arrived and freezed

Saturday, January 10, 2009
at 9:21:00 AM

hey everyone! im finally in my sister's apartment. i just woke up and it's 9 o'clock in the morning. gotta change the time settings after this.





snow's covered the balcony and froze the pool.


anyways, my sister said to me in japan that there's gonna be thick snow at chicago when i arrived so i had to text her if there was any delay. but there wasnt so, i thought there wasnt any snow. turns out, there was some pretty thick snow. but the plane landed anyway.


i was next to the window so i saw everything. like when we were way up above the clouds then we went lower and everything turned white. and then we went lower but i couldnt really tell the difference cuz it was all white. then there was a slight unexpected bump which meant that we landed. but it was all white and after we landed, it was still white. but the wind was pretty strong and snow was covering the wings in no time.


i brought my violin with me and i asked the stewardess to keep it for me. she was very very nice. :) i wasnt sitting next to my mom - stupid woman at indo gave us separate seats on our second flight. dumbass. since i was all alone with strangers she always helped me :) nice person.



anyways, at customs, we didnt get any of our bags checked just cuz of a little conversation with the really really kind guy behind the desk. trust me this post'll be on conversations i had.


man : is that a machine gun or a violin? *smile
me : it's a violin *grin
man : are you a violinist?
me : no, not really
man : you play the violin?
me : yeah
man : are you any good?
me : im okay. *smile
man : oh.. so u're going to university of wisconsin?
me : no
man : then why are you going to wisconsin?
me : cuz im gonna study at edgewood
man *big smile* okay, good enough for me.


and then we passed. lucky us. :) we went out and started to look for the bus. i went back and forth to ask peole on how to buy tickets for the bus but no one knew. gosh. and there was no one on the information desk. but the speaker and everyone i asked told me repeatedly to ask the information desk. then what i did was, everytime there was a bus with the name "Coach USA" on it, i ran to the front and asked the driver where it was going. apparently bcuz of the snow, everyone was late and behind schedule.


it was really freezing outside, everytime the doors opened the wind blew in and i was already freezed out. but since i ran outside every now and then, i kinda gotten used to it for a bit. i wore my jacket and then a coat. it was pretty warm. but my legs werent. by the time i ran outside like three times, they were already quite wet :( made my toes freeze.

my mom brought some dollars for us and we wanted to buy mcdonalds at the airport. it was right infront of the exit door so, we couldnt really avoid it. but the woman was pretty annoyed or she annoyed me cuz everytime someone came close to her she'd say this " hello, can i help you?" in her annoyed indian accent. it turned out that my mom didnt have any small cash with her cuz the money changers in indo didnt have anything else besides $100 bills so, she had to bring all her small bills, but they werent really enough for the bus fare so, we had to buy something. when i went to mcdonalds, i was holding a hundred and the woman immediately said " sorry, no change for hundred."


immediately went back to my mom. gosh, she didnt even smile. did she evn like her job. urgghh! annoyed me. so i went to the place nect to mcd which was pretty empty. i bought a pretzel and the guy was pretty nice to give me some change. while he heated the pretzel, we had this talk.

guy : where are you from?
me : indonesia.
guy : japan?
me : no, indonesia


gosh, do i look luke a japanese. it's enough to get that on the plane and in japan but here in chicago too. no, i dont look like a frikkin japanese!

then after waiting for 3 hours, i found the right bus but the driver said he wanted to load up first. so we had to be back out there in 20 minutes. but since i didnt want to be left behind, my mom and i took all our stuff and went out. teap we did. and it was freezing so we waited in a little plastic space like a bus stop. it was open so it was still pretty freezing. after around 5 minutes, my mom couldnt take it so i told her to go in the airport while i wait out here for the stuff.

i was using a coat so i was warm enough but my legs were pretty cold. especially my toes, plus my shoes are wet so.. yeah it kinda felt like a stone. so i sat down - the seat was cold too, everything was - then i took my shoes off, and i covered my toes with my hands. worked out pretty well, it was warm enough for my toese to move around but it turned cold again in no time so i had to put my shoes back on and then warm my hand inside my pocket and then repeat it again.


the driver was in the bus loading up and when he was done, he went out and asked me.

driver : why didnt you wait inside? i told you, be back out here in 20 minutes.
me : yeah i know but i was scared that i'd missed the bus cuz i've waited for three hours for the bus to come.
driver : dont worry, i wouldnt have left yah.
me : *smile* thank you

then he carried our bags to the luggage thingy. i asked about the tickets and he said "just sit down and relax, dont worry about it" super nice man. i swear he really was.


slept in the bus. it was a three hour journey and when we arrived, we had to wait for my sister in the snow. it was cold, again. and i was standing on snow which made it worse. my mom couldnt take it anymore, so she waited inside the memorial union - that was our stop - and we took turns guarding the bags. she only had a really thick jacket which really couldnt take the cold so, she really couldnt take it.


it was colder than the airport and i was shivering real hard. i swear, the shiver were in pretty large movements. called my sister a few times and when she came, i was still freezing. we waited with this korean guy who also waited together with me for the bus at the airport. poor guy, he was still there when we took off.

my sister's friends are pretty nice, they fetched us and took us back home. :) then they said, if we needed anything, just call them. hehhehe pretty nice people.

hoaaahh! reached my sister's aprtment and damn it was messy. she had lots and lots of shoes and my mom just couldnt really take it and she decided to tidy the rack immediately. she went into my sister's room and the bed was already done. but, the closet was hell. again, she couldnt take it anymore so she tidied things up but it was still messy. it was late and she was tired so she let it go. she's doing the kitchen now. been doing that for an hour~



living room~



our bed~



closet~ after my mom tidied.



mom didnt really have the energy to tidy this part~



i got my sister's desktop but the keyboard's covered so i gotta get used to it first. mind me, if there's any typo.


we were hungry, so i made food, believe it or not. it was my first time so, they had to bear with it. my sister hasnt done the groceries so there wasnt much in the fridge. some meat, mushroom, brocolli, mixed veggie, one susage and some other stuff. so i made some brocolli with garlic. and then i mixed meat, onion, garlic, mushroom, susage into one adding soy sauce, something like royco, kecap manis, teriyaki and then mixed it all together. of course i put the things like meat ang garlic first so the meat can be done first. it turned out pretty good and my mom even praised me =D im not that bad a cooker after all!


im going to walmart at 12, then maybe the movies, then maybe to macy's and then maybe do some groceries.
as summer feels.
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