New York: A brief re-entry Stateside

So I decided that I would wander over the ocean for a brief little bit cuz I had lot of time to kill. It was a great trip. It was only about ten days but lots of fun. I've never really been to New York before so being able to see it was cool. I don't think I could ever live there but it was fun to visit. I hung out with some friends there and saw my cousin for a bit. This is gonna be a shorter post, just some of the highlights of the trip, but it was a good little interlude in my European travels.
I hung out at Union Square one day and was just chilling, reading a german book and this one guys asks me what I'm reading. So I say, "it's a German book," which prompts the guy sitting next to me to start speaking to me in German. Turns out, he's Italian and speaks French, Italian, German, Spanish and English and is trying to major in art in New York. Anyway, we start talking about Europe and life in general and then a bunch of his homeless friends show up and they join the conversation and there's another kid from Spain. It was a great little European reunion. I spent a couple hours with these kids and it was eye-opening for me. All these kids were either homeless, drug addicts, really poor, or down on their luck. It was not a group that I've ever encountered or hung out with before and it was fun for an afternoon. We actually had some good conversations and compared life in the US vs. life in Europe. It just made me feel very blessed that I come from the background that I come from. I do not envy that lifestyle at all.
Another day my friend and I walked around Battery Park and gazed upon the Statue of Liberty. One day I will get there... We also walked around Central Park and saw the Metropolitan Musuem. Wow. What a building. What amazing collections in there. You could spend a week in that museum and not see everything. It was fun.

Like I said this was gonna be a short post, but one of my favorite parts of the trip was all the American food I got to eat! Hamburgers, bacon, hot breakfast food, Rootbeer, tastycakes, cheddar cheese :). I gorged myself the entire time. It was great. It was a nice, short little excursion stateside that was a reminder of the (short) list of things I missed about the States and the (ridicuously long) list of things I love about Europe. Then it was back to my Europe adventures. To be continued in the next post...