Typing
this from my office on a rainy day where my assistant director Kelly isn't in
hehe. Hello peeps, after a whole month, here I am again! Although blogger's
statistics shows that absolutely no one from Malaysia nor Ireland nor Singapore
is reading my blog, I will still try and keep it up cuz I'm doing this for
myself more than anything else lel.
So second intersession is coming in 4 more
days and I’m heading to the city of Philadelphia for 3 days 2 nights! (Although
it’s only like 1 and a half days tbh LOL.) The first intersession I followed a
lot of people to Seaside Heights where I got to see the famous Jersey Shore! I always
thought it was just a MTV show name and not an actual place, guess I was wrong!
It was really nice walking along the boardwalk experiencing the American shore
life with arcades and pizza parlors by the sea. What shocked me the most is I
had to pay to enter the beach! Like what. 8 whole freaking dollars. It was a
good thing that the hostel that I was staying at gave out free beach passes,
although they were limited to like 4 per room and my room had like 8 people
LOL! I shared a bed with Maria and Dominika from Poland and Yaritza from Mexico
while the other king sized bed was shared by the Hungarians (Orsi, Daniel and
Sofi). I got a tan and a magnet from that intersession and got to know some
people a little better than expected which wasn’t necessarily a good thing. It
was a really cool (and quite expensive) trip! Spent almost 200 dollars I think,
quite annoying that I had to spend so much but I had a really great time there
so it was all worth it kinda haha :D It was my first time in a party house in
America with loads of red solo cups so the feel is just extra good lel, not to
mention the make out and shits going on in the rooms all over the house haha,
living the full American life.
Overall it was a great experience la!! Hopefully
the 2nd trip will be better although it’s a smaller group travelling
this time. Plus, this philly trip is purely exploring and all, so it would be
like any trip of mine where I just hope to cover as many places as possible xD
I
don’t believe I covered my pre camp trip yet lel. Well I went to Buffalo and
the Niagara Falls which was really eye opening. Like the general public said,
the Canada side would have had a greater view, but it’s a much more close up
view of the falls from the American side. Too bad one of the viewing deck was closed,
cause that deck had a really great view L. To be fair, buffalo
didn’t had much to offer during my short stay there, so it was kind of a meh
city for me, just to stopover for Niagara Falls, so 24 hours in Buffalo ended
with a rainy dash from my great hostel to the bus station. I took a megabus
from Buffalo to New York that lasted roughly 9 hours. I tried to sleep along
the way which was mostly successful except for the fact that the kid beside me
spilled a whole big pack of Skittles, so I was stepping on skittles all journey
long. Good thing was the bus had a working wifi equipped so that was great hehe
:D. So I reached New York at 7am with a slight drizzle to welcome me to the big
apple! It was a great feeling, like im finally here in this great city. Walked
around, saw Times Square with no one there at all due to it being really early,
Maddison Square Garden, M&M World and decided it was best to check in first
cause I was really tired. Before that, I had Subway for breakfast first haha! I
put my bags at the hostel and rested for about 2 hours before starting to
discover New York fully. I took a metro back to Times Square and started
wondering around, sang in a karaoke competition by American Standard. Did so
badly omg can’t believe I got the wrong key for like 75% of the song T.T. Anyway
still got a small gift bag for that, not too bad haha! I went to the HBO store
which was small but quite cool to look at all the GOT merchandise which were
quite pricey. Next stop was Grand Central Station which was really cool as
scenes from Madagascar and all those disaster movies were running through my
head. I had a Shake Shack burger there for lunch which was not cheap at all but
tasted so good hehe! After that, I stopped by the NY Public Library but I
realized I was too tired to really walk around so just sat down and used the
WiFi lel. Went out and started walking towards the Green Line Park which was
freaking amazing. It used to be a railway track which is then converted into a
park which was really modern and pretty. Had a really nice rest and went to try
the famous artichoke pizza and it was freaking delicious. It was my first time
tasting artichoke and yet it tasted so good!! Then, I continued my walk down
the west side of Manhattan along the pier and just decided to take a 30 minute
nap on one of the benches cause at that point my feet was aching like a bitch
from walking all day long with no proper rest from walking all day at Buffalo
as well HAHA! After that nap, walked again to finally reach the 911 memorial,
continued to Wall Street, took a pic with the charging bull, got to the park
near the end (which I think is called Battery Park) and decided against taking
the ferry to the Statue of Liberty thing, didn’t think it was worth it… walked
around summore, took a couple of pics of the Brooklyn Bridge and then decided
to take the metro back to the hostel to rest. I was really proud of myself for
being able to walk so much of Manhattan hehe :D I was really close to Chinatown
when I was near Brooklyn Bridge and there is a great char siew rice stall in
there somewhere but I was too tired to actually go there. Should have dabaoed
and have that for dinner in the hostel. Instead, there was a Chinese food place
near the hostel. It was quite famous apparently cuz its been visited by famous
chefs lel. Had it for dinner and lunch the next day. It was really good!
Visited Central park the next day but that was about it, cuz I travelled to
camp after the walk in the park.
That
was a month ago. I’ve had loads of fun and frustrating times since then, camp
has been generally a great place, although some things I wish could have
changed. I prepare the schedules everyday, do some paperwork every session,
answer calls, make calls, all those things. Truthfully, I can’t wait to go back
to Dublin and just sleep in my own bed, not worrying bout mosquitos, cook my
fried rice and shizz, just enjoying life and wait for Abigail to go back to
Dubs so that we can just chill for a while till class starts. Ahh, that chill
life. Can’t wait. Another thing is I think US is quite an expensive place
sometimes, can’t wait to just go home and spend less haha!! I think that’s all
I have to say for now and my hands are getting pretty tired. So I think I will just
stop here. Love you guys so much and can’t wait to get home!! <3 o:p="">
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