New York
Dear Diary,
Eight years has gone from our ten-years-plan. We made this plan with my friends when we were eighteen, and just before we left high school and gone to University.
We said ten things we will do in the next ten years. We said. We promised.
So we have to do them, and who completes them first wins a very expensive dinner which will be paid by the losers.
So I came to New York, because one of the points is here. The statue of liberty.
I need to go there. I just so do not want to do this.
But I have to. If I want to beat them up and get that expensive dinner. I know they have not done this challenge yet. None of them want to because this is one of the biggest one. You have to travel up here, and get the ticket to the island and then go there and then do what we said we must do in order to complete the challenge.
I am nervous.
Dear Diary,
I HAVE DONE IT!
Sometimes I was wondering why people in Manhattan hate the tourists so much and why no true American goes to the Statue of Liberty just for fun. I shall wonder no more.
So… I went and got the ticket and I went through security. It is like an airport security, they check your bag, check you. You wait, and queue and wait and queue. After a nice hour or two you get on that ferry that takes you to the island
The statue is small from distance, but huge when you are getting closer to it. There is one thing I realized; they show the Statue of Liberty much bigger in the movies. I remember seeing the cover of the movie called Day after tomorrow, and on that cover the Statue is big as the Rockefeller Centre. I guess it is because the Statue is a national symbol, so they try to make it more impressive.
Anyway. I walked up there. I went close.
The island was full of tourists. Many Japanese, I have only seen that many in movies. It is true what they joke in the movies about Japanese tourists, they cannot stop clicking with their high-tech cameras. They are rather just taking billions of photos than actually stop and look at a place or the Statue of Liberty for the matter of fact.
I touched the bottom of the Statue, then took a deep breath and get into the elevator to go up to the top.
When I have entered the top; packed with more Japanese tourists and some other. I stepped to the edge, and took a moment to enjoy the spectacular view and feeling of freedom that was instantly delivered by this view.
You are up there; look at New York City and all you can say is ‘WOW’. I slowly took my phone out and switched on the video. I recorded some of the view then turned the camera towards myself and waived for my viewers.
I took a deep breathe from that wind of freedom and I shouted what I had to in order to complete the challenge and get closer to that dinner.
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