thanks to EF, I am able to go to New York for 5 months.
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EF international language school,
100 Marymount Avenue,
Tarrytown,NY 10591, USA
29-11-2014
Day 84
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!
My first Thanksgiving was amazing!! I had to wake up at 5AM to go to the parade in New York! We arrived at 6.30AM, we thought we were early but there were already so many people. When
there is a parade in New York it is horrible to walk around, You cannot
cross any street, when you ask a police officer if you can cross, they
something like ' you have to go to 42th street' and than you think
'alright, that is only two blocks away.' So you arrive at 42th street
and ask another police officer if you can cross, they answer with the
sentence 'You have to go to 44th street.' alright a little more annoyed
you try to walk two more blocks. You finally arrive and again you ask if
you can cross the street and they answer with the horrible sentence
'You have to walk to 42th street." After an hour of trying to find a decent spot where we could see, we finally found one, we had to wait a long time. The
parade was amazing, the floats were so big, I mean I knew they were big
but I didn't expect them to be that big. Huge. Beautiful. I wanted to
take a lot of pictures but it was freezing cold and snowing so my
hands were frozen. I saw a lot a lot of celebrities, just like: Lucy Hale, Nick Jonas, Idina Menzel, Meghan trainor, ...
My first Thanksgiving was amazing!! I had to wake up at 5AM to go to the parade in New York! We arrived at 6.30AM, we thought we were early but there were already so many people. When there is a parade in New York it is horrible to walk around, You cannot cross any street, when you ask a police officer if you can cross, they something like ' you have to go to 42th street' and than you think 'alright, that is only two blocks away.' So you arrive at 42th street and ask another police officer if you can cross, they answer with the sentence 'You have to go to 44th street.' alright a little more annoyed you try to walk two more blocks. You finally arrive and again you ask if you can cross the street and they answer with the horrible sentence 'You have to walk to 42th street." After an hour of trying to find a decent spot where we could see, we finally found one, we had to wait a long time. The parade was amazing, the floats were so big, I mean I knew they were big but I didn't expect them to be that big. Huge. Beautiful. I wanted to take a lot of pictures but it was freezing cold and snowing so my hands were frozen. I saw a lot a lot of celebrities, just like: Lucy Hale, Nick Jonas, Idina Menzel, Meghan trainor, ...
After the amazing parade, I went to a host family for a thanksgiving dinner. The family was so nice, there were a lot of people, 6 little children, and 12 adults. the food was great; turkey, salmon, yam, brussels sprouts, cranbery sauce, salade, stiffing, ... and the desert was; pumkin pie, pecan pie, chocolat pecan pie, apple pie, ice cream, ...
I went with my roommate/best friend, Victoria. Our day began when we took the train to Manhattan at 10AM. When we arrived we walked to a vegan restaurant, Peacegood Cafe. The food was so good, better than the food of the cafeteria. I ate a paninni and Victoria a pizza. After we had to hurry for our tickets for The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. We only had a reservation for the show, they overbook every show to make sure they have a full room. luckily we were still early. We had to go to the second floor of rocker feller center. We waited for about 45 minutes. we got our tickets! We could go back outside but we had to make sure we were back an hour later. It was the longest hour of my life. Some had letters on there ticket and some had numbers. We had the letter 'L' on our ticket. After the loungest hour, we had to go back, wait, go through metal detectors, wait, and than we could go to the seventh floor, where the studio was. The studio was beautiful but for some reason smaller than I expected. We were sitting in the fourth row, we had the perfect view, we were lucky because the people who were sitting on the first, second or third row couldn't see a thing because of all the camera's. After half an hour the show started, 'The Roots' (The band) were amazing, and Jimmy Fallon was so funny, my cheeks started to hurt because I couldn't stop laughing. There were two guests Bill O'Reilly and Lorde! It was amazing and at the end Lorde performed her song 'Yellow Flicker Beat' It was absolutely amazing!!
Santa Claus is coming to town, so New York is getting ready for the most wonderful time of the year. CHRISTMAS!!! It is quit early but it happened. Christmas trees, lights, decorations everywhere. It's beautiful!
This was a great week, my mom visited me! We hadn't seen eachother in two whole months, It was amazing!
We did so much, walked around, went on top of the rock, the battery park, brooklyn bridge, stardust,... we did everything we could do in 7 days. At that time it was halloween, one day I walked around with my face painted like Day of the Dead, and the other day I was dressed up as Maleficent! When we went to the Halloween parade we saw... Whoopi Goldberg!!! The second celebrity I have seen!!! It was absolutely amzing. The two guys we stayed with were so cool, we directly felt like home.
This was the last friday in this level, thursday I had my progress test. I was in level B2.3 (Upper intermediate) and now I'm going to C1.1 (Advanced) So for our last friday in B2.3, we baked! We baked apple pie, apple candy, pancakes, french toast and we made milk shake. It was so much fun, I have the best class ever :)
This was the best day of my life!!! I met Neil Patrick Harris today!!! Can you believe that!! For those who don't know him, he plays Barney in How I met Your Mother. This is the best show ever, so please, do yourself a favor and watch it :)
So, directly after class finished, I went to New York. It was a around 5.30 PM, me and a good friends arrived at Barnes and Noble (A famous bookstore at Union Square), Neil Patrick Harris wrote a book and he was there to promote it and sign it. We bought our book and went in line. We waited four hours and a half but it was worth it. I wasn't allowed to take a picture with him, but it was amazing!!!
I had a great sunday at New York, with my amazing friends :) First we went to The High Line, it is beautiful to walk there. Later we rented some bikes, and biked through central park, wich is only getting more and more beautiful in tha fall. And than we went to Brooklyn, to have dinner at 'thai thai'. It was so good, finaly good food again!
Because it is EF's 50th aniversery, there is a competition between all EF school from all over the world. Every school has to make a dance video, on this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U9dQS5mqks&index=55&list=WL I was one of the dancers, we went to New York to flash mob dance. It was so cool, but there were a lot of place where we got kicked out by the police, like Grand Central and Rockerfeller Centre.
I did some amazing things in New York. First me and my friends had lunch in an amazing restaurant. Ellen's Stardust Diner is a restaurants where broadway actors work if they don't have a show at that time. So the waiters sing broadway song while they give your food. It is amazing. We also wanted to go to Central Perk ( the cafe from in 'friends', it opened very recently) but when we got there you had to wait for 3 hours to get in. So we are planning to go back an other time.
FIELD DAY!!! We didn't had any class today. It was the fourth annual field day. We
were put in groups, the theme was monsters so I was in the group called
'The Mummies' and in those groups we could choose between; body
(sports), mind (quizzes) and heart (dancing). I chose heart, I liked
it but we didn't get enough time to think about a routine and we had to
perform for the entire school, wich was a little awkward.
But I also got amazing news. My next door neighbour and I really wanted to go to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. We
knew that the tickets for november, would come online at 11.30 AM, the
tickets are always sold out within two minutes BUT WE GOT THEM!!! Two tickets for november 25th! We're so excited!!!
Hey guys, I know it has been a long time since I posted something, But I have been enjoying the american life. I can finally watch The Ellen Degeneres Show like it is meant to be :) on television!! The classes are nice, we even had class outside because of the beautiful weather. I've learned a lot in photography class. I'm having a great time here!!!
First of all we had
the coolest ride ever, the typical yellow school bus. In America
everything is 27 times bigger than it is in Belgium. So, also in Six
Flags it was 27 times higher, faster and impressive as it is in a
Belgian theme park. I went on the
highest roller coaster in the world, which was 456 feet (140meters)
high, and the top speed was 128 miles per hour (208 km/h) It was just crazy!!!
Just had a lovely saturday in New York City. Went shopping, got some ideas for my first real Halloween costume and much more. Can't wait for Halloween!
After some fun classes, me and two friends went to the movies. We had an amazing time. First we ate pizza, and later to the movie 'The Maze Runner'. Great movie!!
I've had an other amazing day, today. After winning the scavenger hunt, we got free frozen yogurt!!! It was just absolutely amazing. And every single day I meet amazing people.
It's my 10th day in New York, and I'm still so happy I've made this decision. Over the last few days there didn't really happen much, where I could have taken pictures of, so I'll just tell you.
The classes that I've already had , are general english classes. They are fine, have nice teachers, nice classmates. I like it. But Monday, I'll finaly have my first Media&Art class. I can't wait. I'm so excited.
In my freetime, I have to make my homework. But there are also a lot of nice things to do, like go shopping in Tarry town, go to New York City, go for a nice wallk around the lake, make tie-die t-shirts, go swimming and much more.
Tarrytown is so lovely!!! It's so peaceful and the houses are like crazy beautyful.
I went on the welcome tour today, on top of the rock (Rockfeller center). It was breathtaking, the most beautiful view I have ever seen. I am seriously falling in love with New York, I love everything about this city.
My life in New York
