On my first day in New York I just took a walk up and down 8th Avenue completely awestruck by the size of everything :)
The following morning I woke up to meet my roomate, Fabio, from Brazil. He quickly became a very good friend of mine during the training days. The breakfast at the hotel was delicious and very American. Scrambled eggs and buttered toast. The training this day was about general information such as: Taxes, insurance and more, followed by learning about kids in the age 0 - 3 years old. We were working from 8:30 am to 11:30 am, then we had lunch, which was a cheeseburger and fries. Then working again from 12:30am until 4 pm learning about the kids. Loooooong day.
When the training was done there was planned a tour around Manhattan, but I was too tired to go, so I went to my room and took a nap followed by a walk around New York to find a place to eat dinner and a new pair of basketball shoes, I had to go to 3 shops before I found a pair in my size! I also found a Subway Sandwich for dinner.
The next morning we had the same breakfast and started training the same time as Tuesday. The first hour of training was about driving in America, so we learned the basic rules about driving and what to do if we got pulled over by the police and more. Then we learned about kids the age of 3 - 14. This took from 9:30 am until 4:30 pm, only with few breaks and of cause lunch break at 11:30 am. This evening I went on a walk with 8 or 9 other Au Pairs from the program, including my roomate. We went to see Ground Zero, Statue of Liberty, Staten Island, Brooklyn Bridge (Which I have now been driving on) and the Financial District in the southern Manhattan. This was a very nice tour because we really got to know each other and we saw a lot of magnificent views of New York City. Plus we had a really good pizza for dinner :)
At Thursday we had a 9½ hour first aid training. We learned about everything from fevers and bruises to amputations and CPR. This class was from 8:30 am until 5 pm, and then from 5 pm to 6 pm we were handed out our traveling documents which we needed to go to our host families.
This evening I went with Fabio from Brazil, Pavel from Czech Republic, Ingrid from Mexico and Anna from Poland to see Times Square and other parts of Manhattan at night, we also went to the M&M's store, I have never seen that many M&M's in my life!
At around 9:30 pm we went back to the hotel and talked for a while before going to bed.
The next morning, Friday, we did not have any classes, but we had to check out of the hotel by 12am noon. Fabio and I were up at around 6:45 am because he had to leave early to get his flight and I wanted to have breakfast with him and the people from the walk last night. So at 8:10 Fabio got picked up at the hotel by a shuttle and taken to the airport. After this I took a quick nap at my room until 10:30 am, then I packed my backs and stored them at the hotel so I did not have to carry them with me around the city. Then I walked to the NBA store which is on the corner of 5th Avenue and 47th street, only 1½ mile from the hotel. Here I bought a new basketball and a t-shirt. For the rest of the day I just walked around in New York and saw the Empire State Building, I was not on the roof tho, it was very expensive ($44). I ended up on a Burger King because they had air condition and free wi-fi.
I forgot to tell, but all the days we had around 30 degrees celcius (which is close to 90 degrees fahrenheit).
At 7:30 pm Kevin (My host dad) came to the hotel lobby and picked me up and we took a taxi to my new home. The neighborhood is really nice, and we took a walk in Brooklyn where we had dinner at a local diner. The diner looked exactly like diners do in movies, it was very fun. I had lasagna which tasted great!
Then we went back home because it started to rain a little. I got shown around the house which is very nice, they even got a backyard. I got shown my room, and then I went to bed.
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