Back in France! I just wrote a list of things I couldn't take pictures of. So I found it interesting/funny/strange to:
* be in a place for the first time and recognize it
* use a 28th floor bathroom
* have a cup of soup at Alice's Tea Cup
* buy first hand Levi's jeans
* take a NY taxi
* take a non NY taxi
* dance on a roof top at Le Bain
* have brunch at 2 pm
* eat "organic", drink organic bear
* watch movies on Netflix
* understand the express/local subway system
* understand the East/West streets system
* go to church in english at Saint Paul the Apostel
* go to church in french at Saint Vincent de Paul
* hear the police all the time
* find the police sounds like kids games
* been asked how I am in each shop
* answer "Fine, and you?" and hear "oh thank you to ask!"
* hear (read from an iPad) Rosh Hashana prayers
* go to an "off Broadway" show
* and understand most of it
* go to an american cinema to see an american movie with 300 other people
* eat burgers to compare them
* visit a three floors apartment
* wash cloths in the basement
* be to warm in the station, to cold in the subway
* hear people speaking french all the time in the city
* and even more in the museums
* see a Caravaggios painting in the Met, and paintings by Maurice Denis, Degas, Frans Hals, Memling, Raphaelo, Van Gogh, Monet....
* get in museums with my german student card
* find half of the Whitney + of the MAD + Guggenheim + ... closed
* hear a concert at the Rock Wood Music Hall
* wake up and know it's already the afternoon in France
* go to bed and think they maybe wake up in France
* give my last paper for the art school per internet (thanks, Annegret!)
* get orange nails in a nail spa
* see NYC under the sun, under the rain, by night, in the morning...
* take pictures everyday
* post on this blog
* receive feedback