Aujourd'hui, et bien, Rockfeller Center, shopping (on y a prit du gout), encore shopping (he oui!), musée des pompiers, premier district. Ce musee et bien sur dedie aux pompiers morts pendant le 11/9. Tres touchant... Moment...Un peu de culture! Rockfeller Center Son nom provient de John Davison Rockefeller (1839-1937), qui loua ce terrain à l'Université Columbia en 1928. La réalisation du complexe est l'œuvre de son fils, John Davison Rockefeller Junior (1874-1960), qui développa le projet entre 1929 et 1940. Les Rockefeller avaient au départ prévu d'y construire un opéra, mais changèrent d'opinion après le krach de 1929. La construction dans le style Art déco commença cette année-là. L'une des premières sociétés à y entrer fut la Radio Corporation of America, d'où le nom que l'on donnera ensuite au Radio City Music Hall. ... read more