So the last trip I did. To sum it up:
Amtrak was excellent!! Love you Texas Eagle (wish you had Wi-Fi though); the attendant was cute (except his hair cut) and was really nice.
Chicago was breathtaking! I felt like a cockroach. The greyhound was a good ride. Our driver was nice enough to stop at a Burger King and allow us to buy food for the long ride to Minnesota :)
The University of Minnesota was beautiful and so was the mall! Lol. My brother and I couldn't get enough of this one store called Marbles: The Brain Store. LOVED IT!! (It was actually the only store we had time to see hahah)
There was a thunderstorm/flooding watch on our last night, so we took a cab to the sleep at the airport just in case it got bad. I've heard people say that riding an airplane feels like riding a roller coaster. I don't agree (well, it's a bias answer partly because I haven't taken a roller coaster in a while) I couldn't feel a thing. My ears did hurt like someone ran a needle through my eardrum to my cochlea! Shit, worse pain ever! Forget menstrual pain; this was pain! Still, I liked our flight. Oh, it was in US Airways by the way. It was one stop at NC then to SA.
Funny thing on our way back home from SA: The whole plan had gone according to plan with minor adjustments, but it was going as planned. We were states away and it went fine, but chaos happened when my sister was on her way to pick us up getting back home. 1.) the taxi driver got confused and sent us to the wrong hotel, and when we finally got there, he charged $49, but I only had $35. He gladly accepted that amount lol. 2.) When my sis got there and we were on our way back home, her car indicated a low air pressure from her tire. She checked, and she had a flat. 3.) Long story short: she kept driving it to a mechanic, horribly fucked up her tire, and then realized that she didn't have the key to her tires; we ended up stealing Wi-Fi from starbucks to find a hotel and the nearest Nissan in SA to spend the night and get back home the following day. Fuckin shit!
So yeah it was a nice adventure, and the bad luck kind of continued the next day when I took my truck out for a drive and got the belt torn and had to go get it fixed. My drunk uncle was in the same situation but at a walmart (literally he was drunk with his van at walmart. How sad yet hilarious is that!). I was glad my car could at least still move so that I could take it to my other uncle the mechanic. We did stop to give him some food and stuff.I'm not that mean. Yeah, it was a crazy week. :D
Still I discovered I might not go to MN. The professors I met were really nice and all, but I wouldn't want to work on a project for 3-5 years, write a 30-35 page research paper, and then not have it published (not to mention the out-of-state tuition). IDK. I really REALLY need to think about this. Good thing is my application for UTHSC clinical lab is in! Yay! I'm only missing UTSA's master one.
good. Now relax, draw a bit, watch Ghibli movies, play snes, and see/give love advice (which idk why the hell she asks me when I've never had a boyfriend haha) to my 35ish year old sister in her courtship with her twins coworker.
*exhale* now do a dragon breathing technique lol.
Amtrak was excellent!! Love you Texas Eagle (wish you had Wi-Fi though); the attendant was cute (except his hair cut) and was really nice.
Chicago was breathtaking! I felt like a cockroach. The greyhound was a good ride. Our driver was nice enough to stop at a Burger King and allow us to buy food for the long ride to Minnesota :)
The University of Minnesota was beautiful and so was the mall! Lol. My brother and I couldn't get enough of this one store called Marbles: The Brain Store. LOVED IT!! (It was actually the only store we had time to see hahah)
There was a thunderstorm/flooding watch on our last night, so we took a cab to the sleep at the airport just in case it got bad. I've heard people say that riding an airplane feels like riding a roller coaster. I don't agree (well, it's a bias answer partly because I haven't taken a roller coaster in a while) I couldn't feel a thing. My ears did hurt like someone ran a needle through my eardrum to my cochlea! Shit, worse pain ever! Forget menstrual pain; this was pain! Still, I liked our flight. Oh, it was in US Airways by the way. It was one stop at NC then to SA.
Funny thing on our way back home from SA: The whole plan had gone according to plan with minor adjustments, but it was going as planned. We were states away and it went fine, but chaos happened when my sister was on her way to pick us up getting back home. 1.) the taxi driver got confused and sent us to the wrong hotel, and when we finally got there, he charged $49, but I only had $35. He gladly accepted that amount lol. 2.) When my sis got there and we were on our way back home, her car indicated a low air pressure from her tire. She checked, and she had a flat. 3.) Long story short: she kept driving it to a mechanic, horribly fucked up her tire, and then realized that she didn't have the key to her tires; we ended up stealing Wi-Fi from starbucks to find a hotel and the nearest Nissan in SA to spend the night and get back home the following day. Fuckin shit!
So yeah it was a nice adventure, and the bad luck kind of continued the next day when I took my truck out for a drive and got the belt torn and had to go get it fixed. My drunk uncle was in the same situation but at a walmart (literally he was drunk with his van at walmart. How sad yet hilarious is that!). I was glad my car could at least still move so that I could take it to my other uncle the mechanic. We did stop to give him some food and stuff.
Still I discovered I might not go to MN. The professors I met were really nice and all, but I wouldn't want to work on a project for 3-5 years, write a 30-35 page research paper, and then not have it published (not to mention the out-of-state tuition). IDK. I really REALLY need to think about this. Good thing is my application for UTHSC clinical lab is in! Yay! I'm only missing UTSA's master one.
good. Now relax, draw a bit, watch Ghibli movies, play snes, and see/give love advice (which idk why the hell she asks me when I've never had a boyfriend haha) to my 35ish year old sister in her courtship with her twins coworker.
*exhale* now do a dragon breathing technique lol.
