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By Dawn Gross There are millions of people in New York City, there are millions of people in Manhattan alone. So me and my best friend figured that if those millions of people could survive it, than so could we. When school got out and we had caught up on all the sleep we had missed from last semester, we packed our bags and flew to New York. We were both born and raised in Minneapolis, city girls at heart, so where better to move than the busiest city in America. We came to New York with no jobs and no apartment, actually we hadn’t thought farther than getting out of Minnesota. Of course things don’t always turn out like you expect them to. Personally, I was expecting to run into Chris Brown and have him break up with Rihanna to take me shopping and to awards shows all summer. Well, the summer is almost over and Chris Brown is still with Rihanna (but probably just cuz I haven’t run into him yet). Some things worked out great, we got an apartment pretty quickly. It might not be in a neighborhood that our parents would feel comfortable with us living in, but hey we’ve lived here all summer and not seen one bug! There are bugs in Minneapolis but in New York, cockroaches are like part of the city population. When you are stepping into that subway station, you are in their territory and they will let you know it! For two girls that can’t stand even a little spider, cockroaches in New York have been the hardest thing to get used to. Well, we still haven’t gotten used to it to be honest, we are still the girls that will scream and run to the other side of the street if there is a cockroach on the sidewalk. But getting used to them takes time, much longer than the 3 months that we had here. 3 months is not a long time, but apart from the bug thing, becoming a New Yorker can happen as little as 2 weeks. Times Square is like the epitome of New York, there’s nothing like it anywhere else in the world. When we first moved to New York, we’d go there everyday just because we could. The tourist thing wasn’t a problem, we’re typical Minnesota nice so it would take a lot for tourists in Times Square to push us to our limit. Now, however, there is nothing worse than tourists that walk slow because they’re constantly looking up, that stop in the middle of a busy sidewalk to take a picture, and that expect you to move out of the way for them (it’s only acceptable when I do that). In Minnesota it’s pretty easy to avoid tourists: just don’t go to the Mall of America. In New York, they are everywhere. You know you’re becoming a New Yorker when you’d rather scream at people walking in front of you than enjoying the fact you’re in Times Square. I guess true New Yorkers try to avoid it at all costs, but we’re not at that stage yet! We love doing things that are unique to New York, like sitting in Central Park and deciding which penthouse we will own someday (me and Usher will have that penthouse with a huge terrace on 57th street). We love just hopping on the train and going to the beach. Coney Island is a great place to spend a summer day, especially when that one guy walks around in his mini skirt booty dancing to Beyonce that’s blaring from his old school Walkman. We came to New York expecting a different life, a change of scene, and to meet new people. Life is a lot different out here, in good ways and bad, but for the most part we got what we wanted. At first we thought New York guys were different from our boys back in Minnesota but nahhh , girls let me tell you, guys are the same everywhere! We met a lot of great people and we will never forget the way a guy from Brooklyn says ‘hilarious’ or how somebody from Harlem says ‘coffee’. So for now, its back to Minneapolis, but we left our mark on New York and