In the fall, a few weeks from now really, I am going to be living in New York and serving a community for a year in AmeriCorps. I have never been to New York and I only know a handfull of people who live there, only one intimately-and he is upstate. Here are a few things I hope do and don't happen while I am in New York...
Do:
Find a reasonable apartment/furnishing/roomies
Enjoy my job
Explore the city
Discover a new hobby
Visit places I have seen only in movies and tv shows (like the diner from Seinfield)
Don't:
Get bitten by a rat
Get pushed off the busy sidewalks into traffic
Get mugged/robbed/raped(against my will)/murdered/etc
Get so lost that I have to call the cops to help me find my way home
Lose my money/bus fair/subway tokens/etc and have to walk 20 blocks in heels or something
Lose myself in the people and attitude of New York and come out on the other side of this service year jaded, hardened, and further away from the woman I hope to be
Pick up smoking
Become a loose woman with loose morals
