First Day in Brooklyn

traveling was kind of a nightmare. i had a 9.30 am direct flight, but it was overbooked, so they asked four people to transfer to a different flight. the later flight was only at 10.20, so i ended up taking it. they gave me a 400$ free voucher, so i guess i'll be traveling a little more this year! i also got a free lunch, thanks to the milwaukee airport. it wasn't very tasty though.

i ended up having to fly through detroit, which sucked because the plane ended up having computer problems. they tried to fix it, but then had to replace it with a new one. they had us sit on the plane for a half hour, then de-plane us, so we had to get off the plane and wait for ten minutes while they took care of it. i was exhausted, running on no sleep, super cranky. then went i finally got to jfk my luggage was missing- i stood around for an hour watching everybody else's luggage get picked up and then finally went to the counter. i should've just done that first, turns out my luggage had come on the earlier flight without me. it was in overflow.

can you tell how exhausted i look?

i'm temporarily staying in a house in flatbush, near brooklyn college., with a family that rents out to exchange students. it's pretty far away from i need to be so i'm hoping that i find somewhere else soon, but it's interesting while i'm there. the neighborhood's really diverse, with lots of huge and beautiful old houses. i'm staying in a blue room on the third floor. after eating chinese with the family i'm staying with, i went to go meet Chris and a few people from NYSP. we were planning on going to see la boheme at the lincoln center, but i ended getting so lost in my neighborhood trying to find the subway! i literally walked around for an hour, which was pretty pathetic since it's literally three blocks away. what actually ended up going wrong was that i turned the wrong way out of my house going down the street and then repeated the directions that way. i had to use VW navigator on my phone to get back.

it took awhile to get into manhattan on the Q. but crossing the brooklyn bridge and seeing manhatten's city lights before me lifted any tiredness and low spirits i might have had. i know it's cliche, but it was beautiful. this is what i've been planning to do even before i started at the corcoran when i met rachel fick. it's amazing to actually be here. i know i sound all starry eyed and optimistic, but i guess i pretty much am.

it's only a crappy cellphone picture, but still.