19.06.09

19.06.2009

Greenwich Village

School was good today, but nothing special. After school I went with Harald, David and Corina to Greenwich Village. This area is right in Manhattan, but it doesn't look like Manhattan. The streets don't have the typical right angles and are not numbered, but have real names. Many artists and celebreties live there, there are many trees, nice houses and little restaurants and shops. From here, we (but without Harald, he will leave tomorrow and wanted to go to the Guggenheim Museum) went to SoHo, another nice and interesting area in Manhattan, Little Italy and China Town. In contrast of my visit in the first week, it was good weather and for that reason very nice and very interesting. There were much more interesting people, shops and street stands. We have been in the Buddhist Temple and in a small Chinese Shop, where you can buy thousands of things that you have never seen before. They had almost every fruit you can imagine (dry), strange mushrooms, dry shark fins, and dry fish stomach, hundrets of different kinds of green tea and much more.
After that we wanted to go to the court, where the night court is open to visitors. We waited almost one hour in the courtroom, until the judge finished his dinner and many cases of violence, drug dealing and more (that we could not understand) were discussed. It was not very interesting, because they were very fast, no case was more than five minutes. But nevertheless, it was good that we have been there.
After that David went to an important Basketball Match in Madison Square Garden and Corina and I went home. Since I will leave tomorrow to Washington, I have to pack everything I need and go to bed at an acceptable time, because the bus will go at 8 a.m. tomorrow. I won't take my Macbook to Washington, so the next note will be on Monday night. I think the trip will be interesting.