I think I'm in love

This is my summer paradise. 2009 was the best year of my life. It made me become more confident and made me understand who I am better than ever and one of my best friends and especially Iulia knows that. In 2009 I studied in Germany and spend my summer in Ocean City. I managed to see a lot of USA. I've been to Atlantic City, Virgina Beach(Williamsburg), Washington, Philladelphia, Boston, Niagra Falls, New York, Los Angels, San Francisco, Grand Canion and Las Vegas. I was a rich work&travel student. I used to work 60-70h as I found a 2nd job. I was a housekeeper&laundry person at Quality Inn and a cashier/barista at Dunkin'Donuts. It was a summer I will remeber. Right now life is different. I'm not rich anymore.lol. I live in NYC working 36-40h at Liberty Island which I have to say is a lovely experience. I tried to find a 2nd job for more then 2 weeks but with no luck! Rent and MetroCard are expensive. Lunch though is free thanks to my employer!! My landlord keeps telling me I could get a 2nd job easily if I just put a diffrent outfit on. Not casual and no convers snickers! That won't be me!! Would you see me in a dress with a large v cut top and some make-up and balerina shoes or whatever you call them? I might try it but on the other hand life is to short to waste it. I'm in NYC exploring a open-minded city full o adventures! It take me 1:20h to work not 15 bike minutes like in Ocean city). It's a big city! But it's way better than Bucharest where we have the hottest summer in the last 53 years and some political issues around. So this AC subway life is way above my capital,lol. Imagine it took me a 20min walk to our "Manhattan"! My life is a energetic adventure. This week I had 3 days of(usualy I had 2 but I made it to work 10h a day 4d/w thanks to my understanding manager and schedeule planer):Mon,Tue and Wed. I was thinking first that it's bad cause I might get bored, but no sign of that. Monday was common free day to me and my roomate. We planned going to the beach or to United Nations. Did she wake up? Noooo! I'll woke up, jogged, showered and had breakfast but I couldn't get her out of bed. So I made my way to Madison Square Garden cause I needed new shoes! I bough 1 beautiful pair and was sad I could find 2 as they would take 50% off the 2nd pair. I tried my luck at the register and found out I can come back with the receipt till 8sept and get te 2nd pair discounted!Niceeee! All happy with my new shoes I had some lunch and heded towards United Nation. It was a great experience. There is so much I'm missing out! I've learebd how this organisation is build and how it manages towards a peaceful world. What impresed me the most was a plastic can with some kind of peanut butter and rice inside. We have a crisis in Africa.People die of hunger! So UN flies aroud Africa and launches this little packs thanks to the support of airline complanies like KLM, Lufthansa a.o. One Peanut Butter can saves a child. It is sweet and full of calories so it can rescue a child from death in 3 days.They also have a website: freerice.com where you could play for free and people get free rice. It is amazing! It is sponsored by a company that puts ads on the website. It's similar to facebook! What I also heard is that Beyonce is filming her new video at UN and will donate all the benefits.

"As long as one child is hungry, our life will be filled with anguish and shame.What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them..." Elie Wiesel 1986
So you might wanna go on freerice.com and spend some time doing something that has such a big impact on others life!

So after this I just walked across 5th ave so I could meet up with a friend. On my way though at Bryant Park I just stumbled across NY Public Library. Did you see any american movie that shows a library. It is as stunning as in movies. One reading room is as long as a football field. I wonder though how people can concentrate in there as so many turist come daily in and out!

Monday was a really hot day! So I decided to go Tuesday to the beach. I woke up got ready and left my house early. I'm lucky I have a 45min away bus to Rockaway beach till next week when I will hopefully move out. I got there and it was marvellous. It was really clean and quite compared to Coney Island. There is no music on the beach or anyone trying to sell you something. It just is soooo peacefull, at least at 9:30AM. The ocean water was not cold at all so I enjoyed a lovely day in the sun and water. I also convinced my landlords cousin to come with me to Chicago xD
This tough is not the end of my day.I still signed up for the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival were I volunteered. I handed out flyers and served wine in the evening afterwards getting the chance to watch a documetary film for free. ( what impressed me is that while handing out flyers I overheard an polie event that was celebrating a safer Brooklyn and evisioned a future without guns and gunshoots)It was called Hip Hop Hassid and it shows how a jewish religious person tries to speak out about the racial conflicts in Crown Heights between the Jewish and Black commuity. (It was really good!) You could try find it online it has a funny side to. So very tired I headed after these to a party which was actually a nice one. I like this parties more than in my home country as they are more cozy ones.. Although I liked it I went home early as I was exhausted and rewarded myself with a longer sleep!

And as I got to my last vacation, or actually off day which is sad I am happy to tell you that I found out that the central park is more a man build park. I hope i got that correct. I had a lovely day in the marvellous central park. It just felt like I'm in a different place. The views are just amazing and I realised I should try to eat more of my usual nutrition meels as that gives me energy an that coke is a good coffein boost although I am against it. I tried to sleep in the grass but it didn't feel comfy so I looked for a bench and found the farytail bench where I chilled and for a short nap. I love Central Park!!!! I really is amazing to walk around it. Unfortunately though this walk had to end as I had my charity:water open house volunteer night. I just was like always impressive and on my way back from the restroom I also saw Scott Harrison, CEO and founder of charity:water! I just said hi as it looked like a familiar face cause he's in all the videos and after he passed I just reallised. I wanted to be like Scott would you like to take a picture with me?haha but there was no one there and I thought it would be stupid. It was enough seeing the person that inspired me to choose NYC for my summer and for my volunteer plans. September campagne is great! I liked it but I can't share anything about it.. But keep in mind that we have a water crisis! 80 billion people don't have access to clean, safe drinking water. What if this september you give up something so with 20$ you give clean water to someone you never heard of? I will do my best and share all the September campagne as their goal is really important.

And now that I'm so exhausted and tired let me tell you I think I'm in love. (thank you for reading till this point) I actually figured out I don't fall for image as much a I fall for personalty and smartness..Right now though it is clear I get week knees in front of passionate, energic, happy and lovely people. Passion makes my interst raise and my heart to put awkward smiles on my faces. So I have the e mail adress a phone number now let's see cause I am afraid of drama.

I wanna get involved with charity:waters campagne so fingers crossed cause I wanna send them one of my ideas by the end of this week!

If you ever have questions just shoot!