CHANs in New York (April2012- ): 77 DAYS

I was browsing and commenting on a friend's blog and it dawned on to me that I have not been updating our own blog for such a long time.

Yes, exactly that, we have now been in the US for 77 days.

We have had a whole month living in the heart of Broadway, right opposite the "Wicked" theatre and survived the ambulance, fire trucks, taxis and police sirens, nightly, hourly and extremely loud. Living in the city does has it's benefits, as with living anywhere in any country, the taxis are at your beckon call, the metro is a walk away, restaurants, shops and banks are also a short walk away. The biggest difference we found is, Manhattan is like 50times the size of Orchard rd Singapore, noisier, less prettier and less upkept.

We've enjoyed Central Park, visited the key museums (after a while, one can get all museum-ed out), had daddy home regularly for 'LUNCH', attended a musical, went shopping in touristy places, walked the same streets as what we see on DVDs and TVs. We have also spent time dealing with banks, with government authorities, with property agents, with car dealers as well as with many many more characters to help us see the US as it is presented to us....real!

The most recent is, the girls have safely integrated to the local school systems here. I have worked hard in logging our days via our status updates on facebook and have failed miserably to update here. To cut the long story short, the girls only had 10weeks of school for Primary 5 & 3 respectively in Singapore and a long 2 month break while we holiday, move and travel to enter into the end of the US school year with only 3+ weeks to spare. We were concerned that they were hardly educated in this particular school 'year' but the teachers here seems happy enough for them to move up the grade with the rest of the kids. Hence, Letitia is 'graduating' to Middle school in September, Mathena is moving up to Grade 4.

We are discovering the region here slowly as we get use to the life here, we are enjoying the slow transition of cold weather (and rapid unpredictable weather) to sunny summer. We are loving the freshness of less humid air and the fact we can actually not use the AC in our cars when we drive in the mornings. And yes, we are ALREADY used to driving on the 'other side' of the road. Let's see what pics we have for you..