Riding the ferry was entertaining. While on the journey back from the Statue of Liberty, everyone was falling back and forth trying to stay upright and the water defied them. Being familiar with boats and ships I knew a trick to not fall. Go with the flow. If you sway with the waves and fall in step with the tide, instead of rejecting and rebelling you will stay standing. Of course once you leave the ocean it's a completely different matter. I still feel it now, 10 hours after leaving the boat. I can feel myself still tempted to sway with the sea.
-Emily S.
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Lower East Side
The streets of New York are definitely an adventure not one
for the faint of heart. There are street vendors trying their luck to take a
bit more money from you, people speaking so many different languages you lose
count, and the general busyness of the city. Traveling to Chinatown was an
experience like I’ve never had. Our waiter definitely didn’t have English as
his first language, so it was creative trying to understand him and having him
understand us. We got it in the end, but it was a bit confusing at first. You
also could barely read anything in Chinatown even though they had English
translations, it was a bit bothersome being unused to being surrounded by a
language that you don’t know. Italian gelato from Little Italy was delicious,
and I liked it a bit better than Chinatown because it was generally easier with
language and people and food. The streets are a zoo, with the voices of
millions, the city air (nothing like the country back home), and the cars and
stores. Times Square amazed me with the billboards that lit up the night sky.
Advertisements for various companies flashed wherever you looked. To finish
this, I quote from the movie The Fellowship of the Ring in regards to NYC: “You’d
best watch your feet… else there’s no knowing where you may be swept off to.”
-Emily R
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