 | A video of the best travel ever made!!!
By popular demand, info about the trip:
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This trip was one of the best things that I ever made. I'm going to explain a few things, what I did (in 3 weeks), what I learned, the bad things and the good ones, and some tips :) .
Let's start with what I did:
EF new york is located in a village called Tarrytown to 30 - 45 minuts of Manhattan (Grand Central), almost every day we took the train to visit New York.
In 3 weeks we visited:
Grand Central, Chrysler building, United Nations, Empire State Building, Rockefeller Plaza, World Trade Center, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Metropolitant Museum of Art, 5th Ave (shops), brooklin bridge, coney island, staten Island, Little Italy, Chinatown, SOHO, Times Square, Wall street, greenwich village, central park, ...
There was more but I can't remember it.
We traveled to Washington with EF the first weekend and we took a tour for all the monuments, white house, lincon memoryal, penthagon....bla, bla, bla (too fast, boring and expensive).
At night we went to the center of the city and visited some Clubs...(this saved the trip).
The second weekend we traveled to Canada. These time we rented two cars (with GPS) instead of taking the EF trip (we saved up to 100-150 dollars that way).
There we visited niagara falls and spend some time around visiting the shops.
Then we went to Toronto, where we went to The Guvernment Club (really cool)at night and the next day to the CN Tower (amazing).
What I learned:
The EF school is good, the teachers were very pleasant, The classes were a lot of fun. But in 3 weeks don't expect to learn a lot of things. What really help you is in the comunications because you have to talk in english with your classmates, teachers, people from the city.... This is exactly what you will learn in EF or another school..in 3 weeks.
The bad things:
The most important, the food. Believe me it's very bad, what we ate in the EF school was...shit. Every day you have to eat: chips, hamburgers, pizza, chocolate cake, some kind of "chips ahoy", and other things from "AREA 51". To drink: coke, fanta, sprite, aquarius...oh, and water, tap water...
Another bad thing are the facilities, old, very old...
The weather was very hot (august, normal).
Don't cry if you lose you baggage it's normal, the airlines are very bad... (you are going to recover it in a few days)
The good things:
The friends that I made. The things that I visited, The price of the things (compared to Euros), the full experience of travelling to USA, and other things...
Tips:
First off, forget about the bad things, probably, if you can organize your time, you are going to spend just the night in the school to sleep and the mornings for the class. The rest of the day you will be in ...manhattan.
The food is bad, but you can alway eat some food in Tarrytown or in manhattan...
Go shopping!!! In my case, I'm from spain and the ratio EURO-DOLLAR when I traveled to USA was 1,35, now is 1,47 almost 50% off.... Imagine a Quicksilver sweatshirt that in spain cost 100 euros, ther you are going to find it for... 40-50 dollars, then apply the ratio and you get a sweatshit for 20-25 euros... boooom.
Use the new york subway for everything!!!
Be open with the people you will meet!!!
There are two ways to vacation with EF:
(1) Be the one than go to class and then spend the time in the campus with few people and go to sleep earlier (a looser).
(2) Be the one that go to class and make friends, organize parties in the bedroom... spend a lot of time visiting places bla bla bla (that's the way!).
I hope these help you.
P.D. The last tip I give you is: Do the trip to New York!!!! |