As I spend some time here in New York, I'm gradually exploring. It's been great this week having one of my high school friends and his sister out here to start to see the city. Tuesday night I met up with them at Macy's which is on 34th in Herald Square, and last night we met up in Times Square. Holy crap, I loved Times Square and would like to live there please. We ate at Bubba Gump's (overpriced but decent) and then they had gotten us 3rd row seats to see Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark which is the $65 million musical that has become a national punching bag. I guess it just reopened after some major re-tooling and...O.M.G. I loved it, and I want to go back! The spectacle of it was worth going, as it was unlike anything I had ever seen. The actors were all fantastic, music was eh - left a bit to be desired, but the story was solid, and once again - the stage was sooo cool!
The whole point of this is...the more I see the more I love. I was really nervous I would get out here and hate this city, but I really don't. I don't know that I would actually like to live here for more than the summer (ask me in ten weeks, but having grass and not having police sirens echo off tall buildings are still very important to me), but for now I'm so happy for the experience.
Day by day I'm getting more comfortable with the my job. Just doing random administrative tasks for now is really helping me get to know how the building works, so I definitely appreciate that. For the most part we've set my hours at 12-5 Sunday and Tuesday-Friday, with flexibility. I very much appreciate not starting until noon (those who know me know I'm not a morning person). The student assistants (SAs) I'll be working with all seem nice, helpful, and fun so far, and I'm glad to gradually be getting to know them. Tomorrow could prove to be stressful as my primary supervisor who is also the Residence Hall Director is going on vacation for 2 weeks to Italy (uber jealous), so I'm just hoping everyone comes together and we pull off our first check-ins very well this weekend! I'm sure it will be fine, they've been pretty good so far with details.
That's all for now. I did find out I'll be getting more of a campus tour next week and meeting up with the other ACUHO-I Intern for the summer who doesn't start until next week, so that's exciting! I'll post another update soon, hope I'm staying somewhat entertaining!
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