Yankees Game

Here are some pictures from the Yankees game in the new stadium! We were in bleacher seats in the outfield which weren't half bad! The only downer was that they were right in the sun! I sat there for about an hour and I have a nice tan line from my shorts! (which I still have and it's been like 2 weeks!) Then I got up and walked around and went down to the field level to watch the game! I usually really like baseball games...but oh my gosh it was horrible!! The pitcher for the Yankees would stand there and hold the ball for like 4 minutes before he would pitch! It was like he was saying a prayer or something...so I couldn't take it anymore so I finally left and went shopping!!

Back

Right

Middle

Left

CLEANING!

Ok...so for those of you who know me...I hate to clean...but ya see...living here has proven to be a HUGE challenge for me.

Seem to be the only one that can clean! It's like they don't even care that there is enough hair on the floor that you could make a sweater out of it! Or that there is so much hair in the drains that THEY DON'T DRAIN...and then they are like...why is the sink not draining?? And...even though I spend 3 hours cleaning the room and bathroom (which I really hate...could barely do it when it was just mine)...5 minutes later there is hair on the SOAKING WET FLOOR (i don't know how china manages to get the floor sopping wet when she washes her damn face)...oh and not to meantion she washes her dirty underwear in the sink because she doesn't want to use the washers downstairs because she thinks they are filled with germs...oh and she doesn't think to clean because when she is at school someone comes into the dorms and cleans and when she is at home her mommy cleans ...

WELL YOU AREN'T AT SCHOOL AND YOU AREN'T AT HOME AND I AM NOT YOUR MOM!

My mom does it to when i am home but we aren't home! I learned to do it all on my own...so should you! And I also seem to be the only one who can take the garbage out...there have been 3 big trash bags sitting by the door for 2 weeks now and just yesterday china took them to the trash room down the flippin hall! Well...i think that does it for my venting! Now here are the pictures that I took while I was cleaning cause I just had to show you what I really mean and that I AM NOT EXAGGERATING!
I used 7 dry swiffer cloths, then I swept, 4 wet ones, and then 20 paper towels:
There are a lot of pictures but bare with me!!


After the dry cloths, sweeping, wet cloths and paper towels

after the dry cloths, sweeping, and wet cloths

the 1st glob of hair from the bathroom floor
(there were 3)

wet #1

wet #2

Room floor dry cloth #1

room floor dry cloth #2

room floor dry cloth #3

hair covered floor (i know its hard to see small but click and it will show up in the big one!)

base of the sink (covered in water and hair!)

in front of the toilet (wet and covered in hair!)

close up of back near the door

next to the sink and toilet (wet and covered with hair! seeing a pattern??)

front of the toilet

shower, shower curb & floor (wet and covered with hair! and no that is not from someone taking a shower it is from china just using the sink!! )

base of the sink

sink and toilet

in front of the toilet again

7 dry cloths

Hair clump #3

dry cloth #4

hair clump #2

dry cloth #5


dont have pictures of dry #6&7 or wet #3&4

I'm still alive!

okay I'm not dead just keep forgetting to update this. Lots of things have happened and I promise to update! Bye for now!

Peace and Love,

Whit

Sunday in the City!

Well...Today I went on an adventure. First, I got up and decided I really wanted to go to church...I know so unlike me! So I get up and get ready, and about have a breakdown and want to punch my hand through the wall because my roommate is unbelievably annoying (that will be another post) And so I got ready and I wasn't 100% sure what subway line to take so I figured I would take it up to 34th and then from there I would just take a cab and then see for sure which subway station was close and which line to take. So I tell the driver where to go, and we start driving and driving, and get stuck in some traffic so we jot over a few streets to Amsterdam and then drive uptown, and I start looking at the street signs and realize that we are WAY past 65th...and we are actually approaching 133rd!!! Yeah...I think he heard me wrong or something and was heading to 145th?? maybe? I dunno, so I tell him to just let me out on the corner of 133rd and Amsterdam...and at this point I am thinking to myself...Great Whit, you are in HARLEM!! WAY 2 GO!! So I have no idea where a subway station is, and I had seen maybe 1 other cab....so luckily a cab had just dropped some people off and I was able to hail him down. This time I told him a simple address, and VERY clearly Central Park West and 65th please!! (on they way i spotted a great farmers market on Columbus which I must check out sometime!) So he lets me out, and I look down the street and low and behold, the church is just where I thought it would be (its the YSA ward inside the temple complex) and by this time it was about 1:40ish and sacrament meeting was soon to be over, and I was really quite bummed. But I wanted to go over to the park anyway since I was up there, so I had taken a book and some flats to change into, so I go and find a bench in the shade, and start reading my book (The Mourning Dove: A story of love by Larry Barkdull. My mamma gave it to me to read and I read the whole thing in the park and let me say it was one of the best books I have read in a really long time. I highly recommend reading it!) A couple hours later, I had finished and got up and walked around the park a bit, and let me tell ya, it was PACKED with people. I took my time and meandered over to 5th Avenue and looked at all my stores that I can only dream that one day I will be able to actually buy something instead of just looking. Then I just took my time walking 5th and then I jotted over to Avenue of the Americas, and they had the whole street shut down for a little market thingy which was very convenient! I shopped around a little and got a cute bag! Then I headed over to Times Square, and it was packed as usual but this time they had a whole section blocked off (more than the "new times square" section) for people to watch the broadcast of the Tony Awards). So I got on the train and headed home, and when I get there to my surprise my roommate is fast asleep, with the AC OFF at 7:00!! Ya, I'm not joking. (one day when I really need to vent I will write a post about my two roommates, and yes we are in the same room...and sharing a bathroom...and just thinking about it is driving me insane!!!) So now I am waiting to see if I am going to head up the the East Village and say hi to Kris and Danny (some family friends) and Linda (from the Hat Shop), and waiting to see if I hear from NYC boy (aka Scott) to maybe go to a movie, I dunno.

As far as my internship goes, let me tell ya...they are thinking of maybe a reality show...and we have all the drama you need! JK It is actually REALLY cool. Just being there makes me feel like even though I am tacking on labels or running uptown to pick up dresses from Conde Nast, or running to Staples, I am special! haha I still kind of feel like the odd man out, but things are getting much better and I am hoping this week everyone will stop looking at me like "WHO IN THE H*** IS THAT?" haha It has defiantly been an adjustment for me, which I expected somewhat, but I am usually not one to necessarily hold to my Mormon ways, but just the nature of discussions and language is really different, even for an office. It's nothing I can't handle, but just a little different. But looking back on the past week now, it really wasn't that bad! I am interning with an actual designer, and I have actually met him!! How many people from Farmington, Utah can say they have done that?! And I just have this reassuring feeling that there are going to be great things that are going to come of this!!

After being here a week, I can now say I truly feel like a New Yorker, although some people have asked me where I'm from. (I guess cause I am always saying sorry, and please and thank you, and excuse me, and just being generally nice) But people have stopped asking me if I want to go on tours or see shows and stuff like that, and I am getting the subway thing down!! Yeah!! So I am hoping that by the end of the summer I will feel 110% like a New Yorker and I will be able to navigate this place with my eyes closed!!

Well that was super long, but what can I say!

And now for some pictures!!




"Nobody hates Saks!"



"Aww...Bendels"



"You had me at Little Blue Box"!!




5th Avenue...So pretty!

Good ol' Louis!

"I don't like to use my weapon unless there's like a really good sale at Bergdorfs..."

The Plaza...enough said!

An ice cream truck...no longer just for the suburbs!

The park

A few baseball games

The park again!

The park...and all the people

Mini version of Woodstock!