SNOW DAY

Yesterday morning I came even closer to normal behavior when waking up at 9:30 AM. Nice. I started the day accompanied by my MacBook and skype, as usual (I guess I can call it usual by now??). I saw that Ellen was online (my dad's girlfriend who lives here), and I knew that she was supposed to be at work. Scrolling through facebook I saw that Ellen had said it was a "SNOW DAY" in New York today. Cool! I always wanted to experience this (or actually since I first learned about it last winter in Stockholm when an american exchange student commented on the fact that there was "4 feet snow and -22 degrees fahrenheit (which is about -30 degrees celsius)" and "still not a snow day, it is ridiculous"). Today in New York there was not anywhere near that amount of snow, but still... Snow day. Can't believe that it was such crap timing though, I start school tomorrow. Oh well, I am not really bummed since I want to go to school. I took photos of the worst snow outside my door, just so that you Swedes reading this blog can get a good laugh.

Being a snow day it felt completely in order to just stay in and chat on skype, watch series and eat ice-cream. I went out and bought snapple, milk and ice-cream. On my way back a "gangster-harlem"-dude with baggy jeans stopped me and was like "oooooooo, you sexy. mmmm. damn, get some suga' over here. Damn you beautiful. how you doing?". When I replied: "Just fine thank you, how about yourself? oh, and I appreciate the compliments". Then I went on home (a couple of doors away).
Oh, and I will admit, I had the entire box of ice-cream for lunch and although it made me slightly nauseous, I loved every bit of it.

In the evening yesterday, I had a dinner date with a friend of mine from Stockholm, Benjamin, (I got to know him there, but he is actually from Luleå (way up north). I brought Rebecka along and we went down to his hood at 7th avenue and 19th street. An express train took us to 14th street, and we got there in about 20 minutes (which is quite fast, luckily it was on "our" line, the red one (no 1, 2 and 3)). After taking us across 5 streets worth of obstacle course (there are piles of snow and lakes of snow they melt by manually salting the snow (stupid)), we were in Benjamin's hood and he came down from his apartment to meet us. We went to a place which, according to Benjamin, usually is full, but today they had a table for us (the place is called Cafeteria). I was starving now (it was 8 PM and I had only had the ice-cream for lunch...), I decided on a "Passion Fruit Caipirinha with eatable flower" and a "Risotto with truffle, shrimp, green asparagus , cherry tomatoes and parmesan cheese". Everything was delicious! Truly awesome!

 Caipirinha.

 My room-mate Rebecka.

Benjamin.

We had a nice time eating, drinking and chatting (I only had that one drink though) until about 10 PM, when we got a train home. Only local trains were running at this hour so it took a bit longer (about 45 minutes). We amused ourselves with taking photos, playing a bit of Angry Birds and talking about the nuns (or sisters perhaps) that were standing next to us (there were three of them listening to an older guy speaking and me and Rebecka could both see how they laughed smooth and desired him (We found this really funny).

 I mean, if we have to sit on the train for 45 minutes, we might as well amuse ourselves.

I fell asleep at half past 11 PM (almost right after we came home, and in the middle of writing this blog post) and woke up at 9:20 AM today. I will start my first class today at 12 Noon (no snow day today), so I should go get ready. I will of course write and tell how it went! Graduate course in Bone Physiology, I am very excited!



/Yan in the Apple