April 6, 2008

• The New York Chronicles:  Life of an OC Girl in NYC
  Entry 2

  It's still cold here in NYC for OC standards, but it's getting warmer, I can tell.    Here I am walking down our street and also a photo of our street corner.

  

  

  For our first Saturday here, we strolled around getting acquainted with our area to figure out where the laundromat is, the dry cleaners, the bank, etc...  We walked to the nearby Thompkins Square Park, which is only a few blocks from our place.  It's also a dog park so if anyone brings a dog with them, we can take them here. =)  Here's a photo of Nam and Johnny walking in the park and a photo of the doggies!

  

  

  At night, we visited the apartment where Heath Ledger lived, for Dan.  Here we are in front of his door in Soho.  (tip:  Soho is the area South of Houston St.  And Houston is pronounced How-ston, not like Houston, Tx )  We live in the East Village so we are only the next neighborhood over.

  

  We went bar hopping around our area.  Since we live near NYU, we saw a lot of students out.  At one of the bars, we made a couple new friends.  They aren't even from New York.  They were both Brazilian... haha.  We told them how we went to Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro and I shared with them some of the portuguese words I learned... hehe. 

  Of course what do we do on Sundays?  We have to go to Sunday mass so we found a church that is very close to us.  We didn't realize how close it was until we stepped out our door and heard the singing.  We realized that the elementary school building across the street from us was actually a catholic school.  If only the church had a back door, we could just walk across the street instead of going around the corner.  An interesting thing about mass is that during Our Father, people didn't really hold hands so it kind of threw me off... haha.  At first I thought I made a mistake when I raised my hands to hold the person's next to me.

  

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