whoopsy daisy

Whoopsy daisy, it's been more than a week since my last update. Truth is, I''m getting accustomed to life here and I don't really do a lot of mind-blowing stuff. I do fun stuff, sure, but that new shiny gleam is gone. So from now on, I think I will post an update every week or so. With that being said, I want to tell you guys about last weekend. We wanted to go to a concert in Central Park, and by that I mean that we wanted to see if we could catch a glimpse of the concert without buying tickets. We failed miserably, because Americans are masters in making sure people pay for things. There were fences everywhere and there was no way we could even hear who was preforming, because the bass was so loud. We did, however spot a mini Batman playing the guitar and it was the cutest thing ever. The weather was nice, so we didn't really mind that we had spent our day strolling through Central Park. We ate at a traditional diner called Bill's burgers and returned home. Sunday was laundry day, as usual and I managed to wash my colours without screwing anything up, so that's a bonus. On Monday I had my drama class and I had to play a cheerleader that had just heard that the president had been shot (the play takes place in 1963 and the murder took place in Dallas, if your catching my drift). One of my favorite lines was: "The president? Of the student council? But I just saw him in Algebra!" That play thought us that cheerleaders aren't the brightest apples in the bunch. Tuesday and Wednesday were just plain old school days and on Thursday I went to the mall with Hannah, Lina, Louisa, Annie, and Marleen. It was really funny because Annie had bought a mirror at Target without realizing she would have to take it with her the entire day. In consequence she ended up walking around with a mirror. She turned a lot of heads, that's for sure. I bought a thermos can and a dress. Because you can't party without a dress. We ended up having an unplanned dinner at a Japanese restaurant and I ate the most delicious food, I'd had in weeks. I had sesame shrimp with rice and some kind of greens. With filled stomachs we searched for a taxi. Eventually we found one, but after looking back I don't think it was a legit taxi. We had to sit in a five-person car with seven people! And that wasn't even the half of it, we also had to pay the toll (five dollars!!), something we had never had to do before. When we arrived at campus we payed him, but both Marleen and Lina had to get change. However, when he got all our bills he just drove off, without giving us the money back! Whoopsy daisy.Yesterday we had field day (which is similar to sports day in the Netherlands) and I was on the Mummies team. Of course being living corpses, we lost. We were second place during the first counting, though. We had to do games like Monster Maps (place the sticker on the right street in NY) a photo scavenger hunt (we had to take photos of a guy in a dress and a girl with a mustache) and a spelling B. Because I'm in the Cambridge program, I had to spell. But you all know about my Stopwatch Syndrome (I get nervous under pressure) and I spelled policy as P-O-L-I-C-E. Whoospy daisy. I, however, did manage to spell horrify correctly. So after being scammed by a taxi driver (we decided to split the loss and pay Marleen and Lina back), my shopping in the mall and the delicious food, I was pretty much broke. The consequence is, that I don't want to spent money to go partying tonight (because the average cost of going to a party is 50 dollars, which is a lot, because I need to pay to do my laundry, to buy water, to eat lunch etc.). So I'm staying on campus tonight, which is good because I'm really tired. And on the plus side, now I get to save money. I slept until twelve today, went to brunch and decided to go to the swimming pool. When I got there, I was told that I needed to wear a swimming cap to get into the pool. The sign, however, said that I needed a swimming cap if my hair was longer than shoulder-length, but as most of you know my hair doesn't reach farther than my shoulders. I told the life-guard (yes, there's a life-guard for those three people in the pool) but she wouldn't hear of it. Thus I was forced to buy an ugly swimming cap for two dollars. Of course, not expecting to have to pay anything I didn't have any money with me. Whoopsy daisy. So I had to give her my ID (it's practically the most important thing you posses here on campus, save for your passport and room key of course) and after I had swum for an hour, I had to go to my room, get my money and go back to the swimming pool to receive my ID. It was quite a venture. Tomorrow is Sunday and y'all know what that means, exactly: laundry! So excuse me while I go separate my darks and my whites.

Yours truly,