Hey there upper east (and world-) siders, the Gossip Girls are here. Your one and only source into the exciting and international life of the girls and boys from the Belo USA trip!

Spotted: a bunch of exchange students discovering New York City. It all started off with the a walk from the public library in NY which is the United States’ 3^rd biggest library.

Then, the groups’ tour guides Garret and Juan chased the teenagers through the Rockefeller Plaza, Central Park, showed them the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and saw an Israeli celebration at Columbia University. The buses took the groups through Harlem to Greenwhich village where the starving crowd got some delicious lunch.

Daniela (Chile), Anne (France), Lhorie (Belgium), Laura (Belgium), 
Julia (Germany), and Claudia (Italy) in Central Park

Julia (Germany) and Laura (Belgium) at the Israeli Celebration

After that they were spotted at the stairs of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a crazy group picture and some cultural education. I heard someone saw the kids heading to the amazing lights of Times Square afterwards. Everybody’s breath was taken by the beautiful body of the naked cowboy playing guitar and spiderman hanging from the streetlight.

Louise (Denmark), Linda (Germany), Carl (Norway), Charlotte (Germany), Mohab (Egypt), Linus (Germany),
Paul (Austria) in Times Square

Dinnertime in an Italian atmosphere with singing, dancing, and more food than anyone could eat.

Instead of relaxing after this long day, two of Shakira’s background dancers showed them some cool hip hop dance moves, even though none of the exchange students were professional dancers.

After a fun bus ride back to the hotel, everybody went right to bed to get ready for the day tomorrow, cause I heard it’s gonna be a blast!

You know you love us, xoxo, 

The Gossip Girls (aka Julia, Germany and Linda, Germany)

(Reproduction of a Gossip Girl scene on the steps of the MET)