Now that Ravi has offended (see below) all of our African American readers (hey, it could happen someday), I will first apologize, and then continue with what most likely will become a weekly graveyard-shift-at-ARC post, and fullfil my promise to you to keep updating and keep this blog chugging along like the little Engine-that-could that it is. Um, read, look, enjoy:

My Trip to New York by Danny Wasserman (first grader)

Last night me and Lauren took a trip to New York to see the big buildings and lights and stuff, and we saw some really cool other things too. Well firstly I had to take the train, which was a whole lot of fun. Wheeeeee!! When I got off the train, I saw Lauren, who did the same job at Aircast that I do at the Computer Lab, make sure that the internet is still there. Anyways, we got on a Path train that smelled a lot like pee-pee, (some of the poeple on the train must have needed their diapers changed), and went zooming up to the city. I think we passed by a garbage dump, but when I asked Lauren she said it was just North Jersey.

We got to the city and went to Irving Plaza, where we were going to see some bands. I was so excited! We were on the guest list so we got in for free. The first band was "Say Hi to Your Mom", which I guess they picked as their name so that they would always remember to do that, I know I remembered the next day. The show was good, but I don't know if anyone in the crowd was really listening to the bands. They were looking at them, but most were just nodding their heads at someone. I guess they were agreeing with the words in the songs, but I wasn't really sure. When the show finished we went to get hot dogs at Gray's Papaya. They were really yummy. Lauren had to go pee-pee, and she went into one of the doors in Grays. I didn't think it was a bathroom but I guess it was because she came out feeling much better.

It was finally time to leave, so we got back on the Path train, and went back to Newark. I think we took too much time getting hot dogs, becasue when we got to Newark, the trains weren't running anymore :( Luckily someone was still awake and said they would come and pick us up, so we waited outside. There were lots of people getting off of path trains that passed by us, and they all smelled like my daddy when he's having his "sad time". The train must have been really bumpy, becasue a lot of the people were walking funny, kinda wobbly, like they couldn't stand up straight, and they looked kinda sick. We waited with these two nice guys, T-Bone and J-Dog, and they were kinda silly. They kept calling this other guy who was wearing a yellow shirt "mustard shirt" and making jokes about eating hot dogs. There was another man who also smelled funny, and he was standing kinda near us. He was scary looking, and he asked us what we were doing. We said we were ok. I think he liked me becasue he kept on staring at me, but it wasn't a happy look, it was kinda making me uncomfortable. I was glad when someone finally came up to pick us up. We whent home and when we got back we all had sleepy brownies, and went to bed after a long, and fun day. Hooray!