AwkwardRules

A couple of weeks ago, a few of us at Xanga were having dinner in the office and somehow the question of why I moved to Brookyn from Manhattan came up, and why I thought Brooklyn was better for me than Manhattan. I couldn’t really think of a reason then, but that weekend I finally realized why.

I usually play soccer in

Prospect Park

on Saturdays around 11, but I woke up too late because of the party that my friend Danny had at his

restaurant at Park Slope

. I got to the park around 3, and it looked like the usual soccer game was done, so I looked around for people playing other sports.

There were some people playing football and I asked them if I could join and they welcomed me in. It was a lot of fun playing, it wasn’t too serious, but people were still playing hard. The group overall was almost a picture perfect view of diversity: there was a black guy, gay asian guy, a few girls, a few people born in new york, a few people originally from other states, a guy from czechoslovakia, and an indian-american guy (which was me, don’t confuse us with american indians, thanks a lot Columbus, you dumbass). We all had a good time, and afterwards a few of us went to a

Japanese restaurant on Flatbush

for dinner.

This is the kind of thing that usually happens in college, and I feel like wouldn’t happen in Manhattan. So I think essentially, I like Brooklyn because it feels more like college.

Don’t think that I don’t like Manhattan though, because I do, I just like Brooklyn more.

Later that same day, I ended up at a

party in East Village

, which was a lot of fun, especially because of the free alcohol. It was my friend Peter’s sister’s friend’s party, so I didn’t know a lot of people but I met a few there. The party was pretty much the same as the idea I have in my head of a classy New York City party. The apartment was very classily decorated, here were strange DVDs playing on the HDTV, people were dressed in upscale suits and drinking wine, and there were high class cookies all around (mmm… s). Oh, and to top it off, there was a guy that was an Al Qaeda analyst for CNN. Or at least he said he was.