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I wasn't planning on writing this every day but theres not much else to do in the evenings - not wanting to venture out in N.Y on my own at night just yet...
Last night I sat in the lounge after coming online and shared a paper with Casey, an American girl looking for an apartment in N.Y. I also got a room mate in the form of a large black woman, who was really quite nice and friendly and kept offering me food. Anyway she woke up at about 5/6am this morning and turned the light on and seemingly unpacked all her things from her three large suitcases from very noisy crinkly crunchy plastic bags. Then put everything back in her bags again. I swear I have never been so annoyed with someone in my life. She eventually headed out at about 8am. After being awake for so long I got up and had a shower and it was warm, which I wasn't expecting...
Headed to MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) today, felt like I was walking forever but it was totally worth it. At first I coudln't find it because its tucked down a little street full of shops, but I spotted this huge grey building with no windows and figured. Inside it was amazing, you walk in and up a few steps and you're in this huge, white, open gallery with two big paintings on each wall. The ceiling goes up like 4 more floors with walkways crossing over on the right. I'm not usually a fan of minimalism but it was such a cool space. Anyway I had a little wander through all the crap abstract stuff and some other cool pieces. The architectural section was a bit of a let down, a bit technical and bland. Anyway blah blah (everything was crap in comparison to what came next) got to the top floor and spotted a Van Gogh. Couldn't remember what gallery he was in so was a bit surprised to see him. Anyway, went through into another room and it was full of blue, rose and cubist Picasso pieces, it was so amazing. Actually seeing these things for real was just so cool. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was there too, was just wierd seeing it infront of me. Anyway, into the next room and it had The Starry Night by Van Gogh which was really one of the reasons I wanted to come to N.Y. It was so beautiful, so chuffed to see it. For some reason over here you're allowed to take pictures in art galleries, so I've got quite a few snaps of the paintings.
After MoMA I went to get a subway sarnie (thought of you Buc, at new year, haha, I didn't have sweet chilli chicken tho cos they didn't have it which sucks!) and wandered back up through Central Park. I'm getting well tired of walking now, I think it must be about 8 miles a day to get down and back to Midtown N.Y. Figured I can get the W10 bus or something so might give that a shot this weekend.
Not sure what I'm gona do tomo, might just kick about the hostel and nearby. Read my book, cos its amazing. Only problem complaints so far is that it is pretty cold in the hostel, and I'm on the 7th floor, so the stairs just about kill me everytime (I'm not a fan of the lift) and I fancy a hug.

Not much else to report and I need to try and make this silly USB thing work so I can get the pics off my camera before I end up with like 500 and have to transfer and load them all at once.

ciao for now,
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