So here we are. For half of the people in this group, today is the last day of activities that don't involve goodbyes and airplanes. Right now I'm sitting in the lobby hotel surrounded by people signing our awesome BELO t-shirts and hugging each other. To be honest, I feel like I should join them soon so let's get to the actual blog.
Today started both good and bad. Good: a full day of awesomeness ahead of us with a predicted temperature of - wait for it - 3 celsius! Way hotter than the last two days. Bad: we had to get up 10 whole minutes earlier than usual. But as we all saw, not much later, and it was definitely worth it. Our first stop was Lady Liberty! And our 10 minutes of lost sleep got us there on the first ship, first group of the day.
We managed to avoid the HUGE crowd that followed and take some (loud and freezing) group pictures!
Second stop: a true New Yorker lunch. Walking around the beautiful Times Square, holding a New York Pretzel in one hand and a couple (of dozens) of shopping bags on the other! Some of our girls even got put on the big screen in Times Square!
After our usual drive on the bus with all 56 of us singing Lady Gaga, we got back to the serious buisness: a tour of the United Nations. Even though we had to be separated into smaller groups, and even though we couldn't take loud group pictures or over-crowded selfies, it was pretty cool. No, SERIOUSLY, the UN was really amazing. I can say that we definitely all felt at home and we all got to send some really awesome international postcards.
After that, we all felt some need for... more shopping obviously! So, there we go, back to Times Square with our hands full of shopping bags. This time, though, there was no need for New York Pretzels, because our lovely Belo Ladies provided us with some Italian food at Mama Sbarro's Italian restaurant. As an Italian myself, I'm going to abstain from any comment on the accurateness of the Italian Pesto and Pepperoni Pizza... but I CAN say that the place was awesome. As always, our whole group was singing all the songs that came up on the radio, and whenever the restaurant would stop the radio, we would totally not stop singing! Speaking of singing, we also sang happy birthday to Ryota/Totoro in all of our languages at once!
Finally, what was possibly the highlight of the day... a Broadway show! We had the amazing chance to see Cinderella and I can say without a doubt that we ALL loved it.
Well, apparently my time to write this blog is up, so I have to say goodbye to you all. I wish you a good good night but remember: it is probably not going to be as good as ours!
Baci e Abbracci,
Marzia, Italy
(Photos by: Jessica Hurme, Finland and Belo Staff)
p.s. A note from a student who practically became our staff photographer: Jessica Hurme of Finland. -- The trip was amazing! We get to see all the important places in New York City and I have so many new memories and stories. What's the best is I've so many new friends all around the world. Thanks to all of you! I won't ever forget this trip together!
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