The Journey to Halifax

Ri, Shashi n TicTac came over on my last night. I had them working in the kitchen Lol. Well except Ri cuz he wouldn't help! hmph. But I had them make juice and help me with apple tarts, which actually came out okay even though I was all over the place. I am so disorganized in the kitchen it's unbelievable; something always seems to go wrong.

They left at about one, so it was pretty much pointless for me to go to bed since I had to be at the airport in 3 hours, and it was an hour's drive.. As soon as I got to my room, everything hit me... and all the tears came streaming down my face and I couldn't stop them.. I ended up calling Kat's house at 2 in the morning.. I was so happy someone answered.. and it was the brother I knew, so that was a plus. He woke her up and she made me feel so much better. Talking to TicTac made me cry just as much as it helped but I didn't want to say goodbye to him.. But he was exhausted and I needed to get ready..


I think I dozed off along the way. When I got to the airport I was cold, tired and hungry. I had my breakfast there but then I began to cry again.. sigh* this is turning into such a routine.. I lost my appetite after that.


The flight to Puerto Rico was alright though, and I had a window seat! Yesss.

The Coast of Puerto Rico

 The people I spoke to were all nice. I was so lost when I got off the plane but it turns out I knew someone on that flight, so she helped me. My bags were so heavy! One weighed 40 and the other 48 lbs. My scrawny arms... my hands were so red and swollen after I dragged them to where they needed to be.. After a while of being lost, I was told there was a Subway so I decided to look for it. I searched EVERYWHERE and BaCk but i couldn't find it. Go figure.. So i asked a security guard and he pointed the path out better for me.. I had to cross over to another terminal, so I had a bit of walking to do.



I met a guy named Jose.! or Jorje, i can't remember which.. He helped me order. He spoke for me lol. He works there and he's really nice and he's quite the looker too Lol. To me anyway. Things are so much cheaper there! There was a special: $5 for a 6'' fo your choice, and a cookie.. and $6 for a 6'' and a 21oz drink.. and it only cost $1.50 more to get a footlong! :| . WOW! So I got that... and extra bacon. Bad Idea ! It was salty ! She put those yellow things in there, dk what they're called, but they were a bit sour so i picked them out. The extra bacon costed $1.35. So in total, my footlong with extra bacon and a 21oz drink came up to only $8.75 ! Converted to EC it's about $22, close to the price back home but i had a drink n extra meet as well. Plus this was at an airport so everything's more expensive.

*Five dollar Foot Long*

'J' was so out of it he kept giving change to the wrong people, even to one of the workers. He said he was hungry and tired. Had breakfast at 4 and his break's at 8 but he doesn't eat then because he's not hungry at that time. Now he has to wait till his next break at 2. Poor kid. Wonder how old he was though.. Never asked. But for someone who was starving and exhausted he sure was Pleasant! That's a lot more than you can expect from SOME people back home..


I listened to the workers there speak Spanish. Even though I studied it for 5 years throughout highschool, it sounds so foreigh... but beautiful and interesting. Most of the people here are bilingual. They really need to teach other languages back home at an earlier age. It would make life a lot easier.. We should be able to choose which we want to learn as well. It'll make our society more colourful =].


They had a ton of food outlets there.. The had the popular ones, like dominoes and subway.. but there was no KFC though... strange.. I can't remember anything else lol probably cuz that was the first place I saw them. There was a sushi place.. The guy had on the outfit n all. I dk what it's called lol. But i was too scared to try it.

On my second flight, this lady asked me to switch seats with her so I ended up with a Winnndoooooooow !! yay!!!! Although I wasn't TOO fond of the kid who I ended up next to.


I slept on that flight... then slept on the airport. so damn tired.. So I didn't get a chance to explore the airport. Just curled up into a ball and rested on the chair after I got fed up of trying to get in touch with the SMU rep.. The pay phone was a lot cheaper than using my cell. WE have to pay for Voicemail :| ! All in all I spent $80 worth of credit on calls which mounted up to maybe 10 minutes ! Ridiculous? Yes ! -_-'


Here are pictures of my last view of New York..

THe Setting SUn of NYC

That plane took forever to take off ! The strip was long and winding, and there were a lot of planes on there. I have to admit though, that it had the best scenery =] . Might just be because of all the night lights but I liked it.

The flight to Hali was short, so that was good. The city though? FREEZING!!! LIke DAMN!!! Had to keep my hoodie on. This is the only decent picture that I could get..

And My room? HOT!!! Ridiculous right? At least it was only that way for the first night.. It's freezing now.. and I seem to be the only one feeling this way.. Guess it's really gonna take me long to adjust to this.. sigh* I look forward to reaching that destination.. not the journey.. The journey's going to be terribly chilly..


But I'm doing alright so far, learning to take care of myself.. It'll be tough but I'll get by.


It's all the fun of trying something *Neu* right? =p