Leaving the US

Monday was a regular working day, besides that Viktor left the camp around noon and Peter was doing maintenance job as well. Also that was my last full working day, during the night we went for a last ride with the big van to the Walmart, to do our last shopping before leaving the camp.

On Tuesday I had to work only till lunch, afterwards my boss let me go to be prepared and packed for leaving. I've also got the caravan to get to the bank to close my account and get the money out of it. During the afternoon I did some last laundries and finished my packing, at aroun 6 PM, I got to the farmhouse, said goodbye to everyone and headed to Boston with Peter, and Micheal was driving, Peter went for a Red Sox game with Paul, and I got to the airport where I checked-in and went through the security check to wait for my flight, which was dealeyed and I had to wait 30 minutes more than expected. And when I arrived to Frankfurt we couldn't get to the terminal, because there was a security harassment, so waited more than 30 minutes outside of the terminal, when buses arrived to take us there, but they were doing some extra circles around the terminal till they finally drop us off. Then it was the time when my flight was about to departure to Billund and as I got to the gate it was gone already... So I've asked one of the stewardess what should I do, then 2 more person came up with the same problem. After some searching and waiting we got our new tickets for a later flight and also a 10 euro ticket to buy food for ourselves at the airport. So instead of having a rushing hour to catch the flight I had to wait about 4 hours for my connection flight to get to Denmark, finally. This plane was in a little late as well, however I still had to wait a little for my friend to pick me up at the airport, since he was expecting me to arrive on time in the afternoon, not at the evening. I got know my temprorary flatmate, we had some discussions and we all went sleep before midnight.
Since this story ended again, at least for a couple of months, you can follow my experiences, studying in Denmark: here.

#10 Last full week in the US

This week, we had less kids already, since there was only a bonus week for the day camp and instead of around 200 kids there were only around 60.

On Monday there was a marathon for the kids, and on the next day the Santa Claus came to give them some gifts, we also got some gift. And the Secret Santa also ended during the week, and since I picked one of the village directors, I got some attention with the last gift, since I gave it to her when they had their meeting, I couldn't find any better time for it, since they are never at the same place.

Thursday was the last full day for the kids, and they all left on Friday morning, while only the day campers stayed. And at noon we went to have lunch with our boss to Pizzings, like last year. After the lunch we've just got back to get our last pay checks and T-shirts from the camp. During the afternoon we had to say good bye to some of the kitchen staff, while also most of the counseulors left. On Saturday we had a day off, so I decided to get in the bank early, so I could deposit my checks, but it'd appear till Monday, so I have to go back to close my account... With Tamás we also went to the Walmart in Hanover and on the way back we stoped by at a Thrift Store. On Sunday we had to work again, and power wash all the bathrooms and so.

#8 Last session is on going

This week, there was noting special to happend, however it was a nice week, with high temperature at the end and with a little rain in the middle. There was a soccer game planned for the conselors on Friday, but since a storm was about to come they posponed it.

During the week, at the day camp, Olle has some funs since he was doing backflip sometime for them, and one of the girls decided to help us with sweeping the floor and mopping it, we appriciate her help. =)

With Tom, during the week we went to a near cycle track, which was made for mountainbikers in the wood, it was pretty cool to try ourselves there, however we couldn't find a different way back when we wanted to get back on the road, we've just end up on the mainroad and got back to the camp.

On Saturday, I was driving the Caravan again, to take Olle to Braintree, since he planned to go in Boston for an event. And that was all the week, while we had a list to do things during the weekend, since there was a big cook-out for the campers on Sunday and also some investors came to visit and look around.

#7 2nd session ends

Nothing special happend this week, on Thursday the kids left form the 2nd session, so we had to do the power wash again and finish up on Friday with cleaning, and we got our half day off and all Saturday, since the 3rd session started on Sunday. During the week, on Tuesday, I had my offical driving with a camp car, when we went to Hingham to the Apple store and to the Kohl's where we found some discounted clothes to buy, on the way back from Hingham, we also stopped by the Wallmart in Hanover. On Friday, whne we had our half day off, I cycled back to the Apple store to consulte with a "genius" as they call their assistants who helps you solve your problems with your iPhone... At the final they didn't know why it does not work with my danish SIM card, so they just changed it to an European model (A1723), instead of having an unlocked US model (A1662). We'll see if it will still see my danish SIM after a week, since the other had problems with it after a week only...

On Saturday, the maintenance guys went to Boston, expect me, I stayed at the camp to have some rest, and also to pick them up at night when they came back, since there was noone else to do that, yeah 2nd driving with a camp car! =) It was pretty accurate, since I've just arrived to Braintree when they got off from the bus, and the whole journey wasn't much longer than an hour there and back to the camp.

#5 Apple, McDonald's

This week was almost the same like all the previous working every day, expect that we changed our days off and I got the Sunday, now. Since a while I started to go cycle everyday after we finished with our job. Sometimes I've just went for an easy ride around the town, or go get some speeding, however what I liked the most so far, was going in the forest and handle the bike on narrow dusty roads etc. it is also very helpful to build some muscles, not only on the legs. =)

On Friday we had the pay day, and finally they deposit the money to my bank account, so I got an e-mail immediately as it arrived in the morning. I checked on the Apple store if the closest one has the model that I wanted, and after work I went straight there by bike to get my new, and also my first Apple iPhone, the Special Edition (SE). It was a little bit exhausting to cycle almost 20 kilometers (around 15 miles) in a row with only a few stops, but I got there in time to even set my new phone and I got back to the camp before sunset.

On Saturday I was working with Toni all day, it wasn't that since we had nothing extra to do, beside the usual cleaning. On Sunday I had my day off with Ági and Tomi, and after lunch we decided to go to Kingston to check an instrument shop with pretty guitars and so, and also to eat at a McDonald's restaurant which is so called the "American dream", haha, no. However it came originally from here, so it's a must try for the new comers at least. =)

#4 1st month passed

It is hard to force myself and write the blog each week, since I'm not always having a Wi-Fi connections and when I have I'm not always carring my netbook with myself, so I easily forget about it...

This week was almost all the same like the previous ones, we did our job etc. However there was a littl echange with the days off, since Viktor wanted to visit his girlfriendon Sunday, so he worked on Saturday instead of Olivér and him, Zsófi and I had a day off, and after some discussion we finally decided to go to Plymounth by Uber and take some time in the city near the ocean and walk around the city center. We got to the rock at first since the ride was tilll there, then we walked around the ocean checking out the Mayflower ship's replica.

Then we walked in the city and accidently went in to a Diva's Dance Competition which was probably for the local kids as we saw the competitors. Afterwards we went in a restaurant which uses local products to make their meals, then made some more walk around and also catched an ice cream van to buy some, and later we enjoyed the music festival which was taking place in the city center while we were there, however it was mainly for the local retired people as we saw the auidence... :D

And our week passed, we just went back to work on Sunday and start the next week.

#3 Rainy day off

This week we had nothing special to do, however we made some bike rides around the neighborhood after work. We went to Marshfield's airport, which was a small one for private sport and leisure planes. On another day I went around alone and I end up in Pembroke and found a school bus parking lot and real american suburban area as well.

And then on Saturday we had a rainy day, so we cannot do anything in our day off... just stay in the camp and chill while there was a little time without rain I went to cycle around.

#2 Kids arrived

This week, we just started to work from Monday as noramally and as the kids arrived on Friday we started to work on the camp schedule from 9 to 5 instead of the 8 to 4. On Tuesday all the staff expect the maintenance team got a day off, however from Monday the day camp started already, so we had job to do...

On Thursday we had our last day without kids, so we hadd a graduation party where everyone called by name and been intreduced to all the staff members like what they'll do during the summer! It was a crazy party and also there was a banquette dinner before where we had some really good meals thanks to our kitchen staff!

On Saturday we had our day off with Viktor and Sophie so we planned to go to the ocean again, however we had to check the bikes and make them ready, so Viktor had to wait and since Sophie wanted check the bank wee went a bit earlier to catch it opened. So we activated the online banking and then we went to a mall to look around as she needed some clothes to buy and then we went to Brant Rock and spent some time at the beach which was a bit rocky as its name says... and I took some pictures as well:

On Sunday we had to work with Viktor, and we were that lucky the stockade's new bathroom was opened already, so we had to clean an extra 20 toilets and sinks and right now only 5 showers, since they don't have the rest ready yet, and hopefully they'll be ready on next Wednesday.

#1 First week passed

The first week is already gone, we've been working the whole week from 8 to 4. In the middle of the week the rest of the hungarians arrived, so now we are 10 in total, 3 girls and 7 boys. 3 of us working as a maintenance guy and one as laundry and maintenance the rest of them are in the kitchen.

On Sunday we had a day off, so in the morning we fixed some bikes and went to Duxbury beach to have some rest and get out from the camp. We came back to the camp to watch the hungarian - belgian football/soccer match, but we got disappointed since we lost by getting 4 goals scored... It was also hungarian day in the camp, but there were nothing special just at the dinner we could put in some hungarian music, and that's it.

Arrival to the USA

This Friday I had my flight from Billund to Frankfurt then to Boston where I had to take the silver line bus to the south station and then the red line metro to get to Braintree where Rob was waiting for me to pick me up and head to the camp. During the flight I was trying to relax a little and I watched 2 movies: Deadpool and the new version of Alice in Wonderland and what a surprise: I saw Wi-Fi on airplanes before, but on Lufthansa it was free to use Facebook on it, so I used the advantages of it, however the messenger didn't work on my phone but on my PC I could easily use, however the pictures didn't load but I could send! :D When I arrived to the camp it was almost 6 PM, so I've just took dinner talkl with some guys and went to sleep around 10 PM. Next morning I've already had to wake up and work form 8 AM, so I started to get know one of my new workmates, during the afternoon the 3rd maintenance guy arrived and we moved to our cabin and went sleep early again.

Sunday we had a day off, so with Viktór, the newly arrived maintenance guy we planed to go to the beach like where we went last year with the other guys, and during the afternoon I was talking with Alexa and Roda about how we could meet, since we are not that far from eachother, but still there are not too many options to get there... :\ After dinner we had a WalMart trip and that was pretty much all the first 3 days as I arrived.

Getting ready for my 2nd summer in the US!

 

I directly put this post on that time, since one year ago at that time I hade my first post from the US! Now I'm still in Denmark for a few more days and getting ready to head straight to the US form here.

I am hoping that I will have some more motivation this year to write my blog, I'm planing to do a weekly report here just as well as I did it on my Studying abroad in the EU, all the experience blog this semester. However the picture is not that accurate, since I'll fly from Billund through Frankfurt to Boston, but there are some non-stop flights from Copenhagen anyway. ;)

I got some plans for this summer already, as long as 2 of my Erasmus friends from Romania are just arrived there, a few days ago, and they are staying in the same state like me! So hopefully we will manage to schedule a meeting there and have some fun together! =)

NY: The Big Apple

That was quite a time when I've been there and now I'm creating this post... Simply I didn't feel motivated before, but now I feel like I have some time to do so. :)

Let's start it at the begining, in the middle of the day I took y bus to get to NY from Phili, of course it was a megabus just as always. It took around 3 hours to get there, as I arrived my first step was to buy a 7 days ticket for the metro and get straight to my hostel, which was a liittle bit surprising for me, I didn't expect a room with only 2 beds! But it didn't bother me, since I'll get there to sleeping proposes. :D Firstly I went outside of my hostel I went to check the Central Park,I spent so much time there and I couldn't walk around all parts while I spent there like 3-4 hours, that can show you how big it is...

Afterwards I didn't want to go anywhere else just take some rest in the hostel room, however around 9 my room mate arrived, a bulgarian guy and he was asking what did I see till now. I told him what I did, and then he was like, then we should go to the Time Square! I didn't see it during the night! So I've just get dressed and went out to walk around, we spend quiet a time there walking around and wondering how shiny is the city during the night.

On the next day he was about to leave, but he still wanted to visit the Liberty statue, so we woke up early and and go for it to catch one of the first ships to there. It was nice to walk around the island and we also wait a little just to catch a guide who walked around with us. It was really great! She told us a lot of things that we would never know if we just walk around by ourselves... Afterwards he went to catch his flight and I ent across the Central Station then go out to check the Time Square during the day, and as it was raining it was almost empty! I spent a lot time then as the rain stopped I was about to go to Brooklyn and wait from the park side to get dark and tooking a lot of pictures till it got totally dark and I crossed the bridge to got back to the hostel. While I was on the metro, there was a caribbean girl catching my look all the time, so after a few stops I went upto her and we started to talk and so, then I've just went back to my hostel to get some sleep, this time I had a new roommate, an austrialn girl who left next morning.

Next day I met with a hungarian girl to explore the city together, first we met at a church, then we walked around and we were accidently crossing a live Justin Bieber acapela concert on the way to the Central station and checked some parts of the Central Park where I wasn't before. Afterwards we went in a Christmas shop accidently, funny that you can buy any kind of stuff in such a city even Christmas stuff during the summer! :D Then we went to the China Town to buy some suvenirs and walk around to see how it looks like. Since it was raining almost all day we didn1t plan anything more. When I arrived back to the hostel after I've got ready for bed my roommate arrived who was an irish girl who was quiet a fun person and we talked a lot during the night just to get know eachother and share our experiences till now about US.

The day afterwards I met the hungarian girl again at another church near the Wall street where we made a walk afterwards, then we went to Brookly to walk around and make some photos and to cross the bridge of course during daylight. Then we went to check the Time Square to see it in a nice shiny day then our way splited up, as she went to meet a friend to have lunch with while I had my tour to the top of the Rockefeller! Afterwards I went to check the 9/11 memorial, then went to Brookly again to make a time lapse video about how Manhattan looks like when it's getting dark. And that was the day, as I got home my roommate arrived to and we had some talk again sharing our day experiences. Then we decided since the next day is our last day we should get up early and check the sunrise from Brooklyn side to see the city lighten up in natural light. However we went to sleep so late...

But I was still able to manage to get up and and wake her up to get ready and catch the sunrise! It was soooo beautiful! We even went against some rules as we were sitting on the rocks, and on the sky a helicopter was going around and stopped, and just after a few minutes a security car came along and the guy was waving on us to get off from the rocks and get back to the pedestrian zone. As we did so we also started to walk back crossing the bridge where we saw a newly wed couple taking pictures, as we crossed we had some breakfast. We went back to the hostel to take finish packing our luggage and she went straight to the airport while I've just store it there and went in the city to catch a final theathre scene what I looked out days ago! So at Time Square I bought the tickets at the TKS office for half price, it was still a lot! and watched the play named An American In Paris, it was a play during the second world war, I really liked it! :) As it finished I had to rush back to the hostel to get my luggages and go straight to the airport to catch my flight, I was hurrying, but as I arrived I still have some time... I could notice when they were talking about my flight, cause they started with italian... :D The fligh back was okay, at least I didn't miss the lunch this time! :D