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Name: Steve
Country: United States
State: New York
Birthday: 3/2/1984
Gender: Male
Interests: getting by day to day...cars, sports, reading, and sometimes Hyejin...if she isnt mafan..:p...of course.
Expertise: sleeping...i am the grand master, and looking pimp...haha
Occupation: Student
Message: message me
Member Since:
1/22/2003
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| Here is a little bit of an update.
My pr internship is going well. It has ben interesting to actually be part of the workforce now and see all the things that it entails. Besides work there is things such as interacting with your co-workers and office politics that go into your job and as much as I try to stay away from the politics, you always get entangled somehow.
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| confused?So I am back now in the states.
However problems have arised....
I am interviewing for this job in nyc at an ad agency and I really would like to work for them. However if I am not accepted, I want to go teach english in China.
My parents are very anti this sentiment and in fact have threatened to cut my completely off. However, I want to do it and these are my reasons why.
I believe it would be a great life experience and I would learn a lot by living in a foreign place for 10 months.
Second of all, this was not a spontaneous thing as I have spent a long time considering this.
Third of all I can save some money and come back in 10 months to start work anew.
Fourth I do not want to stay at home.
Fifth, at this point in my life, I do not know if I am ready for a standard 9 to 5 job.
Sixth, is the fact that though I really want to be in the advertising world, I do not know if I am ready for it right this instance. I mean I know I eventually want to get in it but right now I want to try a couple of things before I settle down.
Well what do you all think?
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| 1st daySo I am sitting here in an internet cafe near Leicester Square (which is oddly pronounced as Lester Square). It is also near Chinatown. Now before I get into how typically Chinese I am. I want to give my first impressions of London
First of all they have an incredible public transportation system. Everything is well lablled an organized and surprise, surprise they subways/ tube is clean and comfortable with padded seats...unlike nyc. Of course nyc has so many hobos and such on the subway so it would be impossible to have it like London but still....I can always dream
The enlgish are also very well mannered. I mean I have heard about it before but everyone seems very pleasant and polite...but not in that southern friendly way but more reserved.
Also London Heathrow is a pretty big airport and the terminals are all weirdly place. Thank god when I got off the plane and I stepped outside to have a cig, I met a person who was originally from Shanghai. He taught me the cheap way to get into downtown London.
Ok so I get off the plane in London and you think the first thing I would do is to try to grab some english food..but no I wanted Chinese food..go figure. I guess I am more asian than I thought. Also London is ridiculously expensive. Basically the dollar amount would be the same for what you would spend in nyc but times two. For example the subway ride from the airport to downtown was £4 which is 8 bucks american!! Also my meal in the chinese restaurant came out to £7.50 which if it was a straight exchange with the dollar would be fine but def no worth 15 bucks US. Goddamn...I can't afford to travel here.
Anyways I am gonna walk around some more and go to the B&B place to go to sleep. I have an early flight to Rome tommorow and I can't wait to see how it looks like..esp after Italy beat the French...haha poor French
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| Leaving on SundayI cant wait.
After all this time of planning and waiting I can finally go!
Ok my itinerary... London, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Interlaken-Montreux, Barcelona, Madrid, Tours, Paris, Mont St. Michel, Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, and back to London.
...all in 29 days
Europe here I come!
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