A day in the city..

Since my host mum has a train pass into the city,and I'm able to get there for free I'm ready to take full advantage of it. So after finally finishing my classes in Harlem I decided to explore this Sunday. We ended up doing street food in Bryant Park (the ice rinks are coming out), found a super tourist LOVE  sculpture, wandered round central park (the street talent is amazing). Then we got the subway down to the 9/11 memorial and freedom tower before wandering over the iconic Brooklyn bridge to see that beautiful skyline and have dinner at Grimaldis. Super touristy day, and I loved every second of it..

Hula Hula xox

Cliche American

I'm sat in a Starbucks with my beloved Mac Pro, sipping on a hot chocolate (its 8pm, no coffee for me) surrounded by others doing exactly the same thing,admittedly they seem to be doing college  work but does this mean I'm officially the stereotypical American dream? 
How hilarious, as well as this I'm wondering what they think of my style, they seem to dress pretty different here and for some reason whenever I meet new people they always tell me I give a hippy vibe (lord knows how) 
late(ish) night ramblings i suppose 
hula hula xox 

Long distance loving'....

How cheesy huh?
It always happens when you least expect it...I met a boy in June of this year, Alec, who I've known of through mutual friends and twitter (so weird). After a couple of month of intense dates and trips up to Newcastle to spend weekends together it was getting serious...then off i went for 3 weeks inter railing round Europe. Mid trip I found out I had gotten a job in America for a year. It's fair to say it shook shit up, technically we had been only seeing each other 2 months and we had to decide where we were going with this.... as you can probably guess we chose to make a go of it. We spent the most amazing 4 days in London as I was getting my visa (a bittersweet)and he was there to see me off at the airport and has been the most amazing support system I could ever imagine. It's fair to say that this month so far has been difficult and whenever I'm a little homesick I think 'why have I left this boy behind for a year, what have I done'. But in today's technology; Skype, Whatsapp and FaceTime it should be easy right? But there's still a balance to be had, to still enjoying my experiences over here and not being glued to my phone contacting him.  However he has already booked over to come spend the week in NYC with me in January, perks of having an (temporary) american girlfriend I'm sure.
It feels crazy that it's come to this and I never expected to be in this position when I applied for it.

Hula Hula xoxox

That Mulberry thang

Jeeeeeez have I fallen for Mulberry bags hard lately (I think it's been spurred on that they're cheaper here than at home) I've spent hours trawling their website looking at bags and purses and endlessly tried to explain to my other half that they are at INVESTMENT, and it's not like I'm choosing the most expensive bags. I'm a lady of classic black and these would be my dream picks;

(Realistically this is the beauty I'd pick, mostly because its the cheapest, poor girl problems)

And well there may as well be a matching purse in there too....

Hula Hula xoxo

Falling for fall..

Very inspired with my move to blog a lot more about experiences here, I've had to create a sticky note with around 12 blog post ideas (jeeeeez) 

But anyways it's Autumn or Fall as the Americans call it and oh my lord the difference between our seasons is incredible. Everyone at home seems to be posting about rain, scarves and hot chocolate. Where I am (around half an hour from NYC) the weather is beautiful, the trees are golden, theres wildlife everywhere and although it's a bit chilly on a morning, it's normally around 22 degrees by 11am! How crazy and beautiful is it!

As well as this as soon as October fell Halloween decorations have been popping up everywhere (they take this stuff seriously) I've seen huge spider webs spanning whole houses with 3ft spiders on them to pumpkins and hanging ghosts from trees and Halloween isn't even here yet! I still don't have a costume which is considered pretty serious at this point and I'm super jealous of the au pair who's decided to dress up as Mary Poppins. Any suggestions would be welcome!

My families front 'yard' so far, theres so much more to add.

Hula Hula xoxox

The Blogger returns...

Jeeeeeez I am so so bad at blogging so far, I noticed that my last post was about my grad ball and that seems soooooo long ago. I've graduated, travelled Europe and ... I've moved over to America for a year to be an au pair just outside NYC (I'm the luckiest girl in the world). I look after two children a girl aged 6 and a little boy who's 4, and it's a handful but I'm trying to embrace it! 

These are a few snaps from my initial move over here ..

Huuuuuge piece of Oreo cheesecake (my weakness)

Times Square

New York Skyline from the Staten island ferry

  

The Apple flagship store (feat people camping outside)

The top of the empire state building

NY Skyline from the Jersey Side (Hoboken)

Life doing the school run

Hula Hula xoxo