Thursday started off awesomely, with us having to pack everything up and check out of the hotel. We then had to make the trek to Google. It wasn't normal, in that we had to carry all our luggage, and luckily it was early in the day so it wasn't too unbearable.
We got to Google, and put all of our luggage in Tech Talk then headed off to Five BB for breakfast again. There wasn't enough room in the dining area, so we decided we would go eat out in the mini kitchen. It was nice, and we ate and talked about all things Googley. While we were eating, Demian, one of the speakers from CSSI laster year, walked by, and we started talking to him.
He told us about the BOLD immersion program, and a bit more about the specifics of the different programs. We then got a picture with him, and he went to go catch up with his students. Shortly afterwards a security guy came around, and asked too see all of our name tags. We showed them to him and he proceeded to ask us why we were there. We told him we were part of FUSE and we were eating breakfast. He walked off, and shortly after he left Cat came out and told us that they got mad at them, telling them we weren't allowed to be outside the classroom unaccompanied. She apologized, and we walked back with her to Tech Talk.
I don't exactly know how to describe it, but I don't like the fact the NYC Google is more uptight than Cali Google. I understand that having security is kind of important, but that being said, this year, when we're a bit more matured and grown up we were treated like little kids compared to last year. Only downside, and it wasn't even that big of one. =P
So we got back to Tech Talk, and the first thing on the list was a class in App Inventor. It was really neat, and I started playing with it and managed to throw together a cheap little app that allowed me to text someone. It was fun, and could probably be used be people who didn't even know a lot about programming specifics.
After that, we had lunch at the usual, this time with no security interference. I probably had some awesome conversations, but I don't recall because it has been several days since then with an all nighter somewhere in there. We got back to Tech Talk, and had a class about presentation skills. It was nice, and we got a ton of pointers to help with our presentations in the morning. After that, we got to watch a live stream of a video conference that the VP of the European Offices was holding, where he talked about managing. It was definitely interesting hearing what he had to say on the matters.
They then set us free, telling us that we had 4 hours to do whatever we wanted. A group of us got together, and ran to the Met at Central Park. We got there, and were on the opposite side of Central Park so we walked through Central Park. It was beautiful!! We had several photo ops while in the park, one of which, was probably my favorite. While we were walking Shachaf (See, Awesome) shouted out, "Photo in 3, 2, 1." and we all spun around and posed as she took the picture.
It was an amazing picture, as were the tons of other pictures we took. We arrived at the Met, and several of us had ended up showing up a bit later than the first part of our group, so our small group went to see the photography section first. It was more than amazing watching Lynn's face as she looked at all the pictures on the walls. It was one of the best things to watch as she was completely in awe of the photos. She's amazing, and I truly don't doubt that she could one day have a photo in a museum. She's that awesome.
We then tried to make our way to the Asian Art, but got distracted for a moment. In that moment Lynn got roped into a conversation by this guy who I thought was nice, at first, but as the conversation went on I kind of worried about her. We stayed in the room with her, until the guy left, then we ran to the Asian Art part of the building. We got there as everything was closing, so most of the exhibits were already closed off.
We met up with the entirety of our group outside and started to discuss what we wanted to do next. I think all the guys wanted to go to Nintendo World, so we all decided to make the trek 40 blocks to find the store. On the way we walked through Central Park, and took an amazing picture on an Alice in Wonderland statue, as well as a few more great pictures. After we had gone 20 something blocks we decided to catch a bus. It took us right up to the Nintendo store basically.
Our first stop was a Five Guys that happened to be right there. It was great, and we scarfed it down pretty quickly since we had to head back soon. A few of us still needed to go to the Nintendo store, so we ran over there and did some shopping. Dusan really wanted to hit up a Best Buy, so he went to go find one. After we did our shopping we started to make our way back to Google. Everyone else was already gone, and Dusan hadn't returned so I kind of freaked out and started calling anyone I could to see if they could get a hold of him.
We walked through Times Square, and I knew exactly where to go to get us back. I found it strange how we ended up back in Times Square unexpectedly. Haha. So we were hurrying to get back, and I was super worried about getting in touch with Dusan. We finally ended up back at Google, and hurried upstairs. The first thing I did when I got in was talk to some people to see if they had heard anything before going to talk to Stephanie about the inability to contact him. We tried the number they had, but it wasn't working, and so she told me they would work on finding him.
After that I actually looked around the room, which had been redecorated in the most awesome of ways. I'll explain it to ya in the next post. =D
Since I'm not connecting all the days I'm behind on I'll go ahead and tell you he's safe. Thankfully. I was super worried, and feel really bad about not going with him to Best Buy.
Love you guys, miss New York and FUSE and all of you, but I'm glad to be home with everyone here too.
Night! =D
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