2.25 Hours left until departure. I'm abit nervous meeting my host family, I guess we all are. The last days at
the New York Training School we had some more classes concerning
childcare and even a first aid Training including CPR given by Bruce who
was quite rude and somehow really funny, so at least at the beginning
it was nice, later we only watched some boring videos and fell asleep
because karaoke the night before was pretty exhausting haha (between two
or three great singers it was just a lot of screaming).
After Lunch we took some Buses to NYC yesterday. It
might seem stupid to say that but I'm overwhelmed how american America
is. Along the streets (outside of a big city) there are lots of
beautiful sceneries, houses, parks, signs of Diners that deserve to be
in a music video. In NYC our tour guide Tony wore some high-end-fancy
glasses guided us to the Statue of Liberty that looks like a miniature salt shaker, World Trade Center, Central Park West, Times Square and
Rockefeller Center - the Top of the Rock is really really breathtaking.
Up the 67th floor you cannot see any human being down the streets
anymore. It's a gorgeous feeling, I could've stayed there for hours.
Afterwards Alicia and I discovered 5th Avenue, ate a typical real slice
of Pizza at the best Pizza in town (at least that's what the sign said
above the pizza place) and bought a Double Chocolate Vanilla Cone at one
of these ice cream trucks, not aware that they're way too expensive
(but tbh I have no feeling for the metric here yet, so maybe it was only a little bit too expensive). Meeting at Empire State Building (which we didn't
recognized when we were in front of it because you can't see the
recognizable top) we took - completely tired and with hurting feet - the
bus home at 9pm. And, well, luckily we've been on bus #2! Cause bus #5
has had a crash. No one got hurt, but they had to wait for the police
and a new bus and got home really late.
This morning we had breakfast at 5:30am
and departed one hour later in the most luxury and comfortable bus I've ever been
on! It was hardcore chic, ugh, amazing to get some more sleep.
So now here we are, at LaGuardia airport, sitting in big black chairs and waiting for our Flights to depart.I feel like now it's really beginning.
The TS had just been a delay, now it's getting serious. I feel
nervous to meet a family that I technically don't really know despite
the Skype calls and everything, and boy I'm going to live with them for a
whole year! Yes, it is still unreal. But I'm super excited and just
unbelievably happy that it is starting right now!
Love,
Elske
