I'm just a Kentucky girl. I go to school in a relatively well-sized city in Virginia and am proud of where I'm from. When I applied to the Odyssey internship, I assumed I wouldn't get it and so I didn't even think about the fact that it was in New York City.
And then I got it?! And the realizations of the fact that my summer would be spent in the Big Apple hit me and I started to panic a little. I repeat: I'm just a girl from Kentucky who never imagined living in New York City. Sure, I've been there twice before and I did all the touristy things, but actually living there? That's something else.
But God bless Google search for always having my back when I don't know how to do anything. Here are some of the searches I've conducted since accepting the Odyssey internship.
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I'm used to having a huge grocery store within a 5-mile radius. Do people just not eat?!
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I cherish my time with my car and the ability to drive down back roads, blasting music.
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Most of my searches have included some sort of "Do they have ____ in NYC?", forgetting that they have everything you could every imagine. But c'mon, TJ Maxx is a necessity.
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I'm very much a fan of the suggestions after that. #ballinonabudget -- always. Which led me to my next question:
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Sure, the internship's paid, but I'm just assuming on going in the negatives.
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Okay, why does everyone keep asking me where I'm living in New York? ...an apartment? ...New York City? Is that the appropriate answer?
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Going to a school with a lot of New Yorkers, I've learned that basically every pizza I've ever had in my life is completely inadequate compared to ~New York pizza~.
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ALSO THEIR BAGELS?! What's up with the bagel craze? Or wait, am I thinking of New Jerseyans...? They all blend together. #sorrynotsorry
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I am used to filthy humidity in the summertime in both Kentucky and Virginia. Does summer exist in the North?
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Where I'm from, you smile at everyone you see, regardless of whether you know them. Southern hospitality, y'all. But I've been told my niceness won't work up there. YIKES.
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Yeah, sorry, we don't have real public transportation at home, so I'm going to be clueless when it comes to this whole "subway" thing.
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Ugh, I just don't know.
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Oh yeah, totally forgot about places like Buffalo and Syracuse. My b.
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I call myself lucky to have an airport 30 minutes away from me, let alone two more.
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You know you love me.
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Is it wrong to go ahead and refer to myself as Carrie Bradshaw?
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Look, y'all, the only things I know about "the city" are what I've gotten from Netflix.
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At least give me "Friends"!
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The only claims to fame I have at home are telling people that Josh Hutcherson, Jennifer Lawrence, Ashley Judd, and Johnny Depp are from Kentucky. A girl can dream.
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We do things slowly and gently.
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A neighborhood? A town? Why does NYC have to be so fancy in its verbiage?!
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I'm used to going to South Carolina beaches, so thinking of water up north is kind of odd to me.
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Getting ready for a huge culture shock.
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SOS. Stay tuned for more articles ~live~ from New York City this summer! Super excited about this internship and making my way through this crazy place!
