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" One week after saying goodbye to all my college friends, I was on a plane to visit one of them up in Connecticut! The whole trip was spurned by a discovery that my favorite band, Florence + the Machine, was playing close to Jessie&amp;#039;s house. We ended up also visiting New York City and Boston! The trip was fantastic because we got to see all the touristy spots as well as drive a duck boat tour, chase a giraffe, tour the Seventeen offices, and do a whole lot of other fun and silly things.  It was my first time &amp;quot;up north,&amp;quot; and, having grown up in South Carolina, I was expecting people to be stereotypically unfriendly. Besides the one giraffe in the Toys R Us in Times Square who ran away from us because we wanted pictures with it, the people were actually great! Even the NYPD tried to help us find where our Broadway show was \u2014 which, by the way, was starring NICK JONAS! Ladies, I never got to see him in concert when I was in middle  school, so this token see-the-dream-boy-in-person moment was way overdue. The show, How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, was BRILLIANT (tip: if you go on Wednesday and are under 25, you get $30 tickets!). Oh did I mention we were almost late to the show? We accidentally took a 50-minute detour on the subway in the opposite direction. Oops... This was after having dinner in Brooklyn with Kara, the girl who put this very blog online for you to read right now! All the Freshman 15 work with her and it was so exciting to finally meet her and have dinner! Continuing my pattern of telling you my day backwards, before dinner I got to tour the offices of SEVENTEEN!! It&amp;#039;s great, ladies. It really is. There&amp;#039;s a room FILLED with clothes; racks upon racks just for one issue. There&amp;#039;s also a room filled with makeup. Everyone at Seventeen is so young and cute and so friendly!  In Connecticut we went to the Florence concert which was amazing amazing amazing amazing. I have been waiting for three years to see her and she was absolutely fantastic. We were dancing from the minute she walked on. If you haven&amp;#039;t heard all her songs, then you don&amp;#039;t know how badly you are missing out. Check out &amp;quot;Howl&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;All This and Heaven Too&amp;quot;, two of my personal favorites.  In Boston we got to explore the city via Duck Boat Tour after enjoying some classic New England clam chowder at Legal Seafood, the amazing restaurant recommended by my awesome stats teacher and former Bostonian, Mr. Saggese. The tour was great \u2014 not only did the bus/boat drive through the city, it also went INTO the Charles river and WE got to DRIVE the boat! Boston was beautiful and the people were so pleasant.  I&amp;#039;m so glad Florence ended up playing in CT so I had excuse to visit. Jessie&amp;#039;s family was such a great host for me on my little trip up north and it couldn&amp;#039;t have gone better! It was so much fun every day, even when we had an hour to kill on the final day and ended up playing hide and seek in the Best Buy for an hour, showing that even after a full year of college you can still have fun like a child as long as you&amp;#039;re with your best friends! Have you ever visited New York or Boston? What was your favorite part of each? Tell me all about it in the comments section below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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