NOBODY told me....

- how to open American windows and more important to live with them

- to not sleep with your window open… It is a safe district, but you are still in NYC

- you need to add taxes to the prices marked in shops

- to manage those American dollars notes. The $1 looks exactly the same as the $100… Grrrrr… really prefer the colourful Neo-Zealander or Australian notes. Euro notes… if I well remember (yep, nearly forgot how they are!!! ;-) ) they are quite fade!

- I will arrive in a city where around half of the total Australian population are living. [Australian population = 21 million vs. NYC = 9 million]

- When it raining… it seems to be trendy to wear those plastic colourful boots… sorry, not me!!! ;-)

- When you fall… (yep it seems that I have to experience at least one fall everywhere where I am going!!!) However, Kassy, it was not at 6am after a long night… but a morning on my way to work… ;-) So, yeah… when you fall… spilling all your coins on the floor because of course you were with you wallet in your hand, opened to put your subway card back into it… NOBODY stopped… nobody laughed… [ ;-) Sév!!!! ] So, despite the friendly attitude of the citizen here… here is the reality… But I dare to say that it is the same in every big cities! ;-)

- You can cross whenever you want (as soon as there is no  more cars) ... do not wait the green 'Bonhomme' (actually it's a white 'bonhomme' here!!)... DO not wait, because you will be the ONLY one!!! ;-)