Rochester!

yayayayaya!!

I'm in Rochester now and it's great! The Atzrotts are so nice and welcoming, and they *totally* spoiled me by giving me lots of gifts. I feel a bit bad though because I only really had what I could carry and had bought over with me from Aus.

Saw the RIT campus (very nice-kind of like UTS Kuringai but nicer), and this supermarket called Wegmans. Far out if there were Wegmans in Sydney I would be blowing all my money on food let me tell you! First Whole Foods, now Wegmans...Coles and Woolies will seem very inferior to me when I go back!

Speaking of going home...change of plans I have actually booked a plane ticket to Dublin on the 20th of Jan, with a tentative return date of the 4th of Feb. Will sort out funds and visas next week and then be on my way. With a bit of luck I will pick up a job when I'm over there and then I can stay for a bit longer. We'll see though. Either way, I'm going to Ireland!

Whilst on the subject of international travel, whilst not as far away (although from NYC it is further than Dublin!) we are going across the border to Niagara Falls (Ontario) tomorrow. That's so sweet/thoughtful of the Atzrotts because I had to cancel my original trip there earlier this week because of timing and funds clashes. So that'll be fun :D Maybe I'll get the VISA waiver slip to put in my passport. It's looking a bit bare at the moment. Also looking a bit beat up because I have been keeping it on me at all times so it's a little bent looking.

So-plan of attack when I get back to New York City is to go sort out a Visa for the EU/Ireland, go to Montauk on the Long Island Railroad, check out Coney Island and the aquarium, go up to the Botanic Gardens in the Bronx, and check out the Central Park Zoo. Hopefully there will be nicer/friendlier travellers at the next hostel I stay at so I can drag one of them along to go ice skating in Central Park with me. OH and also I need to go up the Empire State Building and also walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. The other day I was in Central Park and they were filming what looked to be a commercial for pads/adult diapers on the ice skating rink. Too strange-people in costumes looking like packs of poise/depends/kotex skating around on the ice.

Gotta go-we're going out for mexican. Yum!

Take care and stay cool-
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