NYC/Cobleskill

I have had quite a busy week, Last Friday I left for NYC, boy was that an adventure. I was unable to see my old friends from high school Friday night, but I had some good times Saturday. I started by meeting Bridget at Penn Station, she saw me first, and she snuck up behind me and kinda scared me. Next we met Cobleskill at Bryant Park, I then set off to explore the city with Laura and Bridget.

We first walked through Time Square, and wandered around. We stopped at Starbucks, and Toys R Us. we continued to walk the city, and walked up 5th avenue towards central park. On our trek up 5th Ave we stopped at the Gap to warm up, then we stopped at FAO Schwarz which had an incredibly long line just to get into the store. but it went quick :)

We then crossed the street and went into Central Park. I was parched so I decided to go and get myself a water, and Bridget and Laura sat down on a bench. I then walked in their direction and sat down on the bench next to them, and just then some guy walked by us singing a song and shot us a smile and he was missing one of his front teeth. It was quite funny.

We continued on and walked past a skating rink where they were announcing the rules, it seemed as though there were 2 hours worth of rules, so whats the fun?

Next we walked north and we saw Strawberry Fields a memorial for John Lennon. Continuing on we Belvedere Castle which now serves as the weather station for central park. We climbed up to the top of the castle, which overlooked the Great Lawn. It was quite a view.

We winded our way back out of the park, and onto Eighth Avenue. we wandered our way back onto Broadway, and attempted to find a place to eat. We eventually found this pizza place and I pointed to the pizza that I wanted and the guy behind the counter said 2 slices of vegetarian pizza? I was like thats not vegetarian pizza he was like yes it is... it has mushrooms broccoli and spinach. I looked closely at it and I was like thats some pretty odd vegetables. he was so sincere about it somehow I believed him, and I was like no thats alright I don't want that, and he continued to put the pizza into the oven to heat it up, and I was like no I don't want that and he shot me a smile, and I realized he was only joking. I felt like quite an idiot, I don't find myself a gullible person, but he pulled it off so well.

We then made our way back down Broadway and towards 42nd street where we found our way back to Bryant Park where we hung out with Laura and met up with some other Cobleskill people while they waited for their bus. After Cobleskill Left I made my way to the bus station and headed home.

I was also very sad I was unable to see Jess Wong I haven't seen her since I graduated... but she is very busy these days :(

Today (Wednesday December 5th) I went to Cobleskill to do my internship presentation. I arrived around 12 and stopped into the Student Life Center were nobody thought it was out of the ordinary when I walked in at first. I guess I hadn't been gone that long. Well I stayed there for 15-20 mins and then got ready for my presentation.

I headed up to Warner where I sat in a classroom for 3-4 hours and watched others present. I was towards the end because it was done alphabetically I would have preferred to be one of the first, but whatcha gonna do?

Well finally I went and I was so nervous. My internship didn't exactly go as planned do to the delayed launch of Red Rover, so I didn't do much along the lines of Network Administration. It was accepted by the faculty and it went over much better than I expected. :)

I went back to the SLC to change out of my business attire, and I then departed Cobleskill. Leaving wasn't so easy, I felt really bad that I couldn't stay and visit with people longer than I did. :(

I hope to visit Cobleskill again VERY SOON...