A few weeks ago, I finally met Julie, Val's sister. As I mentioned in a previous post, Val and I went to law school together and have friends in common, but never met until recently. Val and Julie both came to New York on this visit, so I had a chance to hang out with them and Lena. We had a delicious brunch at Julie's friend's restaurant before walking over to do some retail therapy around SoHo.
As an added bonus, we popped into a body and bath store that touts itself as one of the world's oldest pharmacies starting in Florence. As we wandered around the store, Val was the first to notice that the store's only other potential customer was none other than Usher! It took me a bit longer to notice that Lena and I were standing right next to him.
The following day, I met up with Amena and some classmates from high school at a yummy dim sum restaurant in Brooklyn's Sunset Park. Pacificana was packed with hungry dim-summers, and because I was a tad late, Amena, Grace, Joni, Carsten, and their adorable little girl, were all chowing down. It was really nice catching up with them, as I had not seen Joni or Carsten in years and I hadn't seen Grace in a number of months. All of them live in Brooklyn and urged me to check out the borough's neighborhoods. Although I didn't have time to explore Sunset Park, it seemed to have a significant Chinese population, with interesting stores and restaurants in abundance.
Last weekend, I volunteered along with about 20 other Punahou alumni through New York Cares, an organization that facilitates volunteer work in communities throughout the boroughs. We spent a good part of Saturday organizing the textbook closet, painting the fences, and painting the playground of PS 107X in the Bronx. It was a great, albeit short, volunteer experience, and I had the chance to talk to a number of fellow alumni living in New York.
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