6th January 4.50am

O my god I'm tired!! But I'm all packed & ready to go.

The snow isn't much worse than before and there is no news on the flight being delayed yet... fingers crossed :)

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1 More Sleep

I am sat in my lovely room in Gill Street so ridiculously excited that i can't sit still! Today has been complete and utter chaos...

I woke up to about one million inches of snow in my garden & turned on the radio to hear about Manchester airport being shut & all Leeds flights being delayed and had a small panic attack! But the determination got me through & I packed up the ten tonnes of things I brought home with me (pointlessly) as well as all my new christmas things to head back up to Nottingham. When the car was finally loaded up (my dad definitely could not see out the back windscreen, i was squished into the door & my mum had about one hundred dresses on her knee) we set off in the snow, all questioning whether it was a very safe idea... but hey, New York was calling.

We finally made it though and I am now all unpacked... at last. It's sooo quiet here it's freaking me out & there is a buzzing noise coming from the corridor that's worrying me but i am too cosy to move. I think I am finally organised- there are lists all over my room as I am possibly the most forgetful, unorganised person that ever existed! My gorgeous New York calender pinned up on my wall is making me smile :)

I am hoping that at 5.30 in the morning no one is expecting me to look nice! The struggle of getting the suitcase down the stairs then me & Ashlee attempting to wheel them through the snow & down the hill to the coach is a whole different problem... I'll let you know how it goes.

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Ridiculous Levels of Excitement

The impatience of waiting for New York has finally got to me- tomorrow is the big day & the excitement has become unbearable! No longer can I wait until I am in New York to see what is in the shops- for the past week I have found myself constantly browsing through the internet on US shopping websites.
However, this New York obsession has given me some insight into what to expect when I’m shopping in the Big Apple. As well as browsing the shops’ websites I have been looking at trend prediction articles to give me some ideas about what I am likely to see in the millions of shops I plan to visit. I can just imagine on the way home that my suitcase is going to be packed full with just a few of these items…

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Itinerary for New York

- a brief guide to what I will be up to in New York

Day 0 - Wednesday 06/01/10
17:05 Arrive at hotel
18:00 Quick Midtown orientation
Day 1 - Thursday 07/01/10
10:00 Meet at the Museum of The Fashion Institute of Technology (MFIT)
12:00-20:00 Midtown / Fifth Avenue
Day 2 - Friday 08/01/10
10:00-20:00 Uptown, Fifth Avenue, Rockefeller
Day 3 – Saturday 09/01/10
10:00-20:00 Downtown, SoHo, Broadway
Day 4 – Sunday 10/01/10
10:00-17:00 Final Retail research opportunity
17:30 Coach leaves for Airport
Day 5 - Monday 11/01/10
14:30 approx Arrive in Nottingham

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