New York To D.C!
Howdy folks, currently in wahington d.c. and having a great time,
On monday gavin and i went to the american museum of natural history which was really interesting even though they left the dinasores to the last floor, by which time we were quite tired and we could feel the museum shutting around us!
Tuesday saw me head off to the United Nations building, well it felt a crime not to really since id spent an entire term studying it, which was facinating even if i am confident that our guide new pretty much next to nothing about the UN and its activities! Then in the afternoon i explored the beauty and tranquility of central park.
In the evening as we headed back from getting something to eat i had yet another of those random, its a small world type moments. I was just walking past one of the millions of starbucks on the way back to the hostel when i saw Emma Moreton from uni, who was until recently the sabbatical in charge of the Athletic Union at Uni. I was stunned to see someone so familar and we spent a while chatting as it turns out she had been working on a camp in upstate new york. Im still shocked at quite how random it was!
On wednesday we visited the museam of the city of new york followed by a free showing of the new movie idlewild, which is about as much as im allowed to say about it until its released!
Yesturday i jumped on the bus from new york which brought me down to washington d.c. The pepole here are a lot freindler than in new york, i was greeted by one of the local 'SAM' (safety and maintance) staff as soon as i stepped out of the subway who directed me to the hostel where i am now staying.
After finding a beautiful sandwhich shop which made a scrumptious banana and apple smoothie i went for a walk around the city, and found what i thought was the white house and was amazed at how close i was able to get, however i soon discovered by walking a little further that that was in fact the department of the treasurery and oh, THATS THE WHITE HOUSE,
This brought me onto thinking of one of those strange american contradictions, why do they have uniformed secret service personel? surely they lose their secracy?
Today i endulged my geek side and visited the superb smithsonian museam of air and space flight, and spent hours mainly in wonder at all the exhibits! This evening i joined a hotel organised execursion to the Kennedy Centre for the arts to look round and see a jazz concert, in the process finding a statue of presdient esisenhower which looked exactly like gazza! No kidding!
Ok now for a few messages
1) thanks for everyone whos emailed/ left comments, its great when pepole do please do as it lets me know you are all still alive etc etc and yes ele i did get the package it was great thanks, i did send you a letter which should arrive any day now i hope.
2) Becky, i hope you did ok in your exams and your test, let me know!
3) I managed to upload some photos to my facebook.com page, which is quite easy to get to, just type my name in and you can look at them,
Hope everyone is having fun
T
XXX
On monday gavin and i went to the american museum of natural history which was really interesting even though they left the dinasores to the last floor, by which time we were quite tired and we could feel the museum shutting around us!
Tuesday saw me head off to the United Nations building, well it felt a crime not to really since id spent an entire term studying it, which was facinating even if i am confident that our guide new pretty much next to nothing about the UN and its activities! Then in the afternoon i explored the beauty and tranquility of central park.
In the evening as we headed back from getting something to eat i had yet another of those random, its a small world type moments. I was just walking past one of the millions of starbucks on the way back to the hostel when i saw Emma Moreton from uni, who was until recently the sabbatical in charge of the Athletic Union at Uni. I was stunned to see someone so familar and we spent a while chatting as it turns out she had been working on a camp in upstate new york. Im still shocked at quite how random it was!
On wednesday we visited the museam of the city of new york followed by a free showing of the new movie idlewild, which is about as much as im allowed to say about it until its released!
Yesturday i jumped on the bus from new york which brought me down to washington d.c. The pepole here are a lot freindler than in new york, i was greeted by one of the local 'SAM' (safety and maintance) staff as soon as i stepped out of the subway who directed me to the hostel where i am now staying.
After finding a beautiful sandwhich shop which made a scrumptious banana and apple smoothie i went for a walk around the city, and found what i thought was the white house and was amazed at how close i was able to get, however i soon discovered by walking a little further that that was in fact the department of the treasurery and oh, THATS THE WHITE HOUSE,
This brought me onto thinking of one of those strange american contradictions, why do they have uniformed secret service personel? surely they lose their secracy?
Today i endulged my geek side and visited the superb smithsonian museam of air and space flight, and spent hours mainly in wonder at all the exhibits! This evening i joined a hotel organised execursion to the Kennedy Centre for the arts to look round and see a jazz concert, in the process finding a statue of presdient esisenhower which looked exactly like gazza! No kidding!
Ok now for a few messages
1) thanks for everyone whos emailed/ left comments, its great when pepole do please do as it lets me know you are all still alive etc etc and yes ele i did get the package it was great thanks, i did send you a letter which should arrive any day now i hope.
2) Becky, i hope you did ok in your exams and your test, let me know!
3) I managed to upload some photos to my facebook.com page, which is quite easy to get to, just type my name in and you can look at them,
Hope everyone is having fun
T
XXX
posted by Delorean Gray at 1:19 AM
1 Comments:
Hey Tim
Glad to hear you are having a good time travelling and had fun in New York. I got your post cards thank you, all the ones that you have sent me are up on my wall. Nothing much has changed here in Norfolk but I do have but I do have an update on the James situation for you when you are back in the UK and I can phone you. Keep sending post cards its always exciting getting post!
Ele ;o)
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