Living the Hostel Life...well not yet

I know that this entry has nothing to do with Greek Life, but hey, I thought it would be interesting and it could show all those who are interested in Greek Life that you can have a life outside of Greek Life.

I'm the training director for the college radio station, WONY 90.9FM. Every year, the station gets the chance to go to the College Music Journal Festival in NYC. I'm pumped because my badge gives me full access to see my favorite bands, Coheed and Cambria, Broken Social Scene, Minus the Bear, and Saves the Day. However today just threw a huge wrench in our plans. We reserved SA buses but for some reason, someone (not me because I didn't have a hand in this) put down that we were coming back to campus on Friday, when the festival ends on Saturday. So it looks like we are going to try to get the SA to give us a gas card because there is no way we can return on Friday, it would be a waste of the school's money to do so. So we are going to take two cars, but we can't take mine because my car has around 29,920 miles (I'm just guest-imating) on it and I was planning to get my car serviced for the 30,000 checkup in November when I had the money to do that. I don't mind going over the 30,000 miles to go home or doing little trips in Oneonta, but I don't feel comfortable taking a round trip from Oneonta to NYC. That- and I don't trust my car in a parking lot in NYC. It's a 2006 Toyota Rav4 and if I do that, I'm pretty sure I'm just asking for it to be stolen/broken into. And the biggest factor is: I have never driven in NYC before. I am from Upstate NY, I am not used to that kind of traffic and it's not like I can hand the wheel over to someone else because I'm the only one who's insured to drive the car, god forbid anything happens.

Then- the hostel situation. I have never stayed in a hostel before. We are going to have 8 people with us and the rooms fit 10 beds, so we're probably having 2 random people stay in our room. Uhhh again, I don't know how I feel about that. I am hoping that we will have nice people stay with us at least. This trip sounded so exciting at first...spending the week to go to NYC and seeing concerts and meeting other radio stations... and now it just seems that all the logistics aren't working out.