Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Ground zero


                  Ground Zero

Hello fellow readers!

It’s now the second day here in New York for me, today I was going to visit the place where the twin towers used to be. I have to take a cab there because I don’t want walk over 10 miles for it. The ride would take about 10-20 minutes with depends on the traffic.
I jumped in a cab and was now on the roll. I thought it we would be there now, but there is SO MUCH traffic, I did not expect that, although it is New York. On the way there we pass the Time Square, my plans is to go there in a day or two.
35 minutes later I’m finally there, I almost had to pay 45 dollars for the drive, talk about a rip off. I walked up to the place, it wasn’t what I expected, I thought it was going to be like a construction site. It was two big fountains on the places the towers used to stand at. I think I need to tell you readers about what did happened here. Most of you know that this place is where the biggest terrorist attack to place in USA. The attack took place September 11th 2001, some may refer to it as ‘’9/11’’. In these particular buildings there was two airplanes that crashed in to them, also it was two other planes that crashed later that day. On the memorial stone, it sees that it was over 3000 people lost their lives that day. I have to say, it feels a bit strange to stand here, it makes me feel kind of sad, so much pain, so much sadness. They at least did a really beautiful memorial place, it’s winter now so I can’t really say right now that it is beautiful, but I see a lot of trees and a lot of grass fields. I imagine in the summer it must be gorgeous here. I walked around the memorial just so I can got get a clear view of the whole place.
After about an hour and a half I decided to just take my pictures, buy a souvenir to give my little sister and go somewhere else. I want to go down to the water, which is only five blocks away. I’ll update again maybe tomorrow if I have something interesting to write about. I might visit time square, I might have to get up a bit earlier so it will not be as many people as it is in the middle of the day. Cya!                                                     

Tuesday, February 18, 2014


                    Empire state building

Hello fellow readers!

I recently woke up, I dreamed that I had a falcon as a house pet, it seems a bit strange to just dream about that, oh well it was just a dream.

I got up out of my bed and walked out to the balcony, my room has a very nice view of the city, I live on the 19th floor, so I can see most of the city from my sight. I washed up and got down to eat breakfast. After that I got up to my room to get more money so I could take a cab to the empire state building. Roughly 15 minutes later I arrived at the building, it was a huge line of people there. I almost waited 45 minutes to just get inside, I paid the lady at the desk for a tour guide so I could get a lot of information about the history of the empire state.

When my tour guide arrived I was waiting with more then twenty people, most of them where seniors or family’s with kids. The tour guide opened with a bit cheesy joke just to crack people up a bit. Then she started to talk about the beginning of the building. It was constructed by Gregory Johnson and the architecture that he was working at in 1929, it was later completed in 1931. It has 102 stories, 73 elevator  and is almost 450 meters high. It was the largest building in New York for almost 40 years until the world trade centers where build.

Empire state building is also famous because many big movies has been filmed there, a movie everyone knows that played out there was King Kong.

After the tour was over I took one of the elevators up to the 86th  floor so I could walked out on the observation deck, there I had a clear view over  the city.

 
Right now i'm starving, so i'll stop blogging for now. I will update more later, but now I got to find a desent resturant. Cya
 


                                                             Day 1         

Hello Fellow readers!

Now the day has come, in two hours the plane will leave from Arlanda and travel to New York. I’m currently sitting in the cab, I feel very tierd, hungry, and a little nauseous because I have not eaten any breakfast yet.

About 20 minutes later I arrived at the airport, I checked in and had about an hour before the plane would take off. I was still hungry so I went to the nearest cafĂ© to have breakfast. I order a tuna sandwich and coffee, while I was sitting there I looked at the brochure on the hotel that I’m going to stay at. The hotel is called The New York Skyline Hotel. It’s in the middle of Manhattan right next to the river, and the hotel is in the middle of the city, so I can take the bus, cab, subway and so on to the places I want to visit during my stay.

I’m walking now to my gate to hop on the plane now, I got a window seat in the middle of the plane. No one was sitting next to me during the flight, I thought that it was quite nice, no awkward small talk, you don’t have to squeeze by the other passengers. It was not a lot of passengers on the plane, you don’t really expect that on a plane to New York.

Now the plane has landed, I walked out of the airport and took cab to my hotel. During the drive over I got a little bit of information about tourist activities that I could do during my stay. Most of the things the cab driver talked about I already knew about. When we came to my hotel I checked in, took the elevator up to my room and immediately threw myself at the bed.

Well, I will update later here in a while, I have to get some sleep. Cya

Sunday, February 16, 2014

First post


                My trip to New York

 
Hello, my name is Arvid. I’m going to write a blog about my trip to USA. I’ve never wrote any sort of blog before, but I think this is going to be fun. I have never been to USA before, but I have very high expectations. I have friends and relatives that has been to USA, they has said tom e that it has been very pleased
 
Before I start the trip I am going to tell all you readers a little about myself. I was born in Stockholm/Sweden in 1996. I live at home with my mother, father and big brother. I am currently studying economics in high school, I hope to work with something like that in the future. Otherwise I like to hang out with friend, watch movies, play games and socialize. Just a normal teenager like anyone else.
 
The reason why I am going to USA is that I want to explore New York (NY), there is so much to see in New York. I do not want to sit by the pool and just walked around the town shopping, I want to see Time square, The empire state building, ground zero and so on. These three thing are my top priority on this trip. I hope now to explore more and to learn new things about the country.
 
The reason why I have such high expectations of  New York is that I have always heard and seen good things about the city. I’ve heard that it’s the city that never sleeps, I would like to see that for myself to know that if it’s true or not.