I woke up to Emily I think, and she was telling me we were going to go see the sunrise (sorta). I was sort of energized after my short nap, while everyone else was in that half hyper, half groggy, half half asleep state.
We somehow managed to make our way upstairs to Hemispheres, which has an outdoor seating area. We all went out onto the patio and looked out over the skyline, in awe of the city in the morning. It was one of those picturesque moments, and I know so many people got a billion great pictures! Ahh, if you guys could have been there, I mean, I would give it up if that meant every single one of you could be there, witnessing the beauty of New York in the morning with several of your closest friends around you.
We spent a lot of time watching as the sky lit up, standing around talking and just basking in it all. They got all of us together to take a few pictures with the whole of everything behind us. I was one of the last to leave to head back downstairs to get ready for breakfast then our presentations.
I don't know if I mentioned this, and I probably did, but I had been wearing my glasses for almost 12 hours, which never actually happens. The first thing I did when I got downstairs was put my contacts in, which people thought was weird since I'd been up for so long, but it felt a lot better having my contacts back in. We went to breakfast, and probably looked ridiculous to all the BOLD immersion students, and the actual Googlers.
We got back to Tech Talk, and set about preparing ourselves for super awesome fun presentations with 58 half asleep students. Sounds good, right?
Oh it was! While it was hard sitting in the audience, everyone who was on stage did a superb job! I was super tired, and so I don't remember a ton of what everyone said, but I remember that the gist of everyone's programs was along the lines of making it easier to find events that are going on, or will be going on.
When we took the stage we spent a good amount of time trying to get the screens to work, so I decided to take the mic and improvise. I started off with a few bad knock knock jokes.
"Knock Knock!"
Everyone started laughing, so I couldn't hear anything.
"Did you say 'Who's there?' because I couldn't hear."
"Who's there?"
"Boo"
"Boo Who?"
"Don't cry it was only a joke."
I tried to think of a good one, but got:
"Knock Knock!"
"Who's there?"
"Tuba."
"Tuba who?"
"Tuba toothpaste."
If I remember correctly someone else told a joke, but I don't remember that, sorry. It was after that last joke though that I decided to stop telling bad jokes.
Someone told me to sing a song. I was about to start A Whole New World, but in my tired state I forgot how to start it out. The only other song I could think of was Hakuna Matata, so I started off slow.
"Hakuna Matata..."
"What a wonderful phrase." It was this line that a lot of people joined in.
"Hakuna Matata, aint no passing craze!"
I don't know how far into the song we got, but our presentation started working, and everyone was laughing or singing, so I handed the mic over to Victoria who was starting our presentation.
It went well, everything worked like we had wanted it to, and I feel like there weren't as many speed bumps as there could have been. After that we had some lunches that they had packed for us, and it was time to start saying goodbyes, and get everything out before we had to all leave.
It was fun, and awesome, and super sad all at the same time. Eventually, even though I don't think they liked doing it, Cat, Isa and Stephanie had to ask us to all leave, because we weren't technically allowed to be there or something, I honestly don't remember that either...
What do I remember then? Haha.
I remember getting to play the Ha Game one time, before we all left, while we were all delirious and having the time of our life. I remember thanking Cat, Isa and Stephanie for everything they had done for us. I remember having to say good bye to all the CSSIers a second time. I remember thinking that we'd done it once, we'd left and met back up so it was no longer as sad because the chances of us seeing each other again are pretty great as long as we actually want to, and even if we don't try, if we all shoot for Google we're bound to at least see each other again.
When we finally left, Lynn, Emily, Sara, Mario, Izzy, Kofi, Sam, Elissa, and myself all made our way to the hotel we had left the previous day to check in for our last little hoorah in New York.
More on that in the next post, because it's 3 AM, my laptop is dying, and I'm super tired.
Yesterday was super short, but felt so very long, and not in all the awesome ways I thought it would. I'm still not entirely capable of living in the now. I keep fading in and out of the future, and that makes being here in Amarillo hard, because there's not much of it in my future. I'm kind of torn between UT and Google, as far as where I feel most at home, and I really want to still feel that about Amarillo. I love this town, and truly can't see why people don't like it. It's because of this town that I am who I am, so I may be weird, but I can't help but love that.
Oh no, if I stay here I'll just keep going on rant after rant that my tired mind wanders to, because I think way more when I'm tired, especially about non physical things like emotions and morals and whatever else may crop up.
I promise I'll finish off New York in the next post, and then I can get back to me pretending to have some sort of important ideas that if people took a moment to read might cause them to think and maybe one day cause them to grow some. I dunno.
Night readers. Love you all, so much. =D
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