January Analogue
January 2006
Hi Everyone,
Hope all of you in the Southern Hemisphere are enjoying the summer! Even though it’s the middle of winter here it has been quite warm, the last week has averaged the mid teens. We had a foot of snow at the very beginning of December but nothing since then, so that snow has all melted away. I finish working in just over 7 weeks and then spend 3 weeks on a cross country trip that will take me from NY to LA via the Southern States. Washington D.C., New Orleans, the Mississippi River, Grand Canyon and Las Vegas are some of the place I’ll get to go to! Since my tour doesn’t go to San Francisco and I have a friend from high school who is working as an au pair there, I am going to go and stay with her for a few days before coming home at the beginning of April.
I thought I’d find the last month really hard because it was my birthday, Christmas, and the time of year that I would always go on a camping holiday with my family; but I had a great birthday, Christmas and New Year. For my birthday I didn’t have to work in the morning and then Suzie took me out for lunch, I was the surprise guest reader in Alison’s class and had 5 friends over in the evening for dessert and then 10-Pin bowling. The on the Sunday I met up with some other friends and we went to see King Kong and The Chronicle of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe before going out for dinner. So I had a really special time.
Christmas was also a really nice time. I spent the weekend with Julie and Omega (my friends in Connecticut) and went with them to Omega’s Mother’s who lives in up-state New York. Because my host family is Jewish (so therefore doesn’t celebrate Christmas), it was really great to spend Christmas with a family who actually celebrated it. I also got my ‘White Christmas,’ there was about 2 feet of snow up where we were - but if I’d stayed on Long Island I wouldn’t have had one!
For New Year’s I had dinner in NYC with a couple of friends then we were going to head into Times Square to see the ball drop. We got to about 40th St (Times Square is 42nd St.) and found we couldn’t get any closer. Then we saw how small the ball was! If it was a nice evening we may have stayed, but because it was raining, cold and there was snow forecast so we decided we’d be more comfortable and get a better view if we watched on TV. So that’s what we did! I had a good time, so that’s what counts.
On 01/01 Sarah and I went to the American Museum of Natural History where they have a lot of full dinosaur skeletons. It was amazing to see the skeletons and how big their footprints were; it was also amazing to see the size of the woolly mammoth - it’s HUGE!!! I’ve also recently been to the ‘Top of the Rock’ (the Rockerfeller Centre). It’s pretty much the same as going to the top of the Empire State Building but you get a better view of Central Park and a good view of the Empire State Building.
Well I gotta go, but I"m looking forward to catching up with you all in a few months.
Lots of Love and God Bless
Anna
Hi Everyone,
Hope all of you in the Southern Hemisphere are enjoying the summer! Even though it’s the middle of winter here it has been quite warm, the last week has averaged the mid teens. We had a foot of snow at the very beginning of December but nothing since then, so that snow has all melted away. I finish working in just over 7 weeks and then spend 3 weeks on a cross country trip that will take me from NY to LA via the Southern States. Washington D.C., New Orleans, the Mississippi River, Grand Canyon and Las Vegas are some of the place I’ll get to go to! Since my tour doesn’t go to San Francisco and I have a friend from high school who is working as an au pair there, I am going to go and stay with her for a few days before coming home at the beginning of April.
I thought I’d find the last month really hard because it was my birthday, Christmas, and the time of year that I would always go on a camping holiday with my family; but I had a great birthday, Christmas and New Year. For my birthday I didn’t have to work in the morning and then Suzie took me out for lunch, I was the surprise guest reader in Alison’s class and had 5 friends over in the evening for dessert and then 10-Pin bowling. The on the Sunday I met up with some other friends and we went to see King Kong and The Chronicle of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe before going out for dinner. So I had a really special time.
Christmas was also a really nice time. I spent the weekend with Julie and Omega (my friends in Connecticut) and went with them to Omega’s Mother’s who lives in up-state New York. Because my host family is Jewish (so therefore doesn’t celebrate Christmas), it was really great to spend Christmas with a family who actually celebrated it. I also got my ‘White Christmas,’ there was about 2 feet of snow up where we were - but if I’d stayed on Long Island I wouldn’t have had one!
For New Year’s I had dinner in NYC with a couple of friends then we were going to head into Times Square to see the ball drop. We got to about 40th St (Times Square is 42nd St.) and found we couldn’t get any closer. Then we saw how small the ball was! If it was a nice evening we may have stayed, but because it was raining, cold and there was snow forecast so we decided we’d be more comfortable and get a better view if we watched on TV. So that’s what we did! I had a good time, so that’s what counts.
On 01/01 Sarah and I went to the American Museum of Natural History where they have a lot of full dinosaur skeletons. It was amazing to see the skeletons and how big their footprints were; it was also amazing to see the size of the woolly mammoth - it’s HUGE!!! I’ve also recently been to the ‘Top of the Rock’ (the Rockerfeller Centre). It’s pretty much the same as going to the top of the Empire State Building but you get a better view of Central Park and a good view of the Empire State Building.
Well I gotta go, but I"m looking forward to catching up with you all in a few months.
Lots of Love and God Bless
Anna
posted by AnnaJ @ Friday, January 13, 2006
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