The weather here has been beautiful nearly every day but on Friday the heaven's opened and it poured all day.. I found out that my cheap waterproof Jacket was cheap for a reason :( To be honest the weather kind of set the mood for the day. The morning was interesting, we toured the Bloomsburg head office so I got to find out a lot abut a company that I knew relatively little about before and it seems like a really nice place to work. Karen Toulon is a very high positioned women there and she took some time to talk to us- she was pretty amazing, juggling such a high job with a family and she gave us some valuable advice about interviews and such.
The next part of the day was Wall street, we did a tour which included a lot about the history of the area. It may have been the weather but I was quite disappointed with the tour, which I had thought I would enjoy.
We ended the day with a Sabbath service at the Central Synagogue, the building inside was amazing and so much more colourful than I expected. Even though the service was mostly in Hebrew, because it was sang and not spoken you could almost keep up with what was going on and the general mood of each prayer/passage. Everybody was so inviting to us outsiders and made us feel very welcome :)
I forgot to mention in Thursdays post- One of the American girls on our tour, Adrianna, had her 24th birthday so we all put in a couple of dollars to get her a card and cake and decorations which were hidden in one of the other houses. We then called a meeting with our Student adviser here who had to check a couple of things with us, during the meeting another student adviser came and told Adrianna that there was a problem with her e-mail that she needed to sort out. As soon as she left the building it was like a military operation of people putting up the banners and lighting candles, all in the space of about 3 minutes! It paid off though, she was so surprised when she came back in, to the point of near tears..it was a really nice way to show how quickly we are bonding as a group :)
Saturday was our first official free day so we did what we have all been wanting to do...Sleep in and shop :) Me, Steph and Emily had a fairly decent lay in then went into the local town of White Plains- had enormous meals at a traditional American diner, then hit both of the local malls. When we came back home our American housemate who works at Chipotle had brought us back loads of Mexican food.. we love her :)
Diner shake :)
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