German Girl in the US: Happy New Year !

147 days ! (still ^^)

Sooo when I arrived in NYC again, I met an aupair friend from Ithaca. Fortunately, we were allowed to stay in apartements from friends of her hostparents, so we didn't have to pay for that!

Our plan was to spend New Year's Eve on Times Square, watching the famous ball drop.

We went there around 2.30pm. There were so many people who wanted to go there! It was crazy. The police already closed several streets so it was a challenge to even get on Times Square. We went back to 50th street and had to wait there with a lot of other people. Then, the police told us to move to 51 street and it looked like a mass invasion. So many people. And we weren't even on Times Square yet!

After another waiting period they finally let us in. But we were standing extremely far away from where everything happened. It was so crowded that it was sometimes hard to breathe. Also, you didn't even have to stand. There were so many people that the crowd somehow kept you upright. It was crazy.

After waiting and waiting and waiting, we moved forward. After two security checks and even more waiting, we reached our final position. Now we were so close that we were able to see the ball when it was lifted to its position at 6pm. Nevertheless we noticed quickly that we couldn't see the stage or hear anything that was said there. You'd think that NYC is able to install a few monitors and speakers on TIMES SQUARE (which kinda consists of monitors), but nope. We stayed there till something after 7pm, but then we decided that it's not worth it to stay there. In the cold. Surrounded by a million people. Without seeing anything except from a ball.

the blue thing in front of the red monitor is the ball

So we went back to the apartement to warm up, eat chocolate and chips and to drink to New Year's Eve! (being underage in the US really sucks)

As midnight was approaching, we walked to Central Park to see the free fireworks there. It was spectacular! Great fireworks. And there were also quite a lot of people.

Afterwards, we went to the apartement again, ate pizza (yay pizza delivery at 1am xD) and went to bed.

Although we didn't spend New Year's Eve on Times Square as planned, it was a lot of fun!

On January first, we went to the Guggenheim museum which was really interesting. We also walked through Central Park and went to see the 9/11 memorial.