A Little Vacation Before Class Starts...

After the orientation, there are about four days of free time before school begins. I am fortunate to room with my fellow Cake Design classmate, Nami, and we have been adventuring New York City together since day one. I must say that we have been doing quite well; the fact that in the past three days, we visited Chinatown three times, tried quite a few good hole in the wall restaurants, found a tailor for uniform alteration, learned to take and switch subways... I am also lucky to have another roommate who arrived a day earlier and was able to take the train with her for the first time, getting some great tips from her about how to get around town. Some really good tools that I used were the map provided by school, my Android phone with Google map and Yelp application. One important thing was also to make sure that we had an idea of what we were going to do for the day, Google local businesses, addresses, research good restaurants reviews, etc. A big thanks to my roommate Karen for telling me about the Unlimited pass for subway train rides; if it wasn't for it being unlimited, I would be spending hundreds from getting off the wrong stop.

Now the weekend comes, tomorrow we will be visiting a farmer's market across the street from our apartment. Then museums for the rest of the day. Perhaps a nice brunch on Sunday at our school restaurant L'Ecole. Until next blog...!