Hasn't it? No-one in the common room believed me when I said that he was killed by a stingray. So freaking weird.

I am currently in New York with Em, we've just finished eating in Little Italy and we pretty much walked the length of Manhattan from the top of uptown Central Park to the World Trade Centre. Where both of us nearly cried. I dare anyone not to, it's so goddamn sad! But i figure that I should give a bit more of a pre-New York update.

I went to Albany/Schenectady to visit our friend Jen, "the American", an old PC exchange student. On my first night I was taken to the Albany plaza where we set up and played an improptu croquet course for a few hours. It was awesome. We had the added excitement of dodging the ever-changing directions of the plaza sprinklers, as well as winning a nail-biting finish for second last. We then headed for Boston for a couple of days. I loved Boston. It was a gorgeous city but easily the two most exciting things that happened were 1) the discovery of ice-cream injected cupcakes & 2)The random night drive to Essex/Deliverance-ville USA looking for a "bar" Jen's friend owned. It turned out that by "owned a bar" he meant, my friends and I get drunk in the shed next to my parents house.

Since then we got tipsy and watched Kindergarten Cop, played mini-golf (i lost, i'm no better at it than i am at plaza croquet)and watched a midnight screening of Pulp Fiction while we waited for Em to arrive at 2.45am. We made it to the Big Apple yesterday and we're loving it so far. Plans to go to shows, Staten Island, museums galore and a film festival. And that's it so far. Oh, and I think our dorm room smells slightly like baby sick but Em thinks it's more like rotten fruit. The doors do lock though. A MAJOR thank you to Jen for her couch, her car and her video collection.