Several months later, we had to move to NYC because of my dad’s job, and I found myself at Léman Manhattan Preparatory School. Even though I missed my friends at Fay, being in the heart of New York City was super exciting. Léman Manhattan Prep is literally located across the street from the New York Stock Exchange, and I felt like I was watching history happen almost every morning on the way to school.

Here, for example, is a picture my dad snapped one morning before dropping me off. It just happened to be the day when Uber became a publicly traded company, which meant anyone could now own a piece of it.

Speaking of history, my school’s building used to be a bank that went bankrupt during the Great Depression. Part of our cafeteria was downstairs in what used to be the vault where they kept all the money! You would enter through giant vault doors like the kind you might see in a bank heist movie!