The last few days have been average. Obviously by average I’m ignoring the fact that I’m in a country where people may as well speak a different language half the time, I’m not surrounded by the people that I spend most of my time with normally, and I’m hungry because I am in possession of no more than one dollar and I’m not working tonight.
Most of Wednesday and Thursday was spent recalling the story of my little trip to Manhattan to everyone, and trying to explain that I wasn’t that bothered about my situation when I woke up. The past two days have been hectic though – yesterday I worked from 8am until 4.30pm (a working day), and then again from 6 ‘til 11.30. Today I had to start at 8am again, and didn’t even notice my alarm was going off until five to eight. (Another weird fact – Americans don’t use phrases like “5 to”, “25 past”, “half past” or “quarter to”; they always say the time in hours and minutes e.g. “10.50”.)
Most of Wednesday and Thursday was spent recalling the story of my little trip to Manhattan to everyone, and trying to explain that I wasn’t that bothered about my situation when I woke up. The past two days have been hectic though – yesterday I worked from 8am until 4.30pm (a working day), and then again from 6 ‘til 11.30. Today I had to start at 8am again, and didn’t even notice my alarm was going off until five to eight. (Another weird fact – Americans don’t use phrases like “5 to”, “25 past”, “half past” or “quarter to”; they always say the time in hours and minutes e.g. “10.50”.)
I think that by the end of tomorrow, I will have clocked up over 40 hours for this week, despite having 2 and a half days off. Apparently next week’s going to be even worse though, as next week is Liberty Bell week, a 5 day event that runs at three country clubs in the area to celebrate 4th of July. I’ll probably get 60 hours work out of it, despite having Monday, Tuesday and half of Wednesday all off.
On the plus side though, this will easily pay for the guitar which I bought off ebay a couple of days ago. I’ve been here for over two weeks now, and I’m getting urges to bang some a funky riffs on one of my Fenders. So I bought a shitty little hollow body Les Paul rip-off, in the hope that this will suffice until I can afford something better.
The plan for tomorrow is to go into Manhattan again, and go to Central Park and the Empire State Building. Hopefully I’ll make it home in one piece this time!
Finally, I saw this on one of the member’s cars and lol’d
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