New York

Although I've been living in the states for more then a year I had yet to visit the Big Apple. The idea always scared me: the chaos of cars, the sea of people, the towering buildings... the idea was far from real. To me it was like a world in a world that I was glad of watching from afar.

The other day, however, my cousins kidnapped me and my sister on a roadtrip to NYC. They took us to times square where we saw a man propose to his girlfriend with Elmo from Sesame Street as a witness, went to the rockefeller where we acted like fools and watched the iceskaters, circled around ground zero and admired the future building that will be risen in its place alongside the memorial ground. We had dinner on Mars 2112 and gazed at the statue of liberty from afar. As I was walking around surrounded by the cold night breeze, police sirens, taxi's honks, bycicle bells, fast food greases, hotdog steams, people shouting...I felt like a legal Alien. XD