Goodbye America (for now)

22 August 2008; 1758hrs Los Angeles, California (USA)

Actually, I don’t know what the actual time is. I’m very sure that we are out of USA, especially since the flight took off at approximately 1400hrs. That means we’ve been flying for nearly 4 hours now. The time zone would have changed and we would be out of the US airspace.

Wait a minute… I’m out of the US airspace! I’m finally out of America! Goodbye America, I enjoyed my four weeks there. They were fun. I experienced many different things, saw many different sights, met many different people.

Among the most memorable were:
1) Meeting Lisa and Jarek at the workshop
2) Soaking in the thermal springs and Firehole river of Yellowstone National Park
3) Rock climbing at the cliff face behind Mount Rushmore
4) Seeing Mount Rushmore
5) The troubles with my flight with Delta
6) The amazing lack of public transportation in a lot of places in America
7) The expensive taxi rides
8) The discrimination I experienced in some places
9) Staying at hostels in dubious locales (New York, Washington)
10) Seeing Capitol and the ‘grandeur’ of the White House
11) The scary taxi ride in New York with a Muslim devotee
12) Cheated in a taxi ride with a Pakistani driver in New York
13) Being accosted by black teenagers in Hollywood
14) Seeing the Gay and Lesbians Club in Los Angeles across the hostel (It’s amazingly big!)
15) The number of homeless people in America
16) The friendly Auntie on the Greyhound
17) Disneyland and Universal Studios
18) Couch surfing
19) Taking 12 different plane flights in 4 weeks
20) The chance to experience America on my own and having survived

That concludes my trip to America. I’m now heading towards Shanghai, en route to Ningbo for two days before taking another flight back to the Little Red Dot. I’m finally going home! I can’t wait to meet Mummy and Andrew, can’t wait to get to Church (haven’t had the chance to attend any Mass throughout the four weeks, save one), and can’t wait to be back on my comfortable bed. My smell, my mess, My room.