May 14, 1999
Page 7
Last night I went to a party thrown by my job in Manhattan. Since it was sponsored by my job I expected it to be some stuffy suit affair. But to my surprise I had a good time. I was kind of excited about going because I haven't been to New York City since a trip in 5th grade. And the only thing I remember from the trip were all the bums and prostitues I saw. Before this in high school I was determined to go to NYU so I could become a cool hip New Yorker, but as you can tell my life took another route.
Anyway, the food was pretty good and they had all the FREE drinks you want. Since I was at this high-class function, I decided to try some white wine (my first time). I always see rich people on television ordering white wine, and always talking about how sweet or good it taste so I thought, cool I'll see how the better half lives. Yuck! I didn't like it at first, but as I took more sips and got a little tipsier I began to enjoy it. The food was good (didn't I say that already) and I felt a little more comfortable (I never feel totally comfortable at affairs like this). I even danced a little despite the horrible music but I didn't care, I wanted to have a good time.
The restaurant was named La Belle (or something close to that) and it was just a block down from Times Square and since I haven't been to NYC in such a long time I wanted to go site seeing. Oh man...I must admit I'm in love with Manhattan! All the lights, all the people, all the places to go and such little time! So I walked around, trying to look at all the ads and all the people. Oh the people! Everyone looked so hip, so cool, and looked like they all had some where to be.
The atmosphere was very intoxicating (but then again maybe that was the wine) that I just wanted to stay and drown myself in New York. But the bus was leaving and I had to work tomorrow so I left vowing to come back soon.
With that all said and done, now I want to move to Manhattan. Well if I can't afford Manhattan, Harlem will do. I just love what the city represents and all that I can do there. In Philadelphia everything closes early. There use to be an old joke "I went to Philadelphia last weekend and it was closed". Well that's pretty true. All the stores close around 9pm and then the bars and clubs close at 2am and if you still want to hang out, you have to search for some after hour's place or go to some crappy dinner with horrible food. And then if you're under 21 (like me), you can't go to bars or clubs, so you basically have nothing to do. Now don't get me wrong...I usually don't drink and clubs and bars aren't the places I want to be...but New York has so much more to offer. As you can see, Philly can get really tired real fast. And the bad part is Philly is all I know. I've never lived anywhere else or really travlled. So New York would really broaden my horizons on life and make me a more independent person. Yes I'm really looking forward to this. The only problem is finding a job and cool apartment. But I don't graduate until 2002, so I'll worry about that when the time comes. But for now I'll just dream of my New York.
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