I have returned to the cleanliness and privacy of my home! Technology! Air conditioning! Wrin! Spacious rooms! High-speed wireless internet! Boring fruit! Well, okay I’m not excited about the boring fruit part.
The first thing I thought when we got back was, “Oh my God. There’s no motorcycles on the road!” Actually that was probably the second thing I thought. The first was “Auuuurrrrggghhh.” (Upon waking up from my very short nap). But seeing as that’s not a very interesting thought to write about, I decided to talk about my second thought. Except that I just wrote about the first thought, so the previous sentence was completely useless.
I’ve been reading too much Douglas Adams.
The flight was rather exciting, save the fact that my butt was about to fall off about halfway through the flight. I feel for the people who go on frequent business trips halfway across the world. Though if I were flying business class it wouldn’t be too bad. They get lounge chairs and footrests. But beside that, I was kept occupied the entire time. I watched four in-flight movies! Vantage Point, 21, An Empress and the Warriors, and Divergence. The last two are Asian films, haha. They were all pretty good movies, and I recommend all of them. Especially Vantage Point. That one was pretty trippy.
There was also some incident where they made an announcement asking for a medical doctor. Not sure what happened, but when we landed, some quarantine officers came on board to check it out. Probably to make sure we didn’t get infected or something, haha. And then when we went through customs, they sent us to a secondary check because some funky thing shows up on the screen whenever I return to the US. All because some idiot stole my passport in Canada several years ago. If I ever find him, I’m going to give him a piece of my mind. A very angry piece. Because this is going to happen every single time I return to the country. After that, we lost a suitcase. But I suppose that’s bound to happen when you check in 8 bags. (What? We brought a lot of food there and back!)
Anyway, my inbox is full of email, and our mailbox is full of junk mail. Though I did receive some interesting mail. Like Microsoft Office Visio 2007! And something telling me to register to vote! And my AP scores! Except I already knew my scores because my college posted them online a few weeks ago. But it’s fun to act like I’m excited all over again. It adds some sparkles to life, you know? Anyway, I don’t think I’ve ever actually talked about my scores, so here we go: English Lit/Comp - 4; Calculus AB - 5; Music Theory - 4 (Aural subscore - 5, Nonaural subscore - 4).
When I first saw the calculus score, I thought, “WHAT THE HELL?!” Because really, I thought I had totally screwed up that exam. That was the one where I ran out of time on the last question of the calculator section, and therefore had to finish it during the noncalculator section, which resulted in me not being able to get a value for an answer that I needed to use for the next problem because I couldn’t use a calculator. So I put “x = the answer to the previous quesion”, and used that for my calculations.
Apparently, they bought it. Either that or they were very amused and gave me points for craftiness. But seeing as they have a very strict point system, I doubt it’s that.
Well, back to normal life. We brought back a ton of food, though. Like lotus tea!
But it’s nice to be back on Commodore Wrin with our home network instead of some random internet cafe computer or my mom’s annoying Dell laptop that has only 2GB of RAM with crappy unsecure networks. A 5-minute YouTube video took about 15 minutes to load over there! It was dreadful.
