New YORK!!!!!!! 11:45am

Sophia's house, clinton ave, brooklyn
pietro went out for a bit, nut im lazy today, and decided to stay here and relax

hmmm, a lot of things have happened in what, three days i think, so lets see where to begin!?!?!?!?!
ok, well, after I dont know how many hours on the plain (nice plane... loads of movies, but not so much space to sleep!!!) we arrive at the JFK airport. this being at around 11pm U.S time, that is about 5am europe time (we are very tired!!!) and we go through all that stupid immigration thingy (endless cues!!!!) and pietro goes through before me, ok i wait a bit then its my turn, meanwhile pietro has been sent somewhere else, anyway, i show the guy my declaration (name, amount of money, purpose in US, where i come from ecc) and he looks at me funny and asks me where im staying... " ummmm, kinda nowhere... we are travelling around a lot, will be staying at a friends house, but we have to call her to get the address" so the guy starts laughing (protect and serve my ass!!!!!!) and tells me to get it sorted and sends me back... now pietro is in america, but they wont let me through, and pietro has sophia's (the girl we were staying at) number and i dont... little moment of panic!!!! but i get over it and calmly ask some guy to go find pietro for me and call sophia. he leaves... and doesnt come back for about 30min (another little moment of panic!!!) but then comes back saying that sophia doesnt answer the phone (third most violent moment of panic!!! not only can I not get into US but even if I could... where the fuck am I supposed to go????!!!!) ok, deep breath, so i decide its no biggy and write some stupid hotel (from the phonebook) on the declaration and they let me in. I luckily meet pietro straight away and we get out. we try calling sophia about 4 times, doesnt work, so we ask some tourist info how much a hotel costs in N.Y.............he says the cheapest is $290+tax!!! hmmmmm, (small moment in which me and pietro quietly think about sleeping under a bridge), but due to pietro's amazing internet skills, combined with my none to bad telephone skills, we find a hostel on the other side of the city (upper manhatten) for only $80 per night. well, i needent say we finally got there and passed out (it being around 8am european time!!!!).
Day after we look at the map (which by the way I have taken a photo of, but pietro went out for a bit and i dont know how to work these technical things!!!!! so you will have to wait) and think, " huh, its not that far from where we are (103rd street manhatten) and the center (2nd street)...... lets walk down there!!!!!!!" biggest error of my life, we spent about 5 hours walking (saw central park as well!!!!! very pretty) and ended up at times square (42nd street), and we were knackared. So for future info, N.Y. is HUGE!!!!!!!! manhatten is like the smallest bit of it and it probably takes about 10 hours non stop walking to go from the top to the bottom!!!!! do not attempt it!!!!
ummmmm, im getting lost here now. ok, gonna go a bit faster, and just tell you big things. We have a camera (Takk amma!!!!) its beautiful, we spent a whole 30min choosing it. After asking all the sales people which one was better (I ask "why is cannon so much more expensive??? is it a lot better???" answer: "well, if you like cannon, then yes, it is much better!" AHHHHHHHHHHH, ok, that explains so much. or this one. " so what is the difference between this camera at $145 and the one that costs $245??" well, it depends, but look, with the more expensive one I took this picture last year" (shows me a piture of a flower) "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" that makes everything so much clearer... thank you!!!! DICKHEAD!!!!!!!
anyway the point was that when pietro teaches me to put them on the net it will be a lot more fun writing, coz you will see things as well.
only other very important thing to tell you guys is...... YESTERDAY WE WENT TO SEE ANI DI FRANCO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! she is soooooooo amazing, i love her soooooooo much. i will put the pics on and tell you about her later.
Anyway, take care all, keep writing those comments


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Yvonne