a legal alien (New York & Connecticut)

Hey there,
how are you doing?

So, just after I landed in Dubai from Cape Town, I went to New York the next day and stayed there for two and a half days. My flatmate, Paula joined me as a passenger and stayed in my hotelroom. It was RAD, a mini-holiday. This time around, I saw a little bit of nightlife, went to a few pubs and spoke to Americans that always guess us to be British. It rained, and saw the steam come out of drains.

We also went to Connecticut (just outside New York) to go visit a friend of mine (Tony) and experienced the suburbia side of America as seen on movies (man, everything there feels to me like living in a movie). Tony showed us the beach, we drank some beer in a pub (I had the most amazing beer ever - Blue Point. It is an ale and the aftertaste is blueberry), and we had a braai (whoohooo). We did some groceries shopping for this, and it was again such an awesome experience, finding different and interesting things. Then to my amazement, Tony took us to the self-service check-in counter, where we scanned and weighed our own stuff. It was cool! Even experienced the self-service petrol station:).


Back in NYC, walked around for many, many avenues, popped into the Apple store to see what that is all about, went around Time Square again, and ended up in Wholefoods at Columbus Circle where Paula and I went crazy. Everything there is organic, healthy and supercool. We bought bags full of turkey, bacon, chicken (all vegetarian), interesting kombucha drinks, I found Blue Point there and bought a 6-pack, a few organic facial products and some sushi for lunch. It was WONDERFUL!! Paula even took me into Abercrombie & Fitch (the American "lifestyle" clothing shop). What an experience. You walk in, and EVERYONE who works there, is beautiful, happy, dancing to the loud banging music, smells of strong perfume and by the time you exit, you remember that it was sunlight and normal life outside, hehe.

So, new respect to America (I used to be a bit negative towards it)
Best of luck to them in choosing a new president.

Anyways, for now, I'm on standby for the rest of the month - which means I don't know when I'm going and I don't know where I'm going. It's a crazy life:)

Loving it

Toedeldoe,
till next time

A