Fang Island

Primarily instrumental, finger tapping guitar lines and chanted vocals... they describe themselves as the cool version of classic rock— the type of anthemic pop — without the cheesiness — that you wished Journey and Boston could’ve made.

Anthropologie is a total dream.

Absolutely adore all of the visual merchandising in Anthropologie, so creative and nothing like anything we do here.

Day 1

Arrived at airport very tired, checked in and then went and wandered around for a bit. Abbie, Charley and I formulated the ingenious plan to wait outside the departures lounge whilst everyone got on the plane, then once everyone was on we would be able to get a free upgrade to first class...to no avail, we were bitterly rejected twice.

After a hefty 8 hour journey we arrived in New York, where we were told by a man at a security desk that the men of New York would be lucky to have us. Good start.

Eventually we got on to our bus and made our way to the hotel (whilst on the bus everyone started taking manic pictures of yellow school buses and taxis). Abbie, Charley, Jess, Roxy, Amber, Georgie, Rhianna and I went to go and get some Knicks tickets as soon as we'd dropped of our luggage for the following evening, then we walked over to Planet Hollywood and enjoyed a $20 burger which wasn't so great.

On the way back, we walked past a homeless guy holding a sign reading;

"mi wuz yu pweez fid mi"

I wanted to take a picture but Jess wouldn't let me.

Day 2

Woke up at 6 am and watched fantastically shit American TV for 3 hours. We effectively took over FIT that morning when we saw both the American Beauty and Night and Day exhibitions.

We then strolled down through Soho and Chelsea toward the Staten Island Ferry

I found a cafe with my name and got extremely excited.

Went to Ground Zero Museum which was amazing, they had actual recovered pieces of the planes in there which was surreal.

On the way to the Staten Island Ferry we saw the fattest pigeon on earth, street dancers and elmo..

Whilst we were waiting for the ferry i sat sat down on the floor and was accosted by a woman asking whether i would like some "roaches in my purse". Staten Island was wicked, then went over to Rockafeller and hit Anthropologie, Forever 21 and all that jazz.

The Knicks were absolutely incredible, nothing like English sport. In every break they had some form of entertainment, and everyone in the crowd got so in to it.

We also encountered the fattest man we'd ever seen...

And so it begins

To be honest, I don't like blogging. Having an entire webpage solely dedicated to me and my interests seems slightly too self-obsessed, however as part of my course i have to write one...boo.

Anyway, down with the negativity, this is going to be great...