16.06.09

16.06.2009
Ground Zero

Again it is late at the moment, but I write the note anyway. School was ok today. Some students left over the weekend, so we had some new students. Some from South Korea and two from Italy. We started our new subject, which is "Connectors", so this week will be about coordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions and transitions. The non-gramatical subject is "Lost in Translation" and differences between cultures. 
After school, my friends went to the United Nations. Since I have already been there, I tool the opportunity and went home to wash my clothes. We met in the evening with Harald and David and went to the Lincoln Center, which are theaters for ballet, operas and the New York Philharmonic. We could not see very much because we could not look inside the theaters itself. Unfortunately they didn't have last minute tickets (which you can usually get for 14$ when you are students), but maybe we try again another day. Then Harald went home to relax and David and I went to the Ground Zero. Everything we saw was a big (but not as big as we expected) building lot. We have been in the World Finance Center, which was quite impressive. Next to the Ground Zero there is the "21st Century", a big departement store which has many designer clothes and other things, but they sold it to very cheap prices (40 - 60% less). You can get a Polo Shirt for 80$, which had been 250$ before, but we also found normal prices. After eating something we went to the cinema at Times Square, met up with Harald again and saw the movie "The Taking of Pelhalm 123", which was a very good film. It was an action movie with many great action scenes. The special thing about the movie was, that it took place in New York City, most of the time in the subway, so we have been to most of the places we saw. 
I have been too careful with the temperature of the dryer, so my clothes were a little wet when I was home, but it should be dry in some minutes. I will just do my homework now.