Welcome to My World

Yesterday I was ill so that I couldn’t do sightseeing; today I have to see more places! One the way I was worried about my illness, maybe I could vomit or have to go to the restroom any time!

Today the weather was nice! The view on the highway was so amazing!( I took risks to get pictures while I was driving…)

Finally I finished the language school, I have more free time to do whatever I like. But I don’t know why, since the last month, I have been busy at doing sightseeing and had some parties. I didn’t sleep much, almost less than 5 hours per day. The day before taking a flight to Denver, I only slept 2 hours! In the early morning, I left from my room at 6 o’clock, and my flight was at 8 o’clock…

I made a lot of first-time experiences. Today I woke up in a empty room; I realized I stayed in a motel, of course I had to have breakfast alone! This motel supplies simple American breakfast. When I walked to dining room, other guests looked strangely at me. I guess it’s weird a weak Asian girl stayed here without company!

All it started at a simple idea. At the beginning I just wanted to take every transportation of MTA system to visit around New York; after hearing from my teacher’s recommend, I decided to take Metro-North Hudson Line which driving along Hudson River and is rated highly on Yelp! On the other hand, it’s hard to travel out of Manhattan without a car; also one of my American dreams is driving a car in USA countryside! That’s why I wanted to do! I only considered about the car rental plan for three days and must let it come true!  

Yesterday I was extremely excited at playing in the snow; Today when I woke up, I know I am a little ill! Even though I didn’t sleep well and had a running nose, I still went out to explore New York City!

The Cloisters Museum and Gardens is located in the most Northern of Manhattan; it takes over half hour to get there. I took red line number 1 and got off the subway at 191 street station. Now I start to record the sign of every station. Every passenger has to take an elevator to go back to the ground. There is an operator inside operating it.

I looked forward to snowing for a long time. After I arrived, I checked the weather broadcast every day to check if it snows or not. The first snowy day was in the end of October, but it finished very soon, not heavy snow. Today when I woke up in the morning, my roommate told me it was snowing outside!!! I was so excited and got ready quickly to go see snow! When I opened the door, everything was covered with snow!

Last night my friends and I had discussed how to celebrate New Year’s Eve until 1 am, because we had different purposes. Finally I decided where and what time I wanted to go; It’s my First New Year’s Eve in New York, I must go to Times Square!

昨晚和同學們討論跨年的活動一直到凌晨一點，因為我們有不同意見。但是我決定我就是要去時代廣場，這是我的新年，當然要照我的意願，就看誰要跟或不跟，反正我就是要去！ 

When I woke up this morning, I realized finally I was back to a lonely life as the first month I just arrived San Francisco or New York. Last night, no, maybe from my Korean friend’s last week, I started to say good-bye to him and did lots of memorable things together. This morning I cried again.

到紐約玩了一個多月的韓國同學終於也要離開回韓國，前晚和他道別後，今天早上醒來突然發現要是沒有玩伴，整個心境都好不一樣!要是我一直待在家裡，我會得憂鬱症吧！我決定還是要獨自去探索曼哈頓，就像我剛到舊金山或紐約一樣，總是要面對一個人的孤寂吧!

離開溫暖的Florida和親愛的家人後，回到紐約再重回中央公園，發現又不一樣的風貌了，捉住秋天的尾巴，樹葉幾乎掉光了。人說秋天的紐約最美，現在的時期剛好卡在不秋不冬，再來覆蓋著白雪的中央公園應該又是不同氣氛。

I left from warm Florida and came back cold New York City; at the time it was the end of fall, so almost leaves had already fallen. I caught the beautiful view of Central Park in November; next time I will wait until white snow covers all trees. It must show amazing scenery!

這幾天的活動地帶就在這裡，Ocala National Forest.