Electric Lib

Tales From New York

So my journey to New York City with my economics class began yesterday morning at 7:30 when we left in three minivans headed for the big city. The car ride was full of music listening, 20 questions (on walkie talkies with the other car, most of my car got bored pretty quickly though), and more music (although, after being in the car for fives hours listening to the radio, you end up hearing the same songs quite a few times). We drove into the city to the Youth Hostel we were staying in and then rushed over to the Fed and saw all the gold! It's stored in the lowest basement of all of New York, and we were standing on the bedrock of Manhatten with gazillions of bars of gold! Nope, I didn't steal any and they didn't seem to worried that I would seeing as it would be pretty much impossible. They can shut the entire building in only 28 seconds.

From there we took the subway to Times Square and got free time to walk around (without adults! How neat is that in New York City? We were very responsible and had our personal tour guide - Abra - who directed us a gazillion blocks to this fabulous candy store). After that we walked the gazillions of blocks back (after making a quick stop at Sephora to get some make up and then having to sprint back to meet everyone) we met everyone and took the subway to where we had dinner, Carmines (which oddly enough is where we ate when I took the trip with my buddies to New York to see Abra and Julie at Carnegie). Then we pretty much wandered around for a million more years, until 12 or so (my legs were/still are SO sore). Then it was back to the Youth Hostel. But wait a minute, the fun didn't end there! Before heading off to bed Abra, Becky, I and yes Tyler and Emmett did a quick yoga session (Abra leading)! Ok so then we went to bed.

The next morning we got a taste of Jerry Seinfelds life by going to Tom's Restaraunt (which is where they always go in the show). Soon after, we headed to CNN studios for a tour then stopped to shop a bit, then it was over to where the World Trade Towers used to be. That was a very powerful moment of the trip, because it's a very historial site and it's always strange to be standing somewhere where something super important happened and to see the change that resulted. After checking that out we headed to Merril Lynch (this is of course an economics trip) and got a quick tour from one of the brokers. Then we got lunch and went back to the hostel to prepare to leave! It was a long car ride home filled with music, 20 questions (sans the walkie talkies and everyone in the car got really into it). And that brings me home! So overall it was a truly fabulous trip. I felt we really explored every economic angle - we saw the gold in the "bank for banks", we saw the stock market at work, we saw the news that reports our economic situations, we put our money into the economy by shopping, we saw neighborhoods that varied greatly in economic situations. So good work to Mr. Castle for organizing such a wonderful trip, and our two other chaperones Mr. Bate and Mrs. Beem for driving and accompanying us! Posted by lib at April 1, 2005 10:45 PM