Let's suck more blood, let's work 3 hours a day

I'm not taking a lot of pictures. I'm really tired and still jet lagged I think. The weather doesn't help. it's freezing and it gets dark at 4pm, like really dark. And I have really long days and by the time I get home after dinner all I want to do is sleep. I've been going to sleep lately before ten and I was waking up at 4am before but now like 7ish. If I keep this up I'm going to be a normal person with normal sleeping hours.

So I had orientation on Wednesday for international students. it was nice cause we all knew where we were coming from with the extreme exhaustion and whatnot. i was sitting next to these two exchange students from Chile. we had to go round and introduce ourselves and most everyone were graduate students doing business. not a single other person was doing English. there's a girl from UTS on exchange and she's living in the same building that I'm going to be moving into. unless she moves out, she couldn't stop complaining about how awful her room is. i also talked to two other people who are living in the same building and so far I'm the highest on 15th floor. YAY. orientation was really long and boring. it was the whole day. and then at night i had exams but by then i was so exhausted i couldn't concentrate. i think i did alright on English but i walked out of maths.

today i did a lot of boring errands such as opening a bank account and blah. but i also registered for classes. so I'm taking English, public speaking, science and painting. oh and good news..all my credits from UTS are counted so i can possibly graduate in 2010. yayy.

anyways the super awesome thing about new york is the food. you can walk into anywhere and even though it may look dodgy the food would be great..like today dad and I just went into a random Japanese place for lunch and it kinda looked like a ticketing booth but the food was the yummiest Japanese I've had in a while..

oh and i strolled through century 21, which is a discount designer department store near my uni. things there are uber cheap..like 90% off depending on what it is. there's a lot of Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, dkny, juicy couture, Michael kors, nothing too exciting and most of the stuff is pretty crappy..but you could find some things if you had the time and patience.


Lower Manhattan.


The view outside my room midtown.


Totally exhausted and cold.