Wine in Manhattan
22 juil 2011 à 23:07 english, États-Unis, stage, vin, voyage#ARTICLE EN ANGLAIS #
In New York for 6 months, I’ll try to write a little bit about my life here. I still don’t have an adaptor for my camera and my laptop, so I can’t take any pictures for now. That’s annoying but, hey, 6 months here, I have time!
Manhattan already feels like home. I don’t need a map anymore. Every morning, I have to take the subway from Harlem to Chelsea. Breakfast at Argotea while reading the news, then I go to work.
It’s a small company that mostly imports french wine, with this family-spirit I like. The team is really friendly! No one’s older than 40, and there are other interns I can hang out with.
I arrived 5 days ago. The two first days, I stayed in an auberge de jeunesse near Columbus Circle. Brodway and its theaters and musicals, Times Square and its huge screens and ads all over the buildings, my tourist-heart was filled with love ♥
Oh, and I’ve seen the Naked Cow Boy !
Then I had to find a place. After a few visits (some of the appartments I visited were really really weird), I decided to stay in Harlem, with four roomies : a japanese guy, an american guy, a korean girl, and I didn’t meet the last one yet. The room won’t be available before August 1st, so I’m staying in the basement – a very clean and rat-free basement – with the latino familly that owns the whole building. Every evening, I get papaya smoothie and flan!
Anyway, I’ve seen so many things in less than a week, here’s a little list:
- Yellow cabs with the tv inside
- Street sellers of kebabs, donuts, smoothies, icecream and fruits… And even puppies !
- Policemen on their horses
- Lunch on a rooftop with a wonderful view on the Empire State Building
- Turtles in one of Central Park’s lake
- A kind of flahmob on Union Square
- Watertaxis, bike-takis..
- Ground Zero
- Caipirinha in a bar during Happy Hour
- Sunset on the sea over the New Jersey skyline
Oh, and I’ve met those two guys in the street, very funny, very american. They say I’ll only be a real american girl the day I’ll be able to pronounce correctly « hamburger ». And they can’t even say my name -_-’
We’re gonna hang out again next week.
Well, see you :)









