In New York

The second part of the exchange club had begun – the New York experience. We were determined to show the Chinese students a good time! Every day was packed with activities that would be enjoyable to foreigners; however, one particular day stands out.   

It was the day before the Chinese students were going back to China, the night before Manny, my Chinese sister, was really into American films so I offered to take her out to the movies. We found ourselves in 34^th and bought two movie tickets to see Something Borrowed. The movie didn’t start for another two hours so we decided to go shopping first. She wanted to buy makeup for her mother so I took her to Sephora where an employee proceeded to help her. She then said she wanted to buy some shoes for herself and a tie for her father so we went to Macys. After the shopping we went to go see the movie, and while she didn’t understand some of the jokes she seemed to be amused by the leading man.

After the Movies we headed over to Michael’s barbeque. Almost everyone was there, the six American students, the five Chinese students, some of the parents, Minna, Ms.McMurdo, and Ms.Larson (Ms.Lo was there in spirit). A lot of amazing food was served, and the music was playing. We all gathered in the living room and danced merengue, bachata, salsa, and disco together. We then broke out into different activities, some of us played cards, and some played monkey in the middle, we were all having a blast – but then the idea that the experience was coming to an end rushed in.  The Chinese and American students decided to go into Michael’s room and talk, for the last time. We told each other our favorite parts of the experience and how close we felt to one another, we joked around, made a few love matches, and realized how lucky we were to be in the position that we were all in.

Keyla