an insider's guide to boarding school, manhattan, and hoboken
Google and wikipedia are great and everything, but I need help on three subjects. I've done as much research as I can about boarding schools, how they work, things like that, but I still don't feel I can write convincingly enough about them. Ditty Manhattan (New York) and Hoboken (New Jersey). What I need is an insider's view of boarding school, Manhattan, and Hoboken. Things only someone who's gone to boarding school or lived in Manhattan/Hoboken would know.
Here are some of the specifics of what I want to know:
boarding school
Since I get half of my information on boarding school from books like Harry Potter, movies like Cry_Wolf, shows like Code Lyoko, the wikipedia page, and browsing various New York boarding school websites, I've got the general gist of prefects and roommates and what time you're allowed to be in your rooms or not in your rooms, etc.
What I need to know is things like what do the prefects do? Do you get to meet your roommate beforehand or do you meet them when they/you/both of you show up? What happens when you first enroll? Do you go see the principal, or is all that taken care of before classes start? Speaking of, do classes start as soon as everyone's back on campus (like the day after) or is there some kind of assembly first? If you can give me the information, or know if I'm not searching hard enough for it, please help.
manhattan and hoboken
What're some good places to eat? What're some bad ones? What parts of the city do people who live there know to avoid and just what is the hobo-to-street-corner ratio in NYC, anyway? It also seems (from reading Peeps and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist) that Hoboken isn't a place anyone would be particularly proud to live in. Why is that? How hard is it to catch a taxi cab in New York? Where do people who aren't tourists go for fun? Include street names, please. Any slang terms common to Manhattaners/Hobokeners would be good, too. That sort of thing.
Like I said, I need an insider's view of these things/places. I'd also like to know where in Manhattan a girl who isn't rich, but has enough money for a nursemaid would live. I'd like it to be an apartment building, if possible. And, also, a little random, but also something I want to know, are you allowed to walk into a hotel (any hotel, but I'm thinking, specifically, the Hilton) and bypass the check-in desk in favor of the elevator? Or would they recognize that you don't have a room at the hotel?
Thanks for any and all help. :3
Here are some of the specifics of what I want to know:
boarding school
Since I get half of my information on boarding school from books like Harry Potter, movies like Cry_Wolf, shows like Code Lyoko, the wikipedia page, and browsing various New York boarding school websites, I've got the general gist of prefects and roommates and what time you're allowed to be in your rooms or not in your rooms, etc.
What I need to know is things like what do the prefects do? Do you get to meet your roommate beforehand or do you meet them when they/you/both of you show up? What happens when you first enroll? Do you go see the principal, or is all that taken care of before classes start? Speaking of, do classes start as soon as everyone's back on campus (like the day after) or is there some kind of assembly first? If you can give me the information, or know if I'm not searching hard enough for it, please help.
manhattan and hoboken
What're some good places to eat? What're some bad ones? What parts of the city do people who live there know to avoid and just what is the hobo-to-street-corner ratio in NYC, anyway? It also seems (from reading Peeps and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist) that Hoboken isn't a place anyone would be particularly proud to live in. Why is that? How hard is it to catch a taxi cab in New York? Where do people who aren't tourists go for fun? Include street names, please. Any slang terms common to Manhattaners/Hobokeners would be good, too. That sort of thing.
Like I said, I need an insider's view of these things/places. I'd also like to know where in Manhattan a girl who isn't rich, but has enough money for a nursemaid would live. I'd like it to be an apartment building, if possible. And, also, a little random, but also something I want to know, are you allowed to walk into a hotel (any hotel, but I'm thinking, specifically, the Hilton) and bypass the check-in desk in favor of the elevator? Or would they recognize that you don't have a room at the hotel?
Thanks for any and all help. :3