I'll always love you though New York.

I havent been too busy lately, but I've still managed to severely neglect my blog.
The, without doubt, most eventful thing I've done is going to New York, twice.

The first time I went with Nick and Chris, we took the train in there. Chris "scored some digits" from a fifty five year old woman (he got her phone number), and I spoke to someone else's grandmother for an hour.

When we arrived in NY, the plan was to go to the Musem Of Modern Arts (MOMA), but when we got there we discovered that it was closed. So we looked in their designer store instead and it was pretty cool. Afterwards we took the subway down to Union Square, and walked through several districts down towards wall street, looking through tons of stores as we went. They contained everything from really, really metrosexual clothes to vintage 400 $ sweaters. Then we crossed the Brooklyn Brigde.















Manhattan skyline!














Chris and I eating in Grand Central Station



















Nick and I on the Brooklyn Bridge

We also walked through Chinatown where a chinaman kept passing us mumbling: "fake id, fake id, DRIVERS LICENCE!". It was a great day!

The second time I went Trym from Norway (currently Vermont) came down to Rocky Hill for a visit, and since Rocky Hill is a boring place when you dont have a car, i decided to take him to NY since I now was an expert on the city (ha ha ha...).

We took the bus really early from close to where I live, and I slept there for three hours. We came out of the bus on Times Square and since we were both semi-starving, we ate a burger. Then we looked through all the very expensive brand-stores, and made the mistake to enter the Virgin Megastore. I think I could have spent my entire day there, and wasted all the little money I have left on their CD's and LP's. Fortunately I managed to control myself and ended up buying only "The Decline of British Sea Power", by British Sea Power.

From there we followed Broadway all the way down to the end of Manhattan (we must have been really close to Ground Zero at some point, but we didnt feel like looking for it). We went through a couple more interesting stores. One of them was REALLY cheap and they sold like leftovers from other stores and all the people in there were big, black, sweaty women looking for clothes for their children and sweating heavily. I bought myself socks and sweatpants for fat people.

We went into many, many stores, especially in the soho/noho district. I must admit that NY is a better place for shopping than the local malls are.

On our way back to the bus we went to times square at night (the lights are pretty cool):

































Me @ Times Square




















Trym @ Times Square

On the second trip i bought the I <3 NY t-shirt, and they're really cheap. Only 3 dollars each. So anyone back home who wants one, put up an order in the comments haha. I'm probably going back (with YFU) the first weekend in December.

This last week i havent been doing too much. Just hung about, done some hw and postponed starting my next running season. Yesterday I went to New Haven with Angela, Chris, Lauren and Nick. We went to Urban and they had a good sale so i bought clothes for 50 $ that were 350 $ before. Yay!

Some other important things:
The Norwegian Crown has lost 1/3 of its value compared to the dollar, which STINKS. I thought the financial crisis wouldnt affect me. Now everything is exactly as expensive as in Norway.
I bought myself tickets to Ryan Adams & The Cardinals one week before my birthday. Second row in what looks like an amazing venue! OHYEAH :D

Elections! And Halloween, Spirit Week, Homecoming, Hiking and more!

Today is election day! And I'm so excited :)
Everyone is really wound up (and most people I speak to are very pro-Obama, except my family).
The results are just ticking in, and I'm way too interested in all the statistics! (At this very moment Obama is WAY ahead when it comes to votes, but McCain happens to be in the lead in more states).

Anyway, the past few weeks the crosscountry season ended with an okay last race in which I didn't really do very well, nor really bad. It was just a bit meh.
I've been home early from school and had the time to finish my homework before dinner so I could do useful things in the evening like watching tv or drive around with mom looking for clothes I could buy and then bring back to the store (clever, huh?).

The driving around wasn't really THAT pointless, to be honest! I did buy clothes for homecoming dance, and for halloween. But I'll have to bring the first shirt I bought back because it was way too small.

Anyway, "many" weeks ago I went hiking with my friends Nick, Lauren and Angela. It was a great trip, and we got to see some great fall foliage. Also, it was the most elevated peak in the state.. Here's a picture (Me, Lauren, Angela and Nick) :













The week after this (aka 2 weeks ago), we had spirit week in school. This was basically a week where we were supposed to dress up in different outfits every day. Monday was the best: pajama day! On Tuesday we had retro day (which I didnt do), Wednesday was class color day (which I only did a little) and then on Thursday we had school color day (and I painted my face white and dyed my hair blue). Thursday was a short day in school too because we had a ''Pep-Rally'' afterwards. The basics of a peprally are: All the classes go on different bleachers, and then they try to make as much noise as possible. They also had a tug of war and a dodgeball game :) It was a lot of fun! I borrowed a broken pan from a friend, and it was really a contribution to many peoples ringing ears.

On Friday we had a day off school, on which I should've done my homework and gone to a team dinner. Instead I slep, went out with Nick and watched a volleyball game. Afterwards I saw parts of the Football game at our school and WASTED 8 dollars on what was the worst excuse for a dance I've ever seen (aka Homecoming). Most people didn't even go, and those that went left after ten minutes..

On Saturday was the State meet for crosscountry, and I finished like 96th for the small schools. Which is not all that impressive at all, but I'm glad it's over. Afterward I went to another homecoming dance in Windham. It was a lot better!
The picture is not too good of me (I think I might have been talking?), but it's the only one I have where I'm not dancing, and the dancing isn't really that family friendly :). From left to right: Katie, me and my date Anni (wonder where she went after the first 30 minutes?)



















Last week wasnt all that exciting before Friday, but then Halloween hit with its full force like it only does in America! I dressed up as the joker and carved a disgusting pumpkin! Most people (and some teachers) wore costumes for school, which was great. In the evening I went to a haunted house with Nick, Molly, Chris and Sarah. It was in a church and really cool; they decorated the entire thing inside and had zombies walking around, and then we were supposed to run around and avoid them, just like a game of tag. I also went trick or treating for like ten minutes.
(Me with Mom's and my pumpkin, and me with my joker as the nurse costume)


























On Saturday I went apple picking with Nick, ate at his house and saw two movies. Before the last one Angela, Liz, Molly and Taylor came over and we went for a walk too.
On Sunday I went to the church for the first time in a while, I found mom's bluetooth in the car (saved her 100 bucks right there!) and the day was basically not too eventful :)

Yesterday was not too exciting either, but I was supposed to go the club with some people before our ride ditched us!
Today I finally saw Hartford, and realized it's not a very interesting city. I also went to Nick's moms Deli, a rosegarden and we went speed shopping in the mall.

And now I have a lot of homework to do!
Obama is doing okay too; his percentage of total voters is going down, but he has won some more states now. Going to be exciting!

(Ps. Gratulerer Tveita og Pillan!)