Why This Week Sucked

TGIF. This week seemed to drag on forever. Not only did the weather stink this week, but the teachers at school seemed as though they wanted to make every second in school as painful as possible.

Track practice this week was also painful. The weather just made everything depressing and I think I'm getting sick. To top everything off this week, my film came back blank! I was very dissapointed to find that my camera took 0 exposures. However I located the problem and solved it.

On the brighter side, this weekend I will be traveling to Albany NY to run in a 5K race. I love 5K races because they are an actual distance race. Not some stupid sprint race on a track. Afterwards I hope to get some sushi and go shopping at the mall. I know that my next roll of film will have actual pictures to post :)

Welcome Back School

First week back to school after spring break was okay. I'm not excited for the end of the year. However I am very excited for summer.

The end of the school year means piles upon piles of homework, endless studying, and capitol S-T-R-E-S-S. However horrible all of this seems, we all tend to make it to the end of the school year okay.

So the first week back was fine. Nothing really exciting happenend, math teacher seemed to be in a bad mood. This weekend I'm looking into having a deep fried party. At this party, some friends of mine are going to get together and deep fry anything and everything. We plan on trying deep fried cheesecake, pickles, oreos, peanut butter cups, everything. Sounds unhealthy right?

I'll be blogging about how that goes later. Tomorrow I'm going to get my camera film developed. So pictures of NYC on the way!

Woah, NYC

I Love New York City. I just arrived back home a few hours ago from New York, and I miss it already. My family and I left early Thursday morning and took the train down to Penn Station. The train ride was really cool. It reminded me a lot of Germany, and the scenery was great! The train went along the Hudson River. There were many interesting houses looking out onto the river. We got to the city around 10:45 and that's when all the adventures began. My family and I started out by going to Greenwich Village (my new favorite part of the city). I really liked the village because it was cute. The shops, the cafe's, and the people were all plainly cute. In Greenwich Village I purchased a lomography camera called a Holga. The Holga isn't a digital camera. The one I bought takes 35mm film and I love it. The other cool thing about Greenwich Village was Washington Square Park. The main attraction of the Park was the Washington Square Arches. From Greenwich Village we walked to Soho. I liked Soho as well, it was just much more expensive. After spending a little time in Soho we went to the Little Italy and Chinatown areas. We got foot massages in Chinatown which was a little weird. I hadn't trimmed my toenails and my feet were sweaty from walking. I felt bad for the Asian woman massaging my tired feet. Chinatown and Little Italy didn't keep my family interested for very long so we took the subway to Times Square to check into our hotel. Our hotel was pretty crappy. From the lobby it looked nice, but after you left the lobby it wasn't very nice at all. The hotel beds were lumpy, the shower water wasn't very warm, it was very hot in our room, and the breakfast at the hotel wasn't very good. So we decided to try and spend as little time in our hotel room as possible. For dinner we went to a delicious Turkish restaurant. I had an organic salad, eggplant w/ penne, and a slice of new york style cheesecake. It was all very good. After dinner we went to the lower part of Central Park. I didn't know Central Park was going to be so nice. The jogger's and bike rider's created a neat atmosphere. Seeing the horses trot along was cool too. After walking around the park for a bit we turned back into the hotel. The next morning after taking a painfully cold shower and eating a terrible breakfast, we began to walk around Time's Square. The square was a lot less busier then it was the previous night. This morning we were going to see the Harry Potter Exhibit in Discovery Time's Square. The Exhibit was fantastic! All of the Harry Potter props were there including the clothes the characters wore. There were a few hands on parts but most of the stuff you couldn't touch. I can't wait to head back to the city. Next time I go I want to visit Tribeca and spend more time in Greenwich Village