Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Vacation in New York

In my last vacations I went to New York with my boyfriend and my brother  on December 2011.
While we were planning our trip, we made some reservations by internet. It was so easy. We bought air tickets, Niagara falls tour, and Citypass tour which includes The Empire State Building, The Statue of Liberty, MOMMA museam and other places of interest.
The first day  we arrived to my aunt´s house. She was explaining us how must we use the subway map, when my mom called to say hello . So I missed all explanation. But in that moment I thought  that everything will be fine, and We got out to enjoyed  New York. We visited the Rockerfeller Center and we saw the biggest Christmas tree that I had ever seen. Then we went to Times Square , it was my favorite place there. I liked so much because I saw people from all nationalities dressed according to their culture, there were people so weird. It was so different than Medellin.
One week later we took the Niagara Falls tour, we were so excited about it. But when we arrive to the meeting point we discovered that tourguide man was a Chinnesse person and his English was so poor.
But we made a deal…once He gave an instruction all of us should  say that we had  understood, and this strategie worked except for the last day.
When we were coming from Boston, the bus stopped in China Town we had to got off of its.We didn´t have this episode planned. We were walking around the same point with some backpack looking for the right subway station to came back to home.I was so scaried, I felt lost there.
They were trying to find the station, I got crazy for a while. I separated from them and I started to ask to people where was the subway station. I didn’t understand anything, the accent was so difficult.In fact I was lost. Besides I didn’t to interpret rightly the subway map because I was talking by phone when my aunt explained it.
 After 15 minutes I saw them and we iniciated the hunt together.
Finally we entered to any station and there we found a person from Dominican Republic who kindly helped us to take the right subway…He was like an angel…

By Carolina Restrepo


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