You are learning bar and social culture: you will read the scene it happens in, take apart the pattern behind them (bar vocabulary + social expressions), hear them in a conversation, rehearse them, and finish by saying one thing out loud to be graded.
A rooftop bar in Manhattan — the kind with views of the skyline, craft cocktails, and strangers who become friends by the second drink. New York bar culture is warm, direct, and social.
230 Fifth is a rooftop bar on 27th Street with what may be the most spectacular view of the Empire State Building in New York. Entirely outdoors. Open year-round. At 10pm on a Friday it's packed, warm with conversation, and radiating the specific electricity of New York on a good night.
The stranger is with Marcus. They've ordered cocktails. The Empire State Building is directly in front of them, lit in blue and white. The city extends south in a grid of light.
"Cheers," Marcus says. "To your first week in New York."
"Cheers — to new friends." They clink glasses. The stranger takes a sip. He looks out at the skyline. He feels, suddenly, that he is exactly where he should be.
"I love this city," he says. Marcus laughs. "Everyone does."