A
Swedish girl visiting New York
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A
friend of mine has been to New York for just a few days. She
talks about all fun things she did there. She says that New
York is the coolest city she has ever been to and has seen.
They say that New York never sleeps, is that true? |
The Statue
of Liberty
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Broadway
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 The
first thing she saw in New York was that they have a lot of
Security checks. The Americans were very straight with the people
they let into the country. And why they are so suspicious about
everyone can have a lot to do with the disaster that happened
in 11 September.
The Americans
were very easygoing, they were very brave, they could come up
to you, and start talking to you, even if you never had seen
him or her before. They where not shy, not at all. And Camilla,
my friend thinks that was very nice.
The city, New
York was very big, and I mean really big. There were streets
crossing everywhere, and all the things we have seen on TV and
in movies, she has seen it for real, and according to her it
was really cool.
New York has everything,
and she means everything. They have the coolest theatres, the
best sights, for example Empire States Building, and The Statue
of Liberty, Central Park, Rockefeller centre, New York public
library, and much more. She thinks it was like more people were
awake during the nights, than in the days. We say; New York
never sleeps, and it’s because they are always awake.
Camilla was there on New Years Eve, and that night they went
to a place called Times Square, and there they saw many performances
for example they saw Mariah Carey. She told me that it was the
greatest time of them all, to see her.
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 They
visited many places in New York, for example: The statue of
liberty, Ground Zero (it was there the two twin towers were).
She also visited the large malls for shopping. One evening they
were in a place called Rockefeller centre to see people go skating.
And one cool thing she did was to go up to the top of Empire
State Building. The view was very wonderful from up there. The
food they ate the most was hamburgers and pizza. The size of
the hamburgers was the same as here in Sweden. Yellow taxicabs
drove around everywhere in the streets, just as they do on TV.
A typical American breakfast in New York could be a bagel with
scrambled eggs and bacon.
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New
York is a business town where a lot of business men and business
women live. It’s not a city for families because there are
no houses there, everyone live just in apartments. Ordinary detached
houses don't fit because there are so much people there. And when
a lot of people live in a relatively small area they must build
large houses, so they expand them on the height. That creates
the skyscrapers.
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