![]() ![]() ![]() RSVP to Dawn at or via AWNY Facebook page. All Aussie or NZ women, members or non-members, are welcome. Members of our fun, diverse and creative AWNY committee will be there to welcome you. Oct 30, 6.30pm: AWNY Networking Event at The AustralianĪussie and NZ women are invited to join us at The Australian NYC for a drink and the opportunity to connect with a bunch of amazing Australian women. Have you noticed that New Yorkers jump at any chance to put up decorations? With the gorgeous colours of fall in full effect, there’s still a chance to enjoy adventures outdoors before the chill of winter makes its appearance.Īs usual, AWNY offers many events for the NYC community to connect socially and professionally: The refinished old radiators still clanked when the heat came on – and our neighbors still stepped up to help even when we didn’t think we needed them.It’s November! Halloween unofficially kicks off the holiday season, which means there is plenty of food, fun and festivities coming your way. By Christmas Day, our tree was standing against a new living room wall, decorated with ornaments from the places we had stayed during our months of renovation. ![]() The holidays weren’t supposed to happen that year, but thanks to our fellow shareholders, they did. It was another neighbor holding the Christmas tree we had thought we hadn’t wanted. That night, after we unwrapped the sofa and collapsed in front of a blank television that wasn’t yet hooked up to cable, our new doorbell rang. When I opened the new front door and a large, fragrant wreath fell across the threshold, I didn’t have to read the note to know it was a homecoming gift from our upstairs neighbors. But the more boxes I opened, the more pessimistic I became that this new space would ever feel like home again.īy late afternoon, I needed a break. We awoke Saturday morning on a bare mattress on our bedroom floor and got back to work. We spent the day organizing old stuff and putting it into new places, stepping around power tools and construction workers, using blue painting tape to alert them to scratches, bruises, and blemishes on new surfaces. We pulled up to our building with the moving van on the Friday before Christmas. That’s when I began to worry that we would find more changed when we returned home than just the interior of our apartment. Or, perhaps, after enduring the year of hammering and drilling and sawing going on in our apartment, they had grown tired of us. After all, we were the ones breaking with tradition. Even though we wouldn’t be buying anything except for doughnuts, I felt that I could still be part of the holiday ritual by watching the car. In the year of the move, I asked my neighbors if they could go tree shopping a bit later than usual. My job would be to safeguard our illegally parked car. We would then drive to the Union Square Greenmarket, where my three companions would forage for two trees, two wreaths, a couple of potted poinsettias, and a dozen apple-cider doughnuts. With rope and blankets in hand, the four of us – looking, I sometimes thought, like a group of kidnappers – would meet in front of our downtown co-op. It usually would occur on a Saturday morning in early December. ![]() The excursion has been going on for more than a decade. I called our upstairs neighbor to say we wouldn’t be back in time for the Annual Christmas Tree Trip, our urban version of the journey to chop down pine trees in a snowy field. We were packing up to leave our temporary digs and return home. After nine months of renovation, our apartment was empty. Green-needled branches, newly sprung from their netting, are “relaxing” as my husband and I lug in boxes of ornaments from the storage room.īut this year would be different. Usually by the second week of December our apartment is perfumed with the scent of pine. It seemed like needless stress to organize a major move and also fit in the traditional trappings of the season. Christmas wasn’t on the calendar that year. ![]()
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