Welcome to New York!

Friday, August 29.
This morning I woke up early, Becky dropped me off at the Princeton Junction train station. My bags were so heavy! I had to use the handicapped accessible ramps so I had to walk about 2 times farther than if I could use the stairs. The train comes and I ask if it going to New York. Just to make sure. The train worker told me that if I wait for the next one, 10 minutes later it was the express one and it didn’t make any stops and arrived 12 minutes before that one. So I chose to wait. Lies! All Lies! We made 2 stops, and they were never announced. I knew we had to go under the tunnel into New York, so after the dark I got off the train. SIDE NOTE: There is a fairly large gap between the train car and the platform. So I have to use both hands and give a giant pull so my bag clears it. They never said Penn Station. I hoped off and all I saw was ‘Pennsylvania Station’. I had a brief moment of panic and then realized that Penn is short for Pennsylvania. DUH! Madison Square Garden is right on top of Penn Station. I was meeting Sarah and Alexi across the street, so I headed up there. I waited about 5 minutes and sarah appeared. She brought the church van, and thank goodness because Alexi and I both had so much luggage, I don’t think we would have fit in a taxi. We got to the church in about 20 minutes. Brian was there and Patrick came about 10 minutes later. We went to lunch at this Cuban place, and then came back to the apartment and played a get to know you game. Then we went grocery shopping to Fairway. It is right next to the Hudson River. In fact if you walk just outside the church you can see the Hudson River.
Fairway is this big grocery store. The refregirated section is this HUGE room where all the cold goods are kept. They even have big jackets you can borrow to wear around as you shop.
Before dinner we took a walk around our area and were shown some places we might need to go. We walked all around Columbia University and it started to rain a little. 3 nights a week we eat dinner at the Priest’s home with him and his wife. They have a Standard black Poodle!!!! His name is Monty, he is really shaggy and cute.
We had Bible study after dinner…it went a little longer than it was suppose, we are all exhausted. Our 5th roommate, Demie made it, and we headed upstairs to our apartment and we picked our rooms. 2 of the rooms are really small and awkwardly shaped, with a foldy portioned between the two of them. The only fair way to pick was pick numbers and then whoever picked 1 got first choice of the rooms. I picked number 5, of course and have the smallest room. Boooo! Also the internet doesn’t really work in it so I have to go into the living room to use it.
I need to go to Target and get some more storage.
I’m too tired to unpack very much!