new york, new york

Just got off the phone with a friend of mine back in the US and it was so great catching up with her. I hadn't talked to her in quite a while so it was nice hearing about all her adventures and whatnot (not that she'd see them as adventures, but I digress). It's so amazing what she's doing, being in New York and trying to figure out how she's going to manage, money-wise. But I'm happy for her because I think she made the right choice in the end. New York suits her, more than she realises.

I have to admit my touch of envy at just the fact that she gets to live in Manhattan. I will visit her eventually, I will! I have to!

She always manages to update me on all our friends back from Junior High as well, and it's so interesting hearing about their lives - the good, the bad and the ugly. It's funny how even though they live half way across the world, it's not so different from here -- the lives of twenty year old college students in developed, Western societies are not so dissimilar if you really think about it.

I miss them a lot, to be honest. I know Kirsty would shake her head in disbelief thinking I'm just holding on to some silly notion of the 'American life' but it's not like that at all. They were my closest friends and they still are. Okay, so I'm not the same person I used to be in Junior High, but neither are they. We've grown and changed, but we'll always be connected by the people we used to be and the people we've become... if that makes any sense at all.

Although I'm totally broke after paying off my trip to the UK/Ireland this summer, I'm seriously considering adding on a pit-stop in NY. I shouldn't say 'pit-stop' cos that makes it sound insignificant and therefore cheap (of which it is neither), but it really would be great to see her again. I could visit my cousin and his wife as well. Not to mention, I've been dying to go to New York for the past five years!! Who knows...