Top 5 Reasons I'm Going to Miss NYC (In no particular order)
5. The people. This city is full of some bat shit crazy people. Forget watching Maury or Jerry Springer--take a walk outside and it will likely earn similarly amusing results. Alternatively, it could be scary. My lovely moment on the park swing turned sour when a man ranting with a crazy look in his eye walked in and started angrily kicking around a piece metal.
4. The food. Each neighborhood has it's own taste of home which becomes the New Yorker's own unique flavor, like a chameleon of cuisine. I've already had my last Cubano and Pernil in Spanish Harlem, overpriced fro-yo in Chelsea, mama's home cookin'. Still left to do: Bubble Tea and Dumplings in Chinatown, Sushi in Jtown (I'll never get sick of it!). Does Trader Joes count? New Yorkers surely love cheap prices too.
3. The subway. It's not so much that I will miss its structure (as lovely as it is), rather I'll miss the feeling of knowing exactly what train to take where and what transfer to make. Japan's metro system is daunting. I don't know if you know this, but it's in Japanese.
2. Being walking distance from everything. And knowing how to get there. Kind of like #3.
1. MY PEOPLE. You know who you are.
Top 5 in Japan
5. See drunken salary men. Maybe it will help me understand my father a bit more. Plus, they gotta be hilarious.
4. Travel. After years of looking down on tourists, I'm ready to be one! Shrines, temples, Mt. Fuji, kabuki plays, a Japanese baseball game, shopping--I want to do it all.
3. Cultural emersion. I want to understand the Japanese ethos that has always been attractive to me. In everything they do: business, art, food, family, love...there seems to be something complete and beautiful that they give of themselves.
2. MEET ARASHI. /End fangirling.
1. EAT DERICIOUS THINGS. As my good friend would say.
I meant only to write in the blog post-departure, but I'm just so terribly excited/anxious/nervous. Maybe writing pointless things alleviates the tension in my brain.
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2 Comments:
Hope you see/experience all the stuff on this list while you're there! :) And while you're gone i'll tell all the crazy people to save all their antics for your return hahaha
I always miss New York City, and I'm just 5 hours away by Amtrak. Well, I think it's all the same when you can't go home anyway. Although it's not the same when everyone in the country you are in speaks Japan. Not to mention the continent of Asia.
But let's not get into that. You named some good NYC ones. Walking distance is probably the best. As long as you know where the train stops are, which we really do. xD
Watch out for those drunk salary men. I don't think they will mess with a Party Rican though! You should wear one of those Party Rican bandanas with the flag on it.
Lol I'm just playing.
As for Arashi- If only. Gyahhhhh. @__@
Favorite songs so far:
1. Pikanchi Double
2. Happiness
3. We Can Make it!
4. Beautiful Days
5. Sakura Sake
I could keep going with that list. T^T
