New York [100th day]
Hi. It's Illinois Panda.
Today is the fifth day of the East Coast trip and is also an anniversary day. Just a hundred days have passed since I arrived in the U.S.! Almost one-third of the exchanging program was done. I'm willing to keep running until it ends. By the way, we got up before 7 am and drove back to N.Y. today. We arrived in N.Y. afternoon, took the rental car back to the garage, and walked around downtown. We took subways so many times to go anywhere. There is a very robust subway system in N.Y., like in Tokyo. You can travel conveniently with the subway. Although, I need to notify you that the subway is very dangerous for foreign people, especially those who look Asian. Many crimes related to racism happen inside stations like attacks, robbery, discrimination, or murders. I always was with three Turkish guys, so kind of safe. While I found lots of homeless people behaving crazy at stations, in particular at night. I need to keep cautious. We walked on Times Square and visited a church first.
Then, we ate N.Y. pizza at a famous shop named 99 cent pizza. As the name indicates, we could have slices of giant pizza for a reasonable price. We had two pieces of king-size pizza and a can of soda for only $2.75. It was pretty good. After that, we visited the central park and just walked around in the city.
The city, especially around Times Square, was very bright, crowded, and crazy. This was my first time visiting N.Y., but it was familiar to me somehow. That might be because it looked very similar to Shibuya. Skyscrapers, too many people, crazy noise, bad smell... everything has in common among them. Actually, I don't like such places. The city was a very exciting and hot place, but I got tired of their bad aspects, like garbage, noise, and over-population, lol.
こんばんは。人生初のタイムズスクエアを経験してきました。率直な感想を言うと、もうお腹いっぱいです。道の至る所でパフォーマンスが開かれてたり、コスプレをしている人がいたり、ただただ騒いでいる人が居たり、ドラッグを公然と売っている人が居たり、、、とにかく賑やかでした笑 静かで落ち着くところが好きな僕からすると完全に真反対の場所だったのでかなり疲れました。明日はここで行われるパレードを見に行くので、しっかり寝て戦いに備えようと思います。最後にとてもアメリカンな写真を貼って起きます。
ではまた明日。Have a wonderful night and Happy Thanksgiving!
