Saturday night my roommate, Emma, was performing at Sidewalk Cafe with her friend's band. So, we all went and supported her and the show was amazing. I uploaded a video on YouTube of the performance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD5wq3v3sTI). After Sidewalk Cafe, we continued to have a fun night in New York City, meeting up with friends, going to clubs, and just enjoying a beautiful night in the city.
On Sunday I really needed to get some work done, so I went to a cafe and spent the day reading and preparing for classes. My Sunday wasn't that eventful.
Monday I had 2 art history classes because I was still trying to figure out what art history class I was going to be in. I am now in Art and Architecture in the Age of Giotto. Although I didn't get my first choice class, I think it will be a good semester. The professor is a PhD student, and he seems like he knows his stuff and is very passionate about everything that he is teaching.
Tuesday I had my Sex and Gender classes. Nothing very special there. I had a lot of reading due for that class because every Tuesday we have a quiz on it. After class, I went back to my apartment to get ready for work. I left my place around 3pm and was in Brooklyn at Espana/Streb at 3:30pm. A very easy commute. I had a great day at work. We had some cute kids in class and they were all amazing on the trapeze. The first class had kids ages 5-7 and the next class there were 8-12 year olds. I helped put on belts/harnesses, guided the kids to the ladder, and I even helped on the platform, serving the trapeze bar to the kids. It is a good learning experience and I'm so excited to spend more time there. It's a great atmosphere and Jay told me he was going to start teaching me some more trapeze skills so I can possibly be a trapeze class sub if an instructor can't come in. After work, I headed home to do some more homework.
On Wednesday, I had my Art and Architecture course as well as my Drama in Performance class. It was a very hard day for me because it was the third anniversary of Boris' death. (For those of you who don't know, I lost a very close friend of mine, an ex-boyfriend, 3 years ago.) It was a tough day, but I really tried to keep my head up and not let it bring me down too much. However, in my Drama in Performance class we ended up talking about death a lot because of the play "Our Town" that we had seen the week before. Other than that, the rest of the day was pretty uneventful. I worked on a paper for my Sex and Gender class and then got some sleep.
On Thursday, I was feeling better and my only class of the day was 11-12:15. After class, I went grocery shopping at Trader Joe's and was glad to see there wasn't a line out the door. There was still a big line snaking through the store, but definitely better than the last time I shopped there. After grocery shopping, I did some cleaning in the apartment and washed all the dishes. Then I relaxed in bed for a little bit before heading out to see The Retributionists at Playwrights Horizons with my drama class. If you want to know what it was about, check out the website, http://www.playwrightshorizons.org/mainstage.asp. I was sitting in the front row of the theater while the rest of my class was either sitting in the back or on the opposite end of the front row as me. haha. Anyway, the play was HORRIBLE. Everyone in our class walked out of the theater laughing or with disgusted looks. We all couldn't believe we had just spent 2 hours sitting and watching that play. The acting was bad and everything seemed so forced. We were glad to be out of the theater, to say the least.
On my walk to the theater.
I can't believe I live here!
On Friday, I had my Architecture Field Study class. We spent an hour talking about South Street Seaport and then spent the rest of the day walking around South Street Seaport. It's so interesting being able to learn the background information in class and then see it first-hand with the professors. We split up into 3 groups after getting off the subway, and took pictures and learned more about the architecture. (One of the assistant professors is my professor for the art history class I'm taking,)
After class, I headed back to St. Mark's to drop off my books and then walked to Union Square and 18th St. and 5th Ave. to go shopping for a dress. I know, I know, Mom, I don't need anymore clothes...BUT my roommates and I were going out for a Rosh Hashana dinner that night and I wanted to look good. However, after all of the walking I did and going into stores, I didn't find anything! So, I went back to my apartment and tried on some of my roommates dresses. I ended up wearing Liz's dress and all three of us got ready to go out. We were invited by our friend, Emily, to a Rosh Hashana dinner at Sammy's Roumanian Steakhouse. We got all dressed up and met up with everyone on our way there. There were 11 people at dinner and our friend Emily seemed to know everyone there. When we arrived, there was already food sitting on our table...challah, pickled peppers, gefilte fish, egg salad, pickles, and so much more. Then they continued to bring out more food, including stuffed cabbage, chicken liver that they prepared at the table, and some sausage. We all thought that that was the main course, so we were stuffing our faces full of food. However, when the waiter came back he asked what we wanted for our meal. eek! Everyone at our table ordered their House Special Steak and two people ordered Brisket. I had 3 bites of my steak and couldn't even eat a bite more, I was so full. Aside from the food, we spent the night dancing the Hora around the restaurant with everyone else dining there, the walls were covered in photographs, there was a guy playing the keyboard and singing many Jewish and New York songs, AND Clive Davis was sitting at the table next to us. We had many talented musicians with us so everyone was excited to see him. After dinner and dancing, we got the check and it said $1145.00!!!!!!!!! We had NO idea that dinner was going to be so much and our host told us it wasn't going to be more than 50 dollars per person. If it was $1145, everyone would be paying close to $120 each! However, after freaking out, our host went to the waiter and must have said something right because he came back with a check of only $500. We payed 60 dollars each, but it was worth it (and better than $120).
When we left Sammy's we walked back to our friend Pete's house to drop off leftovers and then jumped in a cab to go to Brooklyn. We hung out at Brian's house in Brooklyn for a while with a bunch of other people and ended the night singing along to Disney songs, including my favorite: Part of Your World from the Little Mermaid. By the time we got back to St. Mark's it was around 4:30am. Liz, Emma and I jumped into our beds and passed out. We were all exhausted and excited to take off our heels and go to sleep.
All of the food we had last night.
This is just a little idea of how crowded and full of dancing the place was last night.
Greg, Pete, Liz, Sima, Noah, and Emma.
Me dancing in the middle of the restaurant.
Greg meeting Clive Davis.
Now, I'm sitting in my room trying to decide what to do with myself. I'm thinking of doing some work so I'm not swamped with all of it tomorrow. Hope everyone had a great week and a Happy Rosh Hashana (if you celebrate it).
Shanah Tovah...Miss you and love you!
Love Always,
Jess
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