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Things I love about being home in nyc:
1)taking the subway
2)free (good) food - some of which is cooked by my grandma
3)I have a friend who gets center orchestra seats at the Met for student prices
4) internet at my disposal (and now it's highspeed!)
5)no mobicartes
6)having one of my favorite cities in the world - if not my favorite
7)walking down the street and knowing that no one is looking at you just because of the way you're dressed or language you're speaking
8) Pizza by the slice
9) theater
10) the receptionist at the Riverdale Y not making me pay even though I forgot my card
11)All the books in my house I've been meaning to read
12) my family and the way they act after they haven't seen my in four months :-)
There are many others as well... There are also a lot of things that I don't like about it - I definitely miss a lot of things that I started to get used to this semester. I went to the opera tonight with a friend of mine (the one who gets the amazing seats for cheap - well cheap for the Met anyway) and the opera "The Merry Widow"'was set in Paris. The set, being a Metropolitan Opera set, featured at least two different replicas of the La Tour Eiffel and at one point I realized that not a month ago I was sitting on a bench along the Seine with a friend of mine looking right out a similar view of the Eiffel Tower - only the one I was looking at wasn't made out of plywood and muslin...Getting pictures developed and looking at pictures has also had a similar effect, the realization that I was actually in those places and taking those pictures, remembering the exact moments when I took the pictures. Telling stories to my friends here also makes me remember things, I was talking about how "last week I was at my favorite cafe in Strasbourg..." which causes me to think about this place which I used to go to several times a week and have no idea when I will go again. I'm not as sad about it as I sound though, I've accepted being home and am really happy to see certain people again. I don't know how Oberlin is going to be for me though...Now I am clearly too sleepy to write, so I'm going to quite it before more aimlessness escapes my fingers
1)taking the subway
2)free (good) food - some of which is cooked by my grandma
3)I have a friend who gets center orchestra seats at the Met for student prices
4) internet at my disposal (and now it's highspeed!)
5)no mobicartes
6)having one of my favorite cities in the world - if not my favorite
7)walking down the street and knowing that no one is looking at you just because of the way you're dressed or language you're speaking
8) Pizza by the slice
9) theater
10) the receptionist at the Riverdale Y not making me pay even though I forgot my card
11)All the books in my house I've been meaning to read
12) my family and the way they act after they haven't seen my in four months :-)
There are many others as well... There are also a lot of things that I don't like about it - I definitely miss a lot of things that I started to get used to this semester. I went to the opera tonight with a friend of mine (the one who gets the amazing seats for cheap - well cheap for the Met anyway) and the opera "The Merry Widow"'was set in Paris. The set, being a Metropolitan Opera set, featured at least two different replicas of the La Tour Eiffel and at one point I realized that not a month ago I was sitting on a bench along the Seine with a friend of mine looking right out a similar view of the Eiffel Tower - only the one I was looking at wasn't made out of plywood and muslin...Getting pictures developed and looking at pictures has also had a similar effect, the realization that I was actually in those places and taking those pictures, remembering the exact moments when I took the pictures. Telling stories to my friends here also makes me remember things, I was talking about how "last week I was at my favorite cafe in Strasbourg..." which causes me to think about this place which I used to go to several times a week and have no idea when I will go again. I'm not as sad about it as I sound though, I've accepted being home and am really happy to see certain people again. I don't know how Oberlin is going to be for me though...Now I am clearly too sleepy to write, so I'm going to quite it before more aimlessness escapes my fingers