New York - a first impression

It’s March sometime and my best friend Josh suggests that we escape to NY over spring break. Daniel, a friend of ours from back at UCLA is studying (I use this word losely) law at Cardoza and offered up his place. Seemed innocent enough…

Below is a day-to-day, rambling account of what went down. It’s more to jogg my memory, than incite the reader.

Josh booked tickets to maximize our time in NY, while at the same time maximizing the amount of *red-eye* a redeye flight could extoll. We left LA at 9:45pm to arrive in NY at 5:50 am Wed. The idea was that we would be able to roam the streets and get a head start at site seeing. Well, that was the idea anyways. The reality was that we were so shot that all we could think about was sleep. After waking Daniel from his rest of a few hours (6:30am), we unload our baggage and grab some desperately needed breakfest. Josh at this point hadn’t gotten a wink of sleep (NCAA tournament on JetBlue) so we drop him off at Daniel’s place and hit the streets for a personal tour. Soonmi, Daniel, and I check out …. bakery, famous for it’s cup cakes and random appeances in “Sex and the City”.

We get back to Daniel’s place and sleep gets to the best of us. We’re knocked out until 3pm. I get up, but it seems that everyone just wants to sleep. After a little whining, I get everyone up and out for exploring!

That night we went to grab some Japanese food and sent Soonmi on her way home to her friend’s home in the Bronks. We headout for drinks at the Resovior across the street from his dorm.

Thurs. Next day, we get an earlier start. Soonmi comes over and we go to the MET. That night, Cardoza has some sort of Asian American conference and
afterwards free food and drinks.

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We meet this girl, Cheryl who takes us to Bob’s where we run in to this girl we saw at the MET. Josh gets her number and that’s where Dandan enters the picture.

Fri.Josh and I head down to check out the brooklyn bridge. bible study. apt, trust.

Sat. recless drinking 21 pints of beer and 5 sakes later…

Sunday. repentance

Monday. concernts at juliard, dating… and one messed up hyung.

Tuesday. Sigh, Last day in New York. Josh is recovering from the worst hangover of his life. He swears never to do it again and wants nothing more than to sleep through the day. Let’s just see…. Soonmi goes over to Regan’s place at about noon to pick up her stuff. She get’s back at about 4pm and we’re off to the airport. “Jack Daniels” is our taxi driver and get’s us there for about $45, a little more than the Jack I’m familiar with. Our flight is delayed however, some foul odor in the plane forces them to reallocate another jet. 1 hour later, 7:45, we board. The pilot insists we will land 11:30 - 12:30. in actuality we land 10:30… which makes sense. we were supposed to land 9:45 (and were delayed an hour). thanks to that, we had to wait for an hour. but not soonmi… her dad managed to fly over in 20 minutes. Of course, Josh didn’t sleep a wink on the plane. There was TV.

josh’s sister came and picked us up and then josh took me home.

One day later, josh is still feeling the night of excess.

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