NYC 便り

I have arrived in NYC on Monday and completed the 2nd day at the office. I am severely jet lagged but I managed to stay awake till the end of work day today. I have made some progress so far.

I have found an apartment yesterday after viewing five places. It is on the 60th Street, so it will be about 20 mins walk to the office (walkable distance with heels!!). It is a simple and basic apartment. I knew it, but I was still amazed by how expensive the apartments are here. I saw one place, nice and clean but so tiny, which still costs $2200. I thought I will be claustrophobic in such place. I was almost ready to sign up for a place (small one bedroom) for $2600. I decided to look around a bit more and found this place, spacious studio on the 4th floor, minimum furnishing but clean, facing a road and a bit on a noisy side (I am used to noise by now) with two friendly Bengali concierges. Compared to the other place I will be saving so much money, and to live for only three months, this will do hopefully.

I am settling in work as well thanks to nice colleagues and a supervisor. I had my new e-mail address, ID card issued, introduced to the people in the unit, started reviewing documents, ate at the office cafeteria (subsidized yet costs around $6 for lunch- to me still feels expensive). Bumped into a former colleague from different agency in KTM. He did not know that I was in NYC, so he was so surprised.

I have not done any fun activities, unlike the last time when I was here two years ago (I started shopping on the 1st day...) I will start meeting some people and need to find a yoga studio asap.

時差ボケでふらふらながらも元気です。アパートも、かなり安いところが見つかりました。と言っても、１７００ドルだから、高いけどね。ＫＴＭの広々としたアパートが恋しい。金曜日の朝に、今滞在している日割りのアパートからそちらに引っ越します。今日も、もう早く寝よう。