People as Places as People: I ♥ New York

Yes, I do love New York, but I love my sister more. Surprisingly, I use to not like New York very much. It was just too overwhelming and everything was too expensive. But last summer when I went to visit my sister at her NYU dorm, I found myself loving it more and more each day as I started recognizing the different streets, restaurants, and stores. We didn't even have to book a hotel room because of a random stroke of luck. My sister was staying in New York over the summer while her roommate moved out. The front desk noticed she was only paying for a single, while living by herself in a double, so they asked her to please move into another room. To her surprise, they accidentally moved her into a triple! She had two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen, a living room, and a clear view of the Brooklyn Bridge all to herself in the middle of New York city. That's when my mom, my brother, and I decided to pay her a visit.

That is the Brooklyn Bridge at night. Unfortunately, I did not take this picture, but that is almost exactly what the view looked like from my sister's dorm window.

My mom took this of the famous bull statue in the middle of Wall Street. She really wanted to find it and "touch it's balls for good luck." But, we could not find it for a while, so my mom had to go around with her Asian accent asking random strangers, "SCOOS ME, WHERESA BOOL?!" Eventually, we found it and she did end up "grabbing its balls."

And here are some lyrics from my song of the day! It is called "8 Full Hours of Sleep" by Against Me!.
When you sleep,
No one is homeless.
When you sleep,
You can't feel their hunger.
When you sleep,
No one is lonely in a dream.
Without classes,
Without nations [...]
And the sun's always rising in the sky somewhere,
And if young hearts should explode
From all the lies they've been told,
To live through one night like this,
I would trade it for the silence...

Ahh, isn't it just beautiful? What are your thoughts?

Tiffany

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