Tuesday: woke up at 1am and was fully awake. I tried to pull my self together and “force” my self to sleep, but with no luck. Tried with some nice and slow music, didn’t help either. So I lay awake, was extreamly hungry and pretty mad at the whole situation. My roomie still hasn’t showed up. Abbey our head instructor told us that EVERYONE was going to get a roomie. So I kind of got a little nervous for her, even though I didn’t know who she was.
4.30am my door goes up, I was still awake, course. And in came Yara, a brasilian au pair. She told that she had traveled for over 24 hours because og cancelations and delays. So at 5am she went to bed and would only get 2 hours of sleep. I still couldn’t fall asleep.
A little to 7 I went to get a shower, and almost have to fight to get a restroom. But Eventually I got my turn. The classes begins at 8am and then it all began. The hours are long, and a bit boring. I know basically it all and there are so many in our au pair group (we are 29 girls) who can’t say anything in English. The French don’t want to speak in English and keeps to themselves so they can speak French. I have come in pretty good contact with Mette the other Dane ND 3 German Au pairs – Lisa, Kristin and Rebekka.
In the lunch break, which by the way is 2 hour long, we all went to central park, which is just down the road. So that’s just awesome. A really beautiful park and I can even see it from both my room and the hallway window. We went for a walk and took photos and just had a really nice time. Back to class, which didn’t end before a little over 6pm.
Then it was some dinner and later a big red sightseen bus were picking the 29 of us up. Really cool. I was really exhausted because of the jetlag which I really wasn’t prepared for. We sat in one of the closed buses, so most of the pictures were taken out of the back of the bus which was a little open. We saw/ drove by all the important sights; Brooklyn Bridge, 9/11-memorial, all the important skyscrapers, Broadway etc. it was nice, The guide Matt was okay and gave us some “tips” on where to go shop. Even though Shopping is absolutely out of the question since room in the suitcase is non-existing . When I got home, I actually
wanted to blog, but every 30th second my eyes shut. So I decided not to blog and went to sleep. After only 3 hours of sleep in 48 hours and no food my body was about to shut down. I got some sleep but was awake many times. We sleeps in bunks, and every time we just move a slight it just makes so much noise. It’s squeaking and it’s like there is plastic bags folded around our beds which is scratchy. Plus my roomie were talking and screaming in her sleep, I think she had a nightmare. At least I got some sleep :)
Well Wednesday morning I got up, and it was fine. Then I got a really disgusting breakfast, Breakfast-burger. A bun with egg, bacon and cheese. Really not what I wanted but they didn’t give us any other choices.
Then headed for class, which were some of the most boring thing ever in my life. It’s så logic things which we go through. I’m really not happy about the whole workshop, I think it’s completely waste of time. It’s really nice get to know all the other girls. Who would have thought that I would become friends with Germans?! Yeah, your read correct, Germans! Really, really nice girls, I hope I’m going to keep contact with them.
In our lunch break, we five girls. Mette, Kristin, Lisa, Rebekka and I went to “Shake Shake” We got a burger, fries and a shake. It was seriously a small burger for that price. But it tasted SO good and made me full so fast. So it were really worth the money!
Back to school, had a little about crib death (SIDS) and was told that shaking a baby is absolutely NOT okay – surprise, surprise! Like I didn’t know that already. Well it was time for our presentation about our countries and cultures. Mette and I made the coolest map showing Denmark, a drawing with all the things Denmark is famous for and of course the Law of Jante. It became pretty funny and we had the typical fight between people from Copenhagen and Jutland. Very entertaining. For the first time, I didn’t get nervous to stand up in front of a class and present something, I actually enjoyed it and made a bit of a clownery. Very unusual for me, but changes isn’t always a bad thing. Maybe it was because I know that I’m among the best in class?
Then it was time for dinner and guess what. It was burger! That was the third meal wich contained of a burger – and also in the same day! I ate half of it because then the dessert was served: Fruit! I really liked that we got something healthy.
Basically everyone wanted to go out shopping and go to Times Square. I wasn’t really up for it. I’m not totally exhausted like the 2 other days. I just wanted a calm evening so I could blog. Mette Joined me and the Kristin and Lisa came later on. They headed for Times Square later on. While Mette and I stayed. Now sitting side by side, writing and puts pictures to order. It’s pretty nice :)
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