In the City

Today Megan and I took a trip into the city. We visited the Met for awhile, made a short lived trip through central park, ate in little Italy, and checked out some of the shops along Broadway.

The Met was as exciting as a museum could be. The building is absolutely huge and bread crumbs were needed to find out way out. The artwork was great, the Egyptian section was the best by far, and all the guards acted like they had been telling thousands of people to stop taking pictures for the past five hours straight. Pictures will be posted later on about the Met by the way.

Central Park was a pretty fun time, even though I think it is meant more for people who didn't grow up around trees and grass. To me it wasn't really all that exciting.

We ate dinner in little Italy, which, during this time of year, is more like a giant mosh pit of drunk Italians and pissed off New Yorkers. Apparently the San Gennaro feast was taking place. The San Gennero feast is like a giant Bloomsburg fair, with a couple hundred thousand more people. There were venders set up everywhere, food everywhere you looked. Megan and I ended up getting a table at a restaurant outside. The spaghetti was tremendous and the italian bread was even better. While eating, a crazy new yorker lady and boyfriend showed up and the woman decided that she was going to scream and cuss over a vendors side table blocking her way to the door of her apartment. F bombs just started flying. Wow, the guy who was with her almost got in a brawl with these three, mobster looking italian guys, not a great idea. So while having a nice sit down meal, I was constantly on my toes waiting to catch a flying chair or Sausage link, yes, the italian vendor was selling sausages. That finally calmed down and we had a very nice meal. Little Italy restaurants are 2/2 in satisfying meals.

After escaping the mosh pit, we headed down broadway to check out some little shops and stores. We went in a few shoe stores, didn't really find anything. I walked in a clothing store, very nice place, reminded me of an American Eagle or something close to it. I was thinking that I wanted a shirt or sweater, something in that ball park. I saw some nice cardigans, which I only have one that I like, so I was holding it up to myself, and it looked pretty good. I proceeded to reach inside the collar for the price tag just to see what we were looking at. When I first pulled it out, it was one of those times where you have to kind of double check it, or hold it further away from your face like parents do. 185$ for a navy blue cardigan. I salesman came over and asked if I needed help. I smiled, said "no thanks", put down the $185 cardigan, and walked out of the store.

Overall it was a good day.

Til next time,

Bhoov

Another Year in the City

"Run fast for your mother, run fast for your father
Run for your children, for your sisters and brothers
Leave all your loving, your loving behind
You cant carry it with you if you want to survive

The dog days are over

The dog days are done

Can't you hear the horses

Cause here they come"

~Florence and the Machine

A new year at St. Johns has begun. The story of a country boy becoming a city kid continues. First of all, the lyrics above are part of a great song. Anyone who has not heard it needs to open up a new tab, go to youtube, and type in Florence and the Machine- dog days are done. Anywho, the sophomore year at St. Johns has started off as good as I could have hoped I'd say. I haven't encountered any professors with inaudible accents nor have I set foot in the city of Newark. Two thumbs up there.

Tomorrow I am going into Manhattan to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is not for pure leisurely enjoyment. I have to write a "visual analysis" on one of the paintings there for my Discover New York Class. The class is more or less a joke so I'm not too worried, plus two the museum admission is purely donation, great for poor college students. After art viewing? not really sure the term for it, but afterwards I'm heading next door to take a stroll in Central Park. I figure that is the closest to home I will get for another couple weeks. I'm talking about the trees and green for those of you who didn't catch that.

No real complaints yet this early in the year other than the fact that I am digging my way into piles of debt, and St. Johns cant provide a network fast enough to load a 30 second youtube video. My netflix viewing will have to go on hold til some of my tuition money kicks in and helps pay for network repairs. Other than that..no complains. More stories to come after visiting the Met and central park.

Til next time,

Bhoov