spring break

let me tell you about my first bus ride by myself here. it's been three months since i've been here and yes, this is going to be my first busride. i wanted to take the bus last friday cos macy's was having a one day sale on saturday but was starting on friday ( i know it didn't make sense to me too, but hey! who can argue with a sale! ) but the i got so fed up of waiting in the cold that i just went home and watched tv. figured i could always go on saturday right?! wrong!! the bus doesn't go to the mall on weekends!! arggg.. the guys and i were so ticked off. we ended up having delicious chocolate chip pancakes at pancake house. the most delicious things ever!!

so come monday, i really needed to visit the mall to buy myself something nice. it was a reward to myself for doing such an excellent job on my chem and bio exams and my english essay presentation. ( speaking of which, there was this girl who wrote a really nasty essay. her topic : languages should be taught in all schools. her argument : to make communicating with immigrants easier. her reasoning : because the reason why immigrants come to the states is to run away from poverty. therefore, they would not have had an form of education. so americans need to learn to speak the languages of other countries so as to be able to help them out. arggggg right! i was sitting there reading the essay and looking at her and going what is she thinking? that might have been true decades ago but now..?? so anyway, back to my busride story. )

so monday after classes, i went home for a quick change and waited at the bus stop. joe said he really wanted to come with me but he couldn't afford to miss cv. so i looked at the schedule, the buses only come once every hour ( that's how obselete the public transport service is like here. see why i soo badly need a car dad??? ) so i wait. for an hour and fifteen minutes!! there was another lady waiting. she said that the four o'clock bus is ALWAYS late. and when the bus did come, we got on but the bus driver got off! she just got off the bus and went into a nearby building and never came out til ten minutes later! the lady i was waiting with said that she always does that. and she's the only bus driver who does that. so everyone in the bus was waiting impatiently for her to come back. when she did and we finally got going, i was looking out the window for all the busstops to see where i can get off in future to visit other places.

so i got to the mall safe and sound. time flies here. you don't want to know the things i bought myself. =) while i was walking around, there were these four teenagers who were creating such a din that they had to be escorted out the building by FIVE security guards.

so anyway, when it was time to go home, i was waiting at the bus stop. i look across the streets and lo and behold, it's those punks coming towards me! i was praying, please don't be waiting for the bus please don't be waiting for the bus. no such luck. they WERE waiting for the bus. and they had to wait in the same cubicle that i was waiting in. they were singing, shouting, cussing. then one finally decided it was time to light a cigarette. so i took my stuff and wanted to leave the cubicle, pretending that i thought i saw my bus. thank goodness a bus really did come. and it was my bus too! i was praying again, please don't board my bus please don't board my bus. i'm not going to lie. they really scared me. i was really really really terrified. guess what? they got on my bus.

so on the bus ride home, as you can imagine, they were not being the civilised at all. and when it was time for me to get off, i heard
"hey ching chong!! yo ching chong!"
i knew they were talking to me cos i was the only chinese and come to think of it, the only female, on the bus. i didn't look back i didn't respond. then they started to break out in song! going
"chhiiiing chooooong choooonng chooong chiiing chiing.."
i was soo mad and a terrified thank goodness my bus stop was next.

that's my first bus ride in the states, day to and fro the mall. i never want to take the public transport by myself EVER! or at least until i really really need to buy something for myself desparately.

looking forward to spring break next week!!