Friday--End of the First Week!

It is hard to believe that we are at end of our first week here and Amanda's first week of classes! She continues to enjoy the experience! Yesterday Amanda ate lunch with several girls, one of whom was from Sweden. Amanda said she spoke English, but when she was on the phone with her mother, was speaking Swedish. Yesterday at one point as they were doing a combination they asked students whether or not they spoke English. There is also a girl in Amanda's level from China and one from Japan.
We ate last night at La Prima Fresca Restaurante--right underneath our apartment. Actually if you go out on out deck--you see the top of the skylight of the restaurant. I'll have to take a picture of our deck one day! The food was very good and by the way that is a bottle of olive oil on the table! We enjoyed our food immensely and went back to the apartment to relax.

Today the rain had disappeared, so time for of course--shopping I wandered down to Herald Square and across the street found a huge 2-story Victoria's Secret so of course had to visit the PINK store there which was on the second floor. After that I went to Macy's and spent a lot of time wandering around. I made it up to the 8th floor! There is a Starbucks inside Macy's, Le Bon Pain, McDonald's, Ben and Jerry's, and even an Auntie Anne's pretzels. I'm sure Amanda will love to come back and shop. They have a lot of brands and labels that are different than the Macy's in Washington.

Today Amanda had her technique class and pas class with Franco deVita--he is the head of the JKO School here at ABT. She said he was a great teacher and got a lot out of the class. She also has rep and choreography later. We are looking forward to our weekend when Bruce, Melissa, and Muffin will be visiting. Initially we were planning on going to the Freed Store here in NY, but it is not open on Saturdays, so we will spend our time exploring the city!