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31/08/2008 make up diary.....LA...Finally I get the mood to sit down and write a diary for LA.
I know I should have finished it a couple weeks before......
First, this is the 1st meal I had in LA
It was very yummy but I finally had it at 9pm after 12 hours for the bus(plus waiting and looking for the hostel),
so I didn't feel well after it because I was so hungry and ate it too fast......haha!
It was a very different trip this time,
besides that I traveled on my own,
I also had a job that I never tried before, different people, different parties, different way of living, getting understand sth. new about life, about study, and I really speaking English all the way.
I felt like that getting this experience was more valueable than checking out the UCLA,
even though I found out this school is really beautiful and super huge.
Except the burning sun, LA is a very nice city.
Specially I like that kind of tall trees on the sides of the road.
Also, I remember when I just got off the coach and looked for the hostel,
several people came over to help me out.
Because I hear some bad things about LA like it was dangrous there and you had to drive to traffic is super bad there,
but I didn't have those problem at all.
May because I lived on the Hollywood blvd, there were many people still walking on the street at 10pm......
It's nice that I can have a car because when I walk on the street myself I could felt that the cars on the road were way more than the people on the street,
but it's totally fine for me to not havin' one since the public transportantion could take you to most of the places you need to go and the fair is not too bad,
the only point was I couldn't keep a ticket for two hrs like in San Francisco and had to buy another one when I changed bus.
Even though LA is nice,
It felt like that I didn't belong to this city because there were so many Mexicans.
I didn't hate that, but the point was I hardly see a Chinese there and all I see is Taiwanese.
Maybe I was used to live in San Francisco where I can see tons of Chinese everyday.
In LA I felt a little bit lonely.
Especially the night in downtown.
It's 9pm only but the people were almost gone.
Although some people helped me,
it scared me a little bit because I took the wrong bus and have to walk on the dark street to find the metro station.
I walked like super fast that night....and when I got to the station, I was like in the heaven......haha!!
It was the situation that night, seldom people on the street, but the light......
So decided to check out the LA Chinatown and feel some Chinese back......
It really surprised me!!!
Look, what do you think here,
If I ddin't been therer, I would absolutely say here is China!!! Shenzhen China!!!
Not only the same things, but the style was 90% the same.
The only thing was here is not so many people.
There were way less people in the LA Chinatown than the one in SF.
But I found somethin' interesting.
See!!! umbrlla!!! so many umbrellas under the sun!!!
Test: how many umbrellas are there in the picture?
Answer:
5! there were 5 in the street.
It's impossible in SF!
I think here is the real chinatown cz it reflected the real face in China!
SF one is only filled with people and kinda special,
but China is not like that....
My best friend in LA is Lea, a 19 years old German girl who joined the work team 5 days after I came.
She didn't feel like 19,
the way she talk, the things she did was like a older age.
She just finished high school and was gonna take a dancing class and move to an apartment here.
She was writing a colum for a Germany newspaper, and just successfully got a scholarship which was about $6000.
She let me think about myself......
We went shop a dress for the garden birthday party held by a director in Hollywood.
After the shopping, we sat outside Starbuck and enjoyed a little music concert in the shopping center
We talked a lot, the my military training, about writing, about clothes, about music, about the future.
Even though she is younger,
she inspired me a lot and is one of the most valuable experience of the trip.
I didn't wanna come back at last even though I was so tired of the job there.
Oh, I almost forget to talk about the job. But it's simple but killed me a lot......clean the room and bathroom.
(Germany girl just freaked out about the job and she move out of the hostel a week after I came back to SF.....haha)
My parents and relatives laughed at me when they heard I did this job!!
They said I should have try it earlier and understand what's really a hard life.......I totally understand now!
But thanks for the military trainning I've been through,
the job just a bigger piece of cake since it's just 4 hrs a day, 6 days a week.
And I get free bed (with air condicitioning later) and some benefit like couple times BBQ party and local tour for free!!!
It's a deal anyway and I planned to go back if no plan in the winter break!! hoho......sb. must say I'm crazy......
but ok.....yes, I am.....
Most of the people in the hostel were from Europe, or Australia....
Fortunately, by chance I just finished couple of UK movies and TV drama before I went there.
So the English was ok for me and I felt my speaking was improved!!!
Not only the English, I got so much which I have to learn but I've never had the opportunity to try before....
So even though I became a poor again after I came back,
I think it's worth it!
Not only me,
so many people were traveling alone in the hostel.
Like the room I lived in the 3rd day,
we found out 4 of us in the same room were traveling alone so we decided to
join the tour at that night.
Sometime you can get different kind of fun when you are alone,
so I will try again!!
Finally I make it up...the diary for LA...
18/08/2008 tmr听日就开学啦！
真喺快！
对LA仍然记忆犹新且念念不忘，
完全无心情去开呢个学......
to be honest...
喺自己无用，
一直唔想去面对暑假噶失败，
我暑假堂英文拿B,
喺B啊！！B啊！！！
当我听到个时真喺好想冲出去比部车撞死吧就，
不过我知我无死噶胆量。
但喺一个念头一直喺我心入面打转--转学过嚟LA！
听讲间Santa Monica College 喺UCLA噶入学率都好高，
学费同City College 一样，
这使我更加想将呢个想法变为现实。
可惜由于金钱压力实在太大，
我没有勇气自己一个人生活，
惟有番嚟接受现实......
唯一可以做噶就喺将回来嘎时间延迟，
所以最后14号先番嚟。
短短噶10日就好似好耐甘，
番到嚟觉得一切都有D陌生，
城市，公车，妈妈，细佬，屋企，朋友，
唔想去面对所有噶一切，
可惜我又一定要重新去适应番所有噶一切一切。
B，面对拒啦...
衰咗就喺衰咗，
唔可以再逃避，
虽然呢次稳到一个将来可以当嚟“避世”噶地方，
但喺残酷噶现实始终要面对。
呢个B证明咗自己真喺玩多咗，
喺时候要比心机读书啦，
又再一次体会到“塞翁失马，焉知非福”呢个道理，
下个学期要小心啦！！！
番嚟之后就喺到忙，
唔喺就懒，
一直都无为呢次旅程嚟个总结，
所以听日一定要完成拒！！
不过我至少都有整好D相啦！！！
朋友们，
开学啦，
wish me luck 啦！！！
3/08/2008 LA第一日......尋晚要兩點先訓著， 除咗好正常甘懷著去旅遊三分的興奮心情之外， 呢次有七分喺惶恐， 因為呢次得我自己一個人去。 睇電視個時仲覺得D人好cool， 其實到自己個時就唔一樣， 呢種要離開親人離開朋友獨自上路噶心情， 真喺唔好受... 本來都唔會驚架， 點知到咗最後一刻先感受到呢個心情， 跟住就喺甘同自己講已經無路可退啦！ ！ 驚死都要去！ ！ ！ 好似就喺甘喺到碎碎念就訓著咗啦... 好準時甘5點鐘就起咗床， 因為知道自己動作慢， 點知呢次好快就整好曬D嘢， 先7點半！ ！ ！ 照出門口， 有早無遲啊嘛... 除咗等得好唔耐煩之外， 呢次坐車都唔喺好辛苦， 訓下醒下，再發下呆， 5點半就到咗HOLLYWOOD啦...... 不過！ ！不過！ ！ 自己竟然買錯票， 到咗都唔比我落車， 死都要送咗我去Los Angeles, 個時先知道原來Hollywood同Los Angeles系唔一樣噶！ 搞到我喺甘係到轉車， 最後7點半先去到間Hostel... 喺轉車呢個過程都有D奇遇， 第一就係呢到好多台灣人， 完全聽唔到白話， 一有中文一听就知喺台灣普通話。 等車個時有個台灣女仔走來同我搭訕， 傾落原來拒喺參加UCLA extended school， 我開頭好有興趣， 不過原來即喺同夏令營差唔多， 不過拒都好nice， 跟住上咗bus之後就分開咗坐啦... 喺bus到就發生做兩件事， 首先就遇到個好好人噶Mexican阿姨， 可能拒見我拿住地圖，個suitcase又企唔穩， 拒就好好人甘幫我用腳夾住個suitcase...... 跟住有個站好多人上車， 因為有個backpack，所以我就懶得坐， 跟住有個男人上車， 問咗我坐唔坐之後拒就坐低咗， 點知另一個Mexican就好大聲甘話拒，LADIES FIRST！ ！ ！ 我超唔好意思， 其實兩個都係好人， 跟住就惟有坐喺旁邊個個位， 其實仲辛苦...... 來到hostel， 呢次呢間環境好好多， 不過要聽日先開始影相， 因為今日有D累， 懶得影， 要早D訓, 但係我張床就好熱， 風扇吹唔到， 床都無一樣， 不過免費， 所以算啦！ ！ 聽日就正式展開LA自己行， GOD BLESS ME ！ ！ ！ |
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