I grew up in a suburb of Chicago...I've used public transportation before -- NOTHING compares to the foreign grounds of the New York City subway system. Within the first few days of moving to the city, I honestly thought it would take me all summer to learn how the subway functions. I guess you just have to make some mistakes -- like ending up in Brooklyn late at night after riding the Staten Island Ferry -- and then the karma comes full circle; the epiphany comes.
My thanks go out to my internship, which has sent me to a number of places via the subway. Earlier this week I interviewed the women from Jersey Couture, as I said in my last post. As excited as I was to cover the interview on my own...getting to the meat packing district (where the Oxygen office is located, above the Chelsea Market) was something I wasn't sure I could do.
The Meatpacking District gets it's name from Gansevoort Market, which was home to 250 slaughterhouses and packing planets in 1900. By the 1980s, drug dealing and prostitution was what the area became known fore; however, in the late 1990s, high-end boutiques, restaurants and night clubs opened -- effectively changing the reputation of the neighborhood.
Thankfully, I did successfully complete my trip there and back with no trouble. And another successful trip happened tonight as well, in meeting up with my friend (and co-intern at HollywoodLife.com), Nicole. Our intern supervisor, and reporter for Hollywood Life, sent us to see "Camp Wanatachi" in the Financial District -- which comprises the offices and headquarters of many of the city's major financial institutions, including the New York Stock Exchange. It is also home to the 9/11 Memorial and World Trade Center site.
The musical was produced by the star of ABC's Legend of the Seeker, Bridget Regan, and was about two 13-year-old girls who fall in love at Christian summer camp. Sound a little out there for you? I honestly thought it would be too weird for my liking; and interests...as I'm completely in love with my boyfriend. However, I was more than pleasantly surprised by the story -- and the music was really good! I laughed a lot and found that the story line and character development was very relatable to my generation. In the very least, I was happy I went -- the time I spend here this summer is something of a preview of the life I want to live after graduation; so it's these experiences I know I'll remember and know it was an "only in New York City" moment.
Just to recap on the internship -- I learned how to make a poll today via Word Press (subject: MTV Movie Awards, I'll post it on my profile when it goes up this weekend) and visited Rockefeller Center to flipcam the fans sleeping out before the Justin Bieber concert on the Today Show tomorrow morning. After coming back and editing that video, Chloe (my internship supervisor that I mentioned earlier), told me that Bonnie requested me to be her "voice" on twitter for Hollywood Life. I'm not sure what that means, yet, but I will find out tomorrow after I go see Justin Bieber in concert -- I love that my internship means I get to cover stuff like that!
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