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Today I woke up very tired but Charles was totally okay. We went to a Starbucks for breakfast and used their free wifi. YES.
We wanted to go to Kinokuniya bookshop, even though there's one in Sydney. They are a Japanese shop and have lots of nice Japanese magazines. On our way there we came across the New York Public Library - from Ghostbusters! We were really excited and went inside to look. It was a lovely old building with marble floors and wooden ceilings. We had fun. We are such nerds.
At Kinokuniya we bought a magazine each and then went upstairs to a cafe. They had Japanese foods up there that we really liked! I drank a giant iced coffee. We got really dehydrated walking around in the sun all day.
We went back to the hotel to collect our bags and got a cab to the big station. There were one billion people there and it was pretty loud and awful. We didn't know what track our train was leaving from until they announced it, and then there was a huge bunfight to get to the train. Literally hundreds of people trying to get down a tiny escalator with huge bags - crazy. Luckily we found a seat together.
I fell asleep on the train which was dumb of me, but when I wasn't asleep the scenery was really beautiful. Green and leafy and lots of quaint houses.
At Newark we were chucked out of the train. The man organising our workshops, Harvey, picked us up along with another guy from Switzerland. Harvey was really nice and friendly. We first went to the School of Music to meet some people (not everyone was there yet), and then he gave us our room keys and took us to the dorms. The dorm room is really strange. It's got lino floor, two very tall beds, two tiny desks, and a sink. It's kind of militaristic. The bathroom adjoins our room and the guy next door's room. So I hope he doesn't walk in on me in the shower (there's no lock weird weird weird).
We walked back to the School (Harvey said it would be an 8 minute walk and it took like 20) and all went out to dinner down the road. We went to an Italian place. Charles and I decided to share a small pizza. When it came, it was 14" wide. And thick too! It was so huge. I could only manage one piece and Charles only one and a half. We brought it home in a box and will have it for breakfast (I'm not really looking forward to that).
And that's it! Photos to follow!
We wanted to go to Kinokuniya bookshop, even though there's one in Sydney. They are a Japanese shop and have lots of nice Japanese magazines. On our way there we came across the New York Public Library - from Ghostbusters! We were really excited and went inside to look. It was a lovely old building with marble floors and wooden ceilings. We had fun. We are such nerds.
At Kinokuniya we bought a magazine each and then went upstairs to a cafe. They had Japanese foods up there that we really liked! I drank a giant iced coffee. We got really dehydrated walking around in the sun all day.
We went back to the hotel to collect our bags and got a cab to the big station. There were one billion people there and it was pretty loud and awful. We didn't know what track our train was leaving from until they announced it, and then there was a huge bunfight to get to the train. Literally hundreds of people trying to get down a tiny escalator with huge bags - crazy. Luckily we found a seat together.
I fell asleep on the train which was dumb of me, but when I wasn't asleep the scenery was really beautiful. Green and leafy and lots of quaint houses.
At Newark we were chucked out of the train. The man organising our workshops, Harvey, picked us up along with another guy from Switzerland. Harvey was really nice and friendly. We first went to the School of Music to meet some people (not everyone was there yet), and then he gave us our room keys and took us to the dorms. The dorm room is really strange. It's got lino floor, two very tall beds, two tiny desks, and a sink. It's kind of militaristic. The bathroom adjoins our room and the guy next door's room. So I hope he doesn't walk in on me in the shower (there's no lock weird weird weird).
We walked back to the School (Harvey said it would be an 8 minute walk and it took like 20) and all went out to dinner down the road. We went to an Italian place. Charles and I decided to share a small pizza. When it came, it was 14" wide. And thick too! It was so huge. I could only manage one piece and Charles only one and a half. We brought it home in a box and will have it for breakfast (I'm not really looking forward to that).
And that's it! Photos to follow!
