Well it has been 3 weeks since i first arrived in new york and so much has happened, i will do my best to get it all down in this post but due to my inevitable lazyness it may not happen!
Anyway I spent my first week in NewYork staying in a hostel in Manhattan very near to times square, the first day or two were pretty exciting, seeing all the tall buildings and lights is a memory i wont forget. However it didnt take long before reality kicked in and that i had to fulfill my obligations to this J1 which includes finding a job and permanent accomodation. Myself and two others decided to look for accomodation before we got jobs so we would have an idea where to look for jobs which would be near our accomodation. Originally we wanted to live in Long Beach which is in Long Island. We went to view an apartment out there but the apartment turned out to be a shithole with holes in the walls and no furniture and we soon found out that the landlord was not interested in a short term lease. We then went to view an apartment in Maspeth which is in Queens, this places is a very Irish area, with loads of Irish pubs and shops so we thought it would be a very cool place to live. The apartment was great and was exactly what we wanted but unfortunately we ended up not getting it because we had no jobs at that time and the landlord thought it would be too much of a risk for her to give us the apartment.
After the first week, we moved out to a hostel in Bushwick (East Williamsburg) which is in Brooklyn (I'm still here now). On that day myself and one of the guys went out to New Rochelle in Westchester to view an apartment which had a really cool landlord who we got on with very well, however we never heard back from him after that so obviously the fact that we had no jobs at that time meant that he didnt want us to have the apartment. This was becoming a real problem and one of the guys in our group soon decided that he was sick of the whole job/house hunting thing and soon booked his flight home two weeks from then. This put me and my other friend in an even more difficult position because we now had 1 less for an apartment and we would more than likely have to more more rent. We soon decided that it would be better to find a job before we get accomodation. So myself and my friend literally went into every store in Soho applying for jobs but to no avail, we may have been a bit naive as many of these stores take in applications even if they are not hiring, plus the fact that there are probably hundreds of people every day handing in resume's into these stores. We didnt hear anything back from these stores and it was at this stage that things began to look pretty hopeless. I began to give up hope but my friend said we should have one last throw of the dice so we decided to try an employment agency in manhattan to see if they could hook us up with some work. They said they would be able to get us work and i started my new job yesterday. The jobs is only for two weeks but it will definetley mean i will be able to stay in new york longer and have a good time.
I should say that during the time i have been in NewYork i began to get obsessed (again) about my ex. Im sure that anyone who reads must be thinking that i should be getting over this by now. I even sent her an email asking how she is. It made me feel even worse because in the hostel im staying in at the moment there are loads of really cool and hot women that i wasnt even close to getting in with. However, last saturday this girl arrived, i introduced myself as i do to most newcomers in this hostel and we hit it off, she was a really good looking, fun girl and i soon decided that i should definetly pursue this girl. Eventually one thing led to another and we had sex, which was the first time i have been with another girl since my ex girlfriend. Its been about 3 days since that happened and i must admit that i feel so much better about myself. I know that may sound a bit stupid but it just gave me back the confidence that i have been lacking in the past 12 months or so.
So right now, its a tuesday night and i have work in the morning. Im really loving this hostel which im staying in because i have met so many cool and fascinting people and this is something that i have always wanted. I do miss home and sometimes i still feel like going home because i do get sick of New York sometimes, however on an overall scale i know i would rather be here than back home sitting on my ass doing nothing and feeling sorry for myself.
Another thing to say is that my exam results are out next week, im pretty sure i havent wrote anything about them in this blog but i think that i failed one of them which means i would have to come home early to repeat the exam or exams in august which would suck so much. Anyway, all will be revealed soon.
There is probably alot more that i have forgotten to write about but ill do my best to update this thing soon again.
Sean.
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