It feels like it was just yesterday that it was 2009. I feel like 2010 came so quickly that I did not realize it. I still write 2009 on some forms and logs. I will start my winter session course in Queens Borough Community College (QCC) tomorrow, January 4^th. I will be taking basic Chemistry within three week duration. I was very impressed on how smooth and easy it was to speak to the registrar and the Chemistry department. I waited for a week and a half for my E-Permit to take the course at QCC and I was worried that the class will be full by the time I registered. Fortunately, it wasn’t and I called a representative from the registrar and they registered me for the course within 5 minutes. Then they were helpful enough to transfer me to the Chemistry department because I wanted to know the books I needed. The Chemistry department then guided me to their outline course outline at qcc.cuny.edu. I was able to find everything to be prepared for my upcoming class.

I celebrated New Year’s Eve differently this year. I usually wait until 10 or 11 at night and take the train to Times Square to try to catch a glimpse of the ball. I am not willing to wait in Times Square the whole day to watch the ball drop. This year I went shopping at Woodbury outlet. My friend and I were debating to go to either Tanger outlet or Woodbury the night before until 2am. We decided that Woodbury would be the best outlet to go to since it has a lot more stores and varieties than Tanger. This is my first time to go to Woodbury and I woke up at 6am the next day to take the bus from the Summit to my home to pick up some cash. Then we arrived at Penn Station by 7:45am to catch the Port Jervis line on the NJ transit. We got off at Harriman and took a bus to Woodbury. I didn’t know that prices for the train ride vary depending on the train stop you are arriving at so I bought a round trip to Port Jervis, the last stop. If I bought a round trip train ride to Harriman, I would have saved over 14 dollars. There were a lot of great stores including Uggs, Polo Ralph Lauren, Gucci, Fendi, Saks Off 5^th Ave., Christian Dior and Coach. I’ve read that the sales after Christmas are better than on Black Friday. The best sale I’ve received during my adventure in Woodbury was 50% to 60% all bags in Coach. I thought it was a great deal so I bought a business attired bag. The whole trip to Woodbury and back to the Summit took only 3 hours each way. It takes about 4 hours to go to the Staten Island Mall, so it was faster to go to Woodbury than to Staten Island Mall.