I'm back from NYC!!!  I had a GREAT time with my family.  Pshh... I don't know what all that talk was about intimidation, I embraced the city!    We stayed in a hotel right next to Times Square, so we were right in the middle of the action.  I had a lot of fun navigating my family around on buses and on subways.  I really liked the subway system until my sister pointed out that it was hot, humid and dirty...and then I was like... oh, yeah... it is.  Poop.  She ruined the fun, but it was still neato mosquito that we could get around all day without cars.  BUT the downside is that our feet practically died and fell off.

Ok, so highlights.  On the first day, we went to the Guggenheim.

  Isn't the building cool looking?  None of us are really artsy people, but we still enjoyed looking around.  At night, we went to see the Broadway revival of 42nd Street.

I absolutely LOVED that show!!!  It was hilarious and sooo impressive.  It totally inspired me to go and learn tap...but I prolly won't cuz I don't have time or money.  I'll just stick to jazz for now.  This is definitely a show I could NEVER audition for... it's all about tap.  Speaking of shows... we got to go tour Radio City Hall, which is the HUGEST theater I have ever seen.  We got to go on stage, back stage and underneath the stage.  It's the theater where the Rockettes dance.  Anyhoo, it was just awesome being able to stand on that stage and look out into the seats, the theater holds about 6000 people.  6000 people!!!  That's craziness!!!  Ooooh, what it'd be like to perform there... keep dreaming, Pei-Jean.

Chinatown wasn't as fun as I thought it would be.  The restaurants were too hard to find!  My mom went food crazy... or my like fruit crazy.  She bought so much fruit and we were only going to stay in NYC for like a day and a half more!  Hehe...oh!  We do have a success story.  We went to this photo store called B & H Photo where they have like EVERYTHING.  It's a technological hubub.  The store is run by Orthodox Jews, interesting, eh?  Anyhoo, we ended up buying a digital camera for $150.  Yay!  Too bad I won't be able to use it because it's a family camera so it has to stay home while i mosey on over to Austin.  Bleh.  Ok, more about Niagra when I get home.  Me at work.  I have to read about polio now...fun.

I just got lectured by my Dada.  He was all telling me how I won't be able to get by with much if I go into Public Health because my rent will cost at least $700/month, car payments will be another $500/month.  If I'm lucky enough to land a $25,000/year job, I'll prolly only get about $1400 a month... that'll leave me like $200 for food, gas and leisure stuff.  Basically, I won't be able to live by myself.  He's like, you don't think about the money now because you don't pay the bills.  He says he's just raising the flag for me.  It's ultimately my choice what I want to do, but he wants to let me know where my choice will most likely take me.  He told me that I'll probably end up living in a mediocre neighborhood with uneducated people and my kids will want to ask me to move into a better place, but then I won't be able to cuz I won't have enough money.  I was thinking... aww... more poor kids.  So now I'm really confused.  I'm thinking, do I REALLY want to major in public health now?  Is there anything else I can do?  I can't think of anything I want to off the top of my head.  There's always doctor... but I don't have that much of a passion for medicine... and there's always the MCAT that's staring me in the face... and I'm just like...ehh... no.  I was so sure of public health.  I had this dream in my head of saving the world!  I wanted to work with infectious diseases and improve people's lives.  It seemed like such a great and rewarding thing to do.  Now I'm lost.  I gotta stop thinking of just myself; I want to be able to provide for my family too.  There's gotta be something out there that I'll love doing with decent pay.  I don't want A LOTTA pay, just decent.  Alright, I'm off to research possible health professions.  Oy.