i found my travel diary which i wrote on april 16, 2002... 2 and half years ago when i went to NY with takako and chie. i was so surprised that i didnt remember anything!! my english was a bit weird, and even i, who wrote this, cant understand some parts.. ;p

dadada!! we missed the airplane! i was like dyin! when the airplane was leaving, i was talking with bo and yunhee by my cell phone. and we missed! we missed the airplane!! and i was so confused and saying something like "is there anything i can do? oh my gosh!" fortunately the officers at the airport were so nice and sweet. they gave us free alternative tickets to ny!! and they were the direct flight! which was much better than the original plan. (because the ticket were super cheap, so we were supposed to transfer airplanes 3 times after midnight!!) so we got the new great tickets and waited for the flight coming more than 2 hours. that was not boring because we took the pictures of the airplanes planes and planes while we were moving inside the airport. on the airplane i watched "ocean seleven". george clooney was so cool! then i couldnt fell asleep any more after really exciting movie, i was just trying to sleep but i couldnt. and the airplane got to jfk airport in ny. and we finally got to the hotel in the manhattan. takako was carrying her oil makeup clenaser, and the cover came off in her bag, so she asked the hotel stuff when we were putting the baggages at the front( we got there too early to get into the room.) asking "could you hold this(the oil cleanser) gently??" it was SO FUNNY! the stuff obviously looked really comfused or annoyed... hehehe. first we went to guggenheim museum. vindy told takako about h&m bagles so we were just looking for it. but! there were two guggenheim museums. so we just guessed that one was the museum next to central park! and it was wrong! so it took us more than 30 minutes to get there from museum. when we arrived there we were already tired and saying "lets have bagels right here." next we went to metropolitan museum on the way to guggenheim. they hada tour with japanese guide, so we took it. but we were just so sleepy.. all we understood was the person wearing the skirt is the emperor. anyway, we got all the way back to the hotel immediately adn took a nap.it worked! i completely recovered from exaustness.third we went to hard rock cafe. that was different mood compared tothe hollywood one, more tahn ever, crowded. a lot of kids. i orderedroast beef sandwitch. juicy. but too much, i shared that with takako'scream puffet. i talked to the casher at the marchandise shop there, she had yokohama -sumo- and osaka and nagoya -weird- pins. nice and cool. then we went to empire state building. on the way towards there we met this nice middle-aged guy took us the station. we were like "yeah ny people are much nicer than la people huh?!"then i called bo and yunhee from the top of the building, it was .... just awesome! and we misunderstood a small tiny construction as the twin tower.. after got back to the hotel room, i called dansen. we talked like more than hour. we talked about korean visa, the picture at bbq in my house, things in ny, his international student club, his bad experience on the bus in japan.... and he read me his japanese speech! he said it sounds like 5-6 years old child but it was incredible. i was moved. he said, its exciting to be friends each other. i didnt think he could speak japanese that much. but he could. and he said its comfortable to be in japan even though its so much different from washington state.. like people in japan dont treat him equally. and heres one more interesting thing, i heard the suiside rate of washington state is the hightest in the u.s. i was talking about it to him and he said "yeah, its interesting! because we have a lot of rain, which makes people kind of gloomy, "BUT" i like it, i like to stay home, walk out in silence. i though wow! he said he is thinking to make his body.iwas like "why? you look cool! " then he said "butyou know my friends hit my butt because my pants start from my weist."

thats it, i dont know why i stopped my diary at dansen's weird comment, i think i did something after talking to him but maybe i was too tired.. at that time it was really hard to talk in english, cus i have to speak and think in english at the same time, so probablly after talking to dansen like more than hour, i must have became exausted..!