I am so in love

I am so in love right now…With the City that is!  This place is so amazing, so magical! I was so overwhelmed at first but I am starting to get the hang of it!

            I guess I will start with yesterday.  Alex and I were supposed  to fly out at 9:20 am, but we were delayed about two hours because of bad weather at LaGuardia.  The flight was only supposed to be an hour and fifteen minutes but that turned into two hours because of air traffic.  So that was a bit stressful, and I am sorta terrified of flying, but the Lord took care of us and we landed safely around 1pm.  After we checked in I got situated in my apartment.  I am living with three other girls and it has been fun so far.  We had a meeting last night with the entire project (all together there are like 90 of us), they did some orientating and we had pizza (your average Crusade event food).  A group of us went to a place called Pink Berry's which has really good frozen yogurt with fruit.  AND we went on top of this place called the vogue (which is where some of the summer project people stay (I stay in Herald towers in Herald square) and it was so cool...you walk out and the empire state building is in your face and it is just beautiful to see the city at night.  But it was amazing to finally meet everyone and hang out!           

            TODAY was so thrilling!  My roommates and I got up around 8 somethin.  We went  to get starbucks, and I was so impressed because there was a huge line and it seriously only took us 3-5 minutes to get our coffee, simply saweeet!  We then headed to NYCAM (which is where we meet when its all 90 of us and where the arts track has their studio) and had more orientation.  They gave us brief history lesson of the city and we had a subway orientation.  So on summer project there are what you call dinner groups…this is where they mix you up with about 5 other people from different tracks.  They put me with two people from the arts track, two from inner city, one from epic, and of course Alex.  Once they put us in our dinner group we were challenged to go and explore the city and especially its subways.  We decided to head to little Italy for some Italian awesomeness.  Kinda took us forever to get there because of some subway miss understanding.  We finally got there and ate…I had spaghetti and meatballs…totally up there with the best spaghetti I have ever had.  After that we went to get some gelati, I had pistachio…it was pretty much amazing.  We met up with the rest of the project and went up to Rockefeller Center to go to the very top.  We spent about two hours up there, it was amazing, being able to see the entire city!  So so beautiful!  After that awesomeness my dinner group went for a walk.  We walked and went inside St. Johns Cathedral, it was so beautiful!  We went to the Plaza Hotel and actually went inside! It was so cool!  We checked out central park and went to the apple store…Im a MAC so I totally loved this adventure!  I had the most amazing salad at this place called “just salads” and then we subwayed back to where we live.  Seriously though, today made me fall in love with this city!  I have met some really amazing people who love the Lord…and I still haven’t even met half of everyone.  Tomorrow we will have orientation/training with our track, so that should be fun.  Apparently this whole week is training and then next week we will start at our campus sites.   I am so excited to see what the Lord is going to do! But for now im headed to bed because a whole day in the city will wear you out!