Lizzie-I miss you all

So yesterday was "dia del amigo," or friend's day, in Argentina. It made me miss you guys. I'm excited about the weekend in August in NYC! I hope lots of you guys can come.

My island hasn't been that exciting. I did see Joey Fatone. There were lots of people on the island this weekend because of the Shark Tournament (which they actually have every year, it's just kinda funny that this year sharks were spotted around the island one week beforehand). And some 50something year-old guy was hitting on me at a club, asking me to introduce him to the band because he supposedly works for Saturday Night Live and was looking for a band (why he was interested in a local band that only does covers of 80s songs, i don't know...). I'm pretty sure he was just a shark fisherman.

So, I'm pretty sure Erin and Phred don't read this, but , I really enjoyed the drunk dial last night and I'm holding you to your drunken promise that you'll come visit me in two weeks!

I still haven't heard anything more from the Peace Corps. Love and miss you all!

Andy to NYC

I will be in NYC the weekend of the 25th-27th of July renting an apartment at 2nd and 13th. Let me know if you're around.

Emily

Just got back from a very busy/fun weekend in NYC and this is my new apartment!!


http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/abo/753120268.html


Right near a great park and some cute restaurants plus the subway stops across the street- yaaaay I'll post more about my (mis)adventures later- now I must sleep!

Miss you all!

Hey all!

Not much new in the world of Leah. Work is still the same...nothing of note really, but I'm still very much enjoying so thats good.

As Tony mentioned, Tony and I went to his Dad's cottage in Canada last weekend. It was amazing as usual. Quite a long drive, but worth it. It also reminds me that I can drive places a lot closer than 7.5 hours from Syracuse in one weekend (hint hint...though I did have four days off). Over the weekend, I honed my waterskiing skills (which were practically non-existent last year) and was able to get up on the skis and stay up. If you ever need to work out every single muscle in your body, learn to waterski. I'm still sore haha The weekend also included hiking, swimming, smores and other water activities for people who are more skilled than I am. His step-family is very nice and I'm glad they'll be there (and not in the humungous wedding party) for Bill/Brie's wedding in November so I wont be stranded alone.

Tony and I are now defintely going to DC on the 25th, 26th and 27th and I think I'm gonna make it down to NYC on that weekend on August if someone will house me. Tony probably wont go bc of starting at Cornell so I may take the train rather than driving alone, but I'll keep you posted.

Hows the job going Cait? And the apartment search Em? Fill us in people!

MISS YOU ALL! I hope this august thing works out or I may start showing some withdrawl symptoms

<3Leah

Lizzie-GREAT NEWS!

1) I bought my plane ticket so I will be arriving at JFK on Friday Aug 22 at 11:59AM Delta #5119 and leaving on Monday the 25th at 8:40AM. I'm so excited to see you new yorkers plus the transnational girl

and....

2) I got medically cleared for the Peace Corps. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!! So I'll be going to a country where "asthmatic care is more readily available" so who knows what that means. but it doesn't matter! i will be doing the Peace Corps someday and somewhere to be named at a later date. the nice lady i talked to says i'm a few weeks ahead of schedule for the timeline for leaving in september. so, i may actually be able to go in september, who knows.... i'll keep you updated.

Lizzie-I have a plan...

I have a plan.

Well, not for life, still waiting for the Peace Corps… BUT, I have decided I don’t care what I have to do, I will somehow get myself to NY for the August 22^nd weekend when Claire is there. After weighing all the possibilities: boat plus bus then cheap bus which takes basically a day to get there and a day to get back, a flight from logan which also includes a bus and a boat, driving which includes $88just to get off this rock plus gas (eek) and possibility of getting lost. I’m just gonna suck it up and fly from Martha’s Vineyard to JFK which takes 2 hours. Then there will be no boat/bus delays or anything.

So, as long as I can finagle my boss into giving me time off, (which I should be able to do) and as long as I can stay at the L'hotel Fitz or with Dodd if she has an apartment by then, I’ll buy this ticket ASAP. I would be arriving on Friday around noon so I can hang out and greet Claire when she gets in at 1PM. Then I can either fly out of JFK at 8:40AM on Sunday or on Monday, hopefully I can work out something at work so I could come back Monday, it’s the same price.

Island life is not very exciting, I’ve gone out a few times with my friend from Spain and her Spanish boyfriend. There are WAY too many people here on this island this weekend, I went dancing on Thursday and had to leave because I couldn’t move because there were so many people. So last night Sean, Kylie, another friend of ours and I avoided town and had a bbq at his house with red, white, and blue jello shots. Yes, Sean made “white” ones with unflavored jello and coconut rum.

Oh yeah, I chopped off my hair. And colored it. The new color is called Sangria, how fitting… haha. Here’s a picture, you can’t really see the color, but in the sun it’s more visible.

I hope everyone is doing well.

Claire - Upcoming Plans

Well, I leave for London in 18 days and I can hardly believe it. 18 days! Thus, I'm trying to hurriedly get in all the things I need to do before I leave the country (which reminds me, I need to make an appointment at the dentist while I have insurance). I didn't realize just how long a list that was, but with appointments, and paper work, and trying to figure out what's important to take with me, what I can get sent over later, and then just the things I want to do for the summer, it's a bit overwhelming.

I had jury duty today! I must say I was a little nervous, but I got there early, filled out my questionnaire, and waited. And then we watched a little movie about the importance of being a juror and how a court room works. And then a judge came and said some 'inspirational' words about how important jurors are. And then we waited. Then the lady in charge came out and read the randomly selected 72 of all 120 of us that were called for the first round of inspection, and thankfully the computer missed me. So yay! They didn't even pick up my survey or anything, just dismissed me for the day right away. I must say I was thankful - I've had a very productive day instead, which is good. Being a juror wouldn't have actually been that bad, but I was slightly wary of having to make a big decision in someone's life. It was just a bit much for me. But in any case, I came home and organized a few bits of my life instead, so that was good.

Also, as part of my getting everything together before I go away, I have my flight details finally! Ceri, who will be my boss over in London, booked my tickets, so I now know what's going on in my life. I'll be leaving Denver on July 18th, and then flying back into New York City on Friday August 22. Then I have to be up at Skidmore on Monday August 25th for their orientation, so I'll be taking the train up on Sunday. Then it's back to London on the group flight, and theoretically back into the US December 6th.

Sooooo, who is going to be in New York that weekend?? My flight info getting in is :

Flight number: BA0175

From: Heathrow (London) Terminal 5

To: John F Kennedy (New York)

Depart: 22 Aug 2008 10:25

Arrive: 22 Aug 2008 12:55

Anyone going to be around that afternoon? Or over the weekend? Hopefully I'll get to see a couple of you guys while I'm on your side of the country!

I think that's about all that I've got going on at the moment. Well, that's already a rather long post, so either way, let's say that's all I've got going on right now.

Miss/love