Hi!
It's LATE Tuesday night (almost Wednesday morning here in New York) and I'm sitting here happily reflecting on a good day and good friends. :>) I've been attaching a few pictures here and there but there's so much about New York that can't be captured in pictures:
SOUND - - tons of sound all over the place; right now I can hear the sounds of the people across the hall from us being pretty noisy. Sounds like they've got some sort of accent. . . There ya go, that's something new: All those times you call tech support and assume it's been sent off to some foreign country - it may be someone here in New York! Everywhere we go there are people with thick accents and talking in foreign languages. Wow! Even the majority of our class has an accent (FYI: We're in NEw York for SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 training)! Then there's the sounds of the cars honking, the ambulances driving by, and the on-going construction work. . . just to name a few sounds.
SMELL -- Wow! Every couple of feet there is a new smell - no joke! Between B.O., sewage, hot dogs, some mysterious good smell, and restraunts that make you want to head in -- there are TONS of smells! This has been a surprise!
Then there's the rest of it:
Truthfully, we're not sure if our teacher knows what he's talking about. Is that awful? When we ask him a question (i.e. what do you think of Unified Dimmensional Models?), he says that it's some ambiguous up in the clouds kind of thought and not really important anyway. In contrast, the class textbook says that this is a major change in the 2005 software and is hugely important. Hmm. . . I'm trying not to pass judgement, but hmmm. . . It's made me continue to appreciate all that our co-workers taught us ahead of time!
Anyhow, we spent the evening walk around Upper Manhattan and even saw the beautiful brownstones. It's really amazing to see the architecture and the history of New York. . . Every building is different, every building seems to tell a story, and it changes step by step. Wow.
Ooh! And we had dinner at Alice's Tea Cup place. . . the famous Alice in Wonderland shop where they serve you tea and the atmosphere is very cool!
Finally, highlight of the evening was that Nancy's daughter, Becca, got us tickets to a hot Broadway show "Sunday in the Park with George" . . . Awesome show that was big in London and is touring in New York. The music and acting was amazing and I was touched by it (even got teary!). The music was WONDERFUL and they did this really creative scenery where they projected the art work and scenes onto the stage like magic. It was truly amazing!
I, of course, made friends with the person sitting next to me and found out that he's spent the last 17 years in London (this is his first year in New York) and he saw the play twice in London and now in New York (he's a big fan of the two leads who have traveled with the show). Anyhow, information about the play can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundays_in_the_Park_with_George and is based on Georges Seurat's painting Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grade Jette -- an impressionist painting where the artist created colors with a colored dots painted closely together to give the illusion of another color (e.g. reds and blues create violet). The story is touching as it examines the life of an artist; missing life as he was absorbed in his art and the humorous/touching portrayal of the woman who loved him. It then moves forward to his ancenstor who is also an artist and who gets a more hopeful message when he too is under the pressure of producing art. I can't put into words an adequate description that would do it justice. Suffice to say that I really enjoyed myself!
Anyhow, it's late right now (Wednesday morning now) and so I'll have to post the picts tomorrow. Thank you for the special messages from my good friends. . . it makes me feel cared for and loved. . . and a bit homesick, but in a good way ;>)
More tomorrow!
It's LATE Tuesday night (almost Wednesday morning here in New York) and I'm sitting here happily reflecting on a good day and good friends. :>) I've been attaching a few pictures here and there but there's so much about New York that can't be captured in pictures:
SOUND - - tons of sound all over the place; right now I can hear the sounds of the people across the hall from us being pretty noisy. Sounds like they've got some sort of accent. . . There ya go, that's something new: All those times you call tech support and assume it's been sent off to some foreign country - it may be someone here in New York! Everywhere we go there are people with thick accents and talking in foreign languages. Wow! Even the majority of our class has an accent (FYI: We're in NEw York for SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 training)! Then there's the sounds of the cars honking, the ambulances driving by, and the on-going construction work. . . just to name a few sounds.
SMELL -- Wow! Every couple of feet there is a new smell - no joke! Between B.O., sewage, hot dogs, some mysterious good smell, and restraunts that make you want to head in -- there are TONS of smells! This has been a surprise!
Then there's the rest of it:
Truthfully, we're not sure if our teacher knows what he's talking about. Is that awful? When we ask him a question (i.e. what do you think of Unified Dimmensional Models?), he says that it's some ambiguous up in the clouds kind of thought and not really important anyway. In contrast, the class textbook says that this is a major change in the 2005 software and is hugely important. Hmm. . . I'm trying not to pass judgement, but hmmm. . . It's made me continue to appreciate all that our co-workers taught us ahead of time!
Anyhow, we spent the evening walk around Upper Manhattan and even saw the beautiful brownstones. It's really amazing to see the architecture and the history of New York. . . Every building is different, every building seems to tell a story, and it changes step by step. Wow.
Ooh! And we had dinner at Alice's Tea Cup place. . . the famous Alice in Wonderland shop where they serve you tea and the atmosphere is very cool!
Finally, highlight of the evening was that Nancy's daughter, Becca, got us tickets to a hot Broadway show "Sunday in the Park with George" . . . Awesome show that was big in London and is touring in New York. The music and acting was amazing and I was touched by it (even got teary!). The music was WONDERFUL and they did this really creative scenery where they projected the art work and scenes onto the stage like magic. It was truly amazing!
I, of course, made friends with the person sitting next to me and found out that he's spent the last 17 years in London (this is his first year in New York) and he saw the play twice in London and now in New York (he's a big fan of the two leads who have traveled with the show). Anyhow, information about the play can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundays_in_the_Park_with_George and is based on Georges Seurat's painting Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grade Jette -- an impressionist painting where the artist created colors with a colored dots painted closely together to give the illusion of another color (e.g. reds and blues create violet). The story is touching as it examines the life of an artist; missing life as he was absorbed in his art and the humorous/touching portrayal of the woman who loved him. It then moves forward to his ancenstor who is also an artist and who gets a more hopeful message when he too is under the pressure of producing art. I can't put into words an adequate description that would do it justice. Suffice to say that I really enjoyed myself!
Anyhow, it's late right now (Wednesday morning now) and so I'll have to post the picts tomorrow. Thank you for the special messages from my good friends. . . it makes me feel cared for and loved. . . and a bit homesick, but in a good way ;>)
More tomorrow!
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