New Yorkers are nice.

Since my classes at Kaplan were about 2 weeks after I got here, I've been trying to lose time walking around downtown. ( I've been here before many times, so I know some places in ny and know how to travel by subway as well ).
 Yesterday, I wanted to pick up my cellphone that my mom left with a guy for it to be unlock, but it wasn't ready yet until Saturday, so I decided to go to Union Square by myself to buy stuff. I always have trouble finding a specific store that I want to go 'cause I have a hard time understanding how avenues, streets and venues run, or how long they are, I mean, I do know where to get off in the subway, but once I get out, I just try to follow my instict, which is stupid, 'cause that's mainly how people get lost. The best thing you can do is ask, no matter if you look stupid or a 100% tourist, 'cause one of the things I've learned by doing that, is that people really are nice!, and the fun thing is that they're not all american, you may find indiands, arabians, mexicans, dominicans, you name it, but once they finish explaining you how to get to where you want to go, they have a smile in their face, as if they were pleased to help somebody, and their smile also speaks for their love for New York City and its people, whether they're residents or tourists. I always want to take a picture of the people who help me out, but I am shy to ask them if I can take a picture of them, and afraid that they actually might get mad at me. ( hey, you never know, and no, I'm not talking about african-americans, they're as cool and nice as any other person from any part of the world can be c: )

So once I got to Union Square, I entered this store called DSW, for me it's like Macy's but cheaper.. and it has this huge windows leading to the park that's in front, and I swear I can just sit in the l seats they offer there starring at the beauty that the huge mass of people offer. It's just amazing, and it reminds me of a picture with a quote a friend tagged me on facebook before I moved here.

" Something's always happening here. If you're bored in New York, it's your own fault" 

Plus, when you stare from the wall-like windows, it's as if a huge IMAX 3-D screen is placed 1 inch from your face.
So then, I stepped out of the store, found nothing to buy at the Forever 21 store that's aside DSW 'cause since it was 7 pm, the store was fully invated by crazy girls, and therefore, I decided to go visit Barnes and Noble that's just across the street, and bought " Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert, the whole book it's based on a true story by the author herself, and it's a true source of inspiration for LIFE AND BALANCE. I think that's why is now a major motion picture :-) and I'm glad it is, I always enjoy watching movies based on books, but I don't want to see the movie 'til I first finish reading the book.

Oh, hey Manhattan,

As I'm writing this, it's cloudy outside in the streets of Dyckman Street and reggaeton music is playing non-stop outside. I've just change of room to pleseantly hear Regina Spektor on my laptop. It's all I have by now.

It's been only a week and a half since I left Monterrey to never come back( just in vacations ); as a mexican being a U.S. Resident, one of the things you can get advantage of is: GO TO COLLEGE; and I do. I do want to go to college, but I think I used my desire to go to college as a reason to escape the bloody hell of overprotection, criticism, stress and non-confidence I was leaving at my home in Monterrey. It's always been like that for 18 years, always have to hide my friends, lock my laptop screen, and lie, lie, lie. Reason 1: The overprotective and closed-mind of my dad. Reason 2: My sister thinks and acts as if she were a bad stepmother taken directly from a soap opera. Reason 3: Non-confidence placed on me, because I don't get the chance to show I am mature enough 'cause I am the little one running in the family. Plus, in the past 5 years, Monterrey has been turned into shit, since the mafia (a.k.a. drug lords) are now "running" the city as if they were an authority just because they have cholos paid to point at people with big guns publicly in the middle of the streets wearing Ed Hardy.  Fuck drugs, fuck them, fuck Monterrey, fuck insecurity, fuck the mafia, fuck politicians involved with them as well.


But oh well, that's the city of Monterrey in Mexico, and this is the city of Manhattan in New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of, and there's nothing you can't do.










 

Tim Urban

"It's never bad as you may think.

Until you're out there and you're doing it on yourown, you don't really know how to get to where you want to be, which is, you know, a positive place, and reality kinda sets in, like this isn't a joke"

-Lee Dewyze.

Billionaire

I wanna be a billionaire

So freakin Bad

Buy all the things I never had

I wanna be on the cover of Forbes magazine

Smiling next to Oprah and the queen

Ohh everytime I close my eyes.

I see my name in shinning lights

A different city every night

Oh I, I swear the world better prepare

For when im a billionaire

Marry me

Lee Dewyze

Lovely

New York: June 13th.

If I was crying in the van, with my friend, it was for freedom,from myself and from the land.
I made a lot of mistakes
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mindset
All things know, all things know
You had to find it
All things go, all things go

I don't need you.

No te necesito, no me importa si no confías en mi y piensas que terminaré dejando la escuela para trabajar. Jamás dejaría el estudio, no estoy estúpida.

Te callaré la boca, me ganaré becas, y seré famosa