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Monday, May 7, 2007 @ 5:32 PM
1st official blog from US.
Oh my goodness!! Finally we are connected to the world. Sorry for taking so long. life's been hell for me for the week. For me at least. Zy been enjoying herself. Although i drag her down most of the time. Here goes my story:
In San Frans:
you guys already knew we reached TW airport. then we reached SF (san frans). we had a hard time looking for the airport shuttle. we know it exist but coulnt find it. so after a long search and dragging our luggage ard, we found it. we booked the service for 3 hrs. our guide is from hongkong. so we communicate in chinese. his chinese is better anyways. haha! he was a nice guy. lbrought us to a lot of places we didnt know. guess we didnt do enuff research. weather's pretty cold out there. but my clothes are good enuff.. for now.. so we had fun. then its a night spent at SF airport. couldnt slp tho. cos its daytime for us. at dawn, its time for another flight. This is where my suffering begin...
Salk Lake City:
its a 2 hr flight there. my throat start to hurt. u know those type it hurts when u swallaow your saliva. so i started drinking a lot of water, have no appetite for any food. didnt eat much. its a short stop there. only for about 3 hours. only went around looking ard at the airport. i was still quite alive then.. then its flight to bozeman.
Bozeman:
Weather's cold. throat become much worse now. cos it hurts, drinking water is also a pain. when we reach the airport, there's no taxi around. we could only wait. after bout hlf hr or so, we were brought to the backpacker's hostel. after putting our bags down, we had to apply for our social security card. its a long walk. draining my energy. after we got that done, the 5 of us decided to go to a nearby WALMART. only- its not nearby. cos i didnt really know my way back, i just tagged along. i already started to feel giddy and dying. its a damn long walk. everyting is so spacious it takes a long time to walk from 2 shop to another. the sun is scorching hot. really felt like dying. but i know i need to get some medication. so hopefully they have a pharmacy there. after like a half hr walk. we finally reached there. i quickly went to the pharmacy to ask wat they have formy throat and fever. they introduced me to their version of PANADOL-TYLENOL(or smth like tt). Hu dunno! i also have liao... but i;m desperate. buy lo. eat 2 pills. tot they would give me smth better. damn. Zy started walking bout the market. i felt too weak liao. found a bench and sat down. dozed off every now and then. sleeping in a supermarket! can you imagine! trying to keep myself awake. i didnt want others to think : "this girl so poor thing, sleep in a supermarket. aiyo..." after we bought our breakfast, its a lonf way back to hostel. grabbed a pizza along the way. the walk back was torturous too.
that nite i cant sleep at all. we forgot to buy water in the market and didnt know if tap water is drinkable. there's no one we could ask at tt time too. mayb cos i didnt drink enuff, worsen my condition. with only like 1+ bottle of water, had to survive the nite. i keep waking up every hour or so. tossing and turning, eating panadol. goodness. worst nite ever. so in the end, didnt get any sleep. tts 2 days without sleep already. the next day become worse.
Yellowstone:
early in the morn, a bus from bozeman come to pick us up. i was still sick. weather is damn cold.wore a lot of layers and still cold. the bus came and we got up the bus. worse, i got a seat right at the back. as u know, the back part of the bus is shaky and uncomfortable. the whole seat was vibrating very hard all the way. didnt dare to lean back comfortably. cos its making me nauseous. so i had to sit up for the whole 1.5 hours. everybody was asleep in the bus. i had to fight back my motion sickness and cant slp. i tried to slp but when i close my eyes, i feel even more sick and wanna throw up. so i rather not. after a long ride, we reach yellowstone entrance. i was DYING!! ZY looked v worried all along. we had to queue to sign in and everytthing. its a long q. so couldnt go to toilet to throw up. tahan tahan... i cant remain standing for very long. sat down most of the time unless they call my name. Finally, everything's done. Go toilet! make myself throw up. Felt better. weather outside is very cold. we get our uniform and took a bus for lunch in MAMMOTH (part of YNP-Yellowstone National Park). The place is very open. wind every where. no where to hide. had our lunch. i didnt really eat cos no appetite. and the food sucks. i want porridge! i know they had a clinic there. die die also wanna go there. anyways, we still have a bit of time. its a long and cold walk to the clinic and i tot the clinic was my saviour. but haiz...
went to the clinic, waited for the DR. luckily he;s still there. he nearly went for lunch. after he checked me and did a test on me for some bacteria, he said i;m fine. just told me i;m too tired. i need to rest and drink lots of fluid. (ok i know that already). then he send me off. i asked 'so you are not giving me any medication?' the dr say 'oh you don;t need any. you can just get those from the shelves.' ARGH!!! cannot see ppl dying liao! dun wanna give medicine!! at least gimme smth to feel better la!! NEVER LO THE STUPID GUY! wah after that feel so devastated man. and the visit cos me USD33+. goodness!!! bo pian. go back.
they put me on a job in OLD FAITHFUL. another hour drive from MAMMOTH. the same bus again. but i chose a seat right in front. didnt help. threw up on the bus. yikes! they assigned us which dorm we should stay in. and the dorm its actually just next door to where they assign us (office). the driver see wrongly and tot we stay at the other side. got up the bus again and send all other people to their dorm before send us. that would be another 1 hour or so. making me feel worse. i;m feeling horrible horrible horrible. and it snowed... i have totally no strength, had to pull my big luggage up the dorm and stupid snow is in my face!damn cold la! worse still to come.
at nite, the darn dorm got no heater! when we asked the co-ordinator, he said ' its not on, if you need more blankets let me know' from what he said seems like he's the one who doesnt want to on the heater. need to get some rest. so put down my stuff and ready to go slp.
before that, called my parents. goodness.. their voice sounds so good. the best thing that ever happen to me within those few horrible days. couldnt call them since BOZEMAN cos there's no pay phone around. i told them i was sick and darn dr didnt give medication. luckily my dad told me yah mayb tts the case. just keep drinking water. think a few more days will be ok. ask me to eat more panadol. talked to my mum too. think she about to cry liao. haha. i hear also very sad. cos they nv hear from me for 2 days or so and i couldnt speak properly cos of my throat. but after listening to them, i felt much better. they are better doctors than the darn dr. so i took lots of water and went to sleep. of course, its nt a peaceful sleep. eat panadol every 3 hours and kept drinking water. drink too much water, what happens...? go toilet lo... so.. go toilet, drink panadol, cough cough cough, practically kept me busy for the whole nite. next day, training starts...
OLD FAITHFUL 2nd DAY:
Hello Housekeeping! I'm a high class maid! hahahahaha... i felt better already after the nite. it was training day. training was ok.. learned how to make the bed. quite fun. learn howto clean room and wash toilet. haiz. the hotel is not open for the season yet. so basically they are asking us to clean rooms thats not been occupied for sometime. 1st day we just see how they do it. On the 2nd day, we had to make bed and clean 8 rooms. 1st time, stupid stupid. really clean every corner. the next day, getting smarter.. know how to eat snake. which one to clean which one dun need. learn to drag our pace to escape more work to quickly finish our job to get released early. hahaha.. always scheming on what to do.. its the first few days of work so me and ZY pair up to clean rooms.. so when you ppl go to hotels, don't think its very clean. think again. they may have maids like us!!! haha.. we anyhow one. looks clean can liao. wanna know some stuff we do?
we wash toilet liao, clean liao rite? we use first... haha.. do our business- when we need to la. huahaha.. wash hand, wet right? nice clean towel available- wipe using their towel la. huahaha.. hand towel la at least, not bath towel.. tired, wanna chit chat, lie on the bed.. huahaha on the comfortor only tho.. hahhaa... feeling cold, have a runny nose, just pull their tissue! haha... we use gloves to clean toilets and wipe stuff.. and not supposed to wear gloves when we touch the towels. i lazy to take off. v ma fan. dun care la just use for everything if team leader nt around. hahaha.. so.. you all better dont come here to stay.. toilet actually all must wash. but i see the shower place quite clean, just spray water can liao.. hahaha.. so.. we getting pretty smart by the day.. er hm...
NOW:
Old faithful getting warmer. not as cold as when i first reach here. but weather very unpredictable. sometimes i get very cold. our room have heater from the 2nd day onwards. dunno why so sway, sick then no heater. Very very grateful to Zhiying. keeping me alive during my dark days. haha. she look at me so xin ku, i know she nt feeling good also. she helped me whenever i can. thank you thank you. i kept saying 'i;m gonna die here' so many times and ' what am i doin here' so many times... if i didnt come here, i'll be enjoying my time in indo, goring food that i love. here... haiz...
my appetite just started to come back. but goodness, Zy can really eat. she eat a lot leh.. everytime hungry.. everything is nice to her. i say all not nice she say everything nice.. dunno whats wrong with her.. she eat full meal. at least main course, dessert and fruits. wah.. i eat main course didnt even finish.. and she can stand the cold better than me too..
now we are at WEST YELLOWSTONE town. a fren of ours which we just had the chance to work with together today brought us here. so grateful. the drive here was amazing. saw a lot of bison on the way. some crossing the road, so had tostop and let them cross. so fun! haven seen any bears or wolves. oh yah! there's poo everywhere at our place. all shape and sizes... small circular one that comes in large groups, or big isolated ones. luckily cos its cold, they don;t smell. oh well think things are turing up for us. hopefully.
by the way, there no a single chinese like us working here. all americans. we feel so out. haiz. heard gt some sporeans comin in today. but haven met them. dunno will they stay in our dorm or not. quite miserable. they seem not to like asians too. got nothing to say to them.
long essay ah.. tired of reading or not? let's see what i missed... Zy will be uploading the photos..
oh yah. the daylight is long over here. 8.30-9.00pm then the sky will get dark. day break at bout 6+am. so in the morning if we don;t see snow, and not much wind, we know that probably today is a good day. if we see snow or windy, then die liao lo...
think that's about all of my story here. been only 1 week so far felt like been here for a month. haiz. i dun mind going back there now. sobz. oh was telling ZY the other other day, when we go LA, let's check into a hotel. and mess it up for them! haha! revenge revenge! i belong to the hotel room nt the dorm!! haha... oh well... dunno when we gonna have internet again.. so bear with us.. we have very little means of communication.. we;ve settled down. so don;t be too worried about us. Thanks for those who are concerned about us though!
you guys take care too!
~Yor
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