New York, New Dork

OhAi world!

According to some study my lecturer keeps quoting, I have around 2 sentences in which to convince you to keep reading this post. And like a complete IDIOT, I've almost wasted them just telling you this. I guess I should probably begin by saying that I am writing this blog series on New York partly because I have to for homework (say hi to my tutor), but mostly because I REAAAALLLLYYY want to go there on exchange in the fall. 

I want is to live in New York for a semester at Barnard College. My roommate will be the 'I-hate-everything-except-heavy-metal-and-heavy-eyeliner' kind of Goth, who will ignore me until we bond over a mutual obsession with Breakfast at Tiffany's. 
Outside of lectures I'll be the coffee-making magazine intern who gets invited to Fashion Week (after the proper girl comes down with the flu). On my way to the Givenchy show I'll hail a cab to find none other than Brandon Stanton waiting inside, who will take my picture for 'Humans of New York' accompanied by an insightful quote I thought of on the spot. 
On weeknights I'll play soccer for Barnard. Afterwards the team will hang in our booth at the downtown pizza parlour on Seventy-Second and Lex, where the joints owner; Tony will make us all 'the usual'. 
Not to mention I will have three best friends (just like Carrie Bradshaw), who are the kind of cool-laid-back adults everyone loves. On the weekends we’ll storm the three B’s (Bendel's, Barney's and Bergdorf's) on 5^th Avenue,  and feed the ducks in Central Park. Is that really too much to ask?
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Pico Iyer wrote that 'abroad is a place where we stay up late, follow impulses and find ourselves as wide open as when we are in love'. I have to agree. (And not just because Pico Iyer sounds super smart and like he knows what he's talking about). There is something incredibly romantic (yet utterly terrifying) about the thought of going to college in a foreign city. Experience everything for the first time, almost like a second childhood. This will be my love letter to New York City. 

And as Gossip Girl socialite Serena always says:

One of my favourite novels ‘The Catcher in the Rye’  was written in Manhattan. No doubt some of the greatest literature OF ALL TIME was written in the Big Apple because it’s a city that inspires. I guess that living outside of my boring suburban neighborhood and in New York will allow me experience the world on my own, before I start to write about it. 

So Before departing on my trip (assuming that I get in of course. Which if you can't already tell, I DESPERATELY HOPE SO!) I'm going to document the exchange student's guide to surviving the city that never sleeps. Studying abroad and living like a real New Yorker. Starting with the Gossip Girl tour... duh!

Xx

P.S - This is the real-life facial expression I make when I drink Starbucks. I hate coffee. So I guess I can't really be THAAT much of a true New Yorker.

P.P.S - To read more head over to the new 'travel' section of out blog!