Friday, June 10, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
Boston Airport
A prayer. I pray, that none of you, shall ever have the horrible experience of going on a connecting flight, through the Boston Airport, and if you do ever experience the horrible experience I pray that your connection is in the same terminal, for if it isn't, God rest your soul. Amen.
To clarify, the Boston Airport is nonsensical, it is also dumb. Let's say that you do have a connecting flight in another terminal you will have to exit your terminal, that's fine though, that's standard. From there you will head to the other terminal, where you will go through a security checkpoint. Again. Well this isn't a grave misfortune you say? This is just a minor nuiscance? Well imagine again that you were unaware of this and you buy a drink at their aiport and then you go through a checkpoint where they take that same drink. The drink you purchased in their main terminal. Where is the logic in that? I'll tell you. It isn't there. Unless of course, they sell bottles of napalm at the ticket counter.
To clarify, the Boston Airport is nonsensical, it is also dumb. Let's say that you do have a connecting flight in another terminal you will have to exit your terminal, that's fine though, that's standard. From there you will head to the other terminal, where you will go through a security checkpoint. Again. Well this isn't a grave misfortune you say? This is just a minor nuiscance? Well imagine again that you were unaware of this and you buy a drink at their aiport and then you go through a checkpoint where they take that same drink. The drink you purchased in their main terminal. Where is the logic in that? I'll tell you. It isn't there. Unless of course, they sell bottles of napalm at the ticket counter.
Picture of guy/blimp
This is a cool thing I found when we were at the shops near Chinatown, that sold furniture and chandeliers, after saying 'hola,' I turned around and saw this, but I'm not sure if anyone else got to....
Airports
So throughout the beginning of our trip we arrived and departed from 4 different airports. The first one was the Buffalo airport; it was alright, y'know, considering it was in Buffalo. Then we went to JFK through the rain (it was scary); I don't remember much about the JFK airport, all those memories are blurred together with Buffalo. Then, we flew 5-6 hours across the United States of America (Jet Blue) into the San Francisco airport. That airport was much happier and lively. Also, the San Francisco Airport had super special stations for re-filling our water bottles. Once we left the airport after a week of jam-packed fun in the wonderous city of San Francisco, we flew into the night sky, changing the city into forever a precious memory in the deep caverns of our minds. So yeah, once we had our layover in the Boston airport I determined that this airport is the worst airport that I have ever been to in my entire life. But im trying to be short so i wont get into too much detail. but just remember, Boston airports are horrible, i threw up in the Buffalo airport because of its rediculousness.... not even in a garbage can, i threw up on the poorly carpetted floor NEXT to the garbage can. when i came home I: 1) brushed my teeth 2) eat a lunch 3)brushed my teeth again 4) took a shower 5) went to bed, and slept for 22 hours.
Fun, wow!
One of the most interesting parts of this immersion was observing the various stereotypes of San Francisco and analyzing them. While walking in the city I got to see these stereotypes first hand. We saw countless stereotypes from drug use to open homosexuality and everything in between. The homeless population was not too large, but there were quite a few of them on the corners and walking around with shopping carts. What really stuck out to me was one homeless man we saw on our way to the airport on our flight home. We saw a homeless man walking in between cars at a red light but he was not asking for money. He was holding up a homemade sign that said smile with a smiley face. This was inspirational and was cool to see a man with so little to send a little message to people in the cars. His message could be interpreted multiple ways, but the way i interpreted it was him telling the people in the cars to smile because they are truly blessed for what they have. But he also might have just enjoyed people smiling.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
experience.
I had a fantastic time in San Francisco. It was a really great experience. I started out on this trip with very little connections with the people on this trip because I normally don't interact with them at school (I do talk to them once in a while). But, as the trip continued I had connections with almost everyone and I learned a lot about people that gave me a different perspective then I had before. All together I became better at navigating and trying to be a leader ! Best immersion ever =) .
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Then and Now... My Thoughts (1)
Since I had already been to San Francisco a few years back, with my parents, it was interesting to experience the city through "different eyes": not only in respect to being older now, but also in regard to the "flavor" of the trip, so-to-speak. The last time I went to San Francisco my parents and I stayed at a Kimpton Hotel. To give you a sense of that hotel, they had cocktail hour from 5 to 6 in the lobby, during which time anyone (of age) staying there could stop in and have free wine or beer. Needless to say, I never partook in that, of course... well maybe I had a sip or two. This time around, it was really cool to be staying at a hostel, a complete opposite living arrangement from that at the Kimpton. I will say though that I expected the hostel to be much worse than it was... My parents have told me stories about really bad experiences they've had at hostels. I enjoyed having to use the public showers and other facilities because it helped me to branch out from the way I'm used to traveling (although i did go on a 9 day river-rafting trip down the Grand Canyon several years ago and we all had to share one bucket as a toilet...). The hostel was very accommodating and I was completely and pleasantly surprised when I found out they provided free breakfast to their occupants! I'm about to go eat dinner so I'm going to post this now... but I'm going to continue this topic in another blog entry later. Thanks for reading!! (:
park school san fran 2011 wooooooooooooooooooot!
Immersion was so much fun. Its difficult to say what my favorite neighborhoods or overall days were but i definitely have some favorite things that we did. Hohyun ms aja and I wen running along the bay and it was insanely beautiful! We could see the golden gate! On the first day, chillin' at the park in front of the hostle was really fun. I also really loved fisherman's wharf. It was realy pretty by the water and the shops were so cool. The sf m.o.m.a. housed some beautiful works of art, to which mr fedirko was able to provide additional informantion. City lights bookstore had a wide selection of books. I had never heard of any of them because there were so many different books there, not just ones you would commonly hear about. Coit tower had a realy cool view of the city, just from the base of it (even though we couldnt go inside). The city of San francisco is absolutely amazing. I think most of us who visited wish we could live there.
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Saturday, April 9, 2011
Hot Patato.... Hot Patato.... Please shoot the hot patato.
I think the weather has gotten to me. I must surely be succumbing to some illness being brought on by the asforementioned weather. The only evidence I have of this is that I have spent my entire morning thus far arguing with Mr. Fedirko about Patatoes, mainly whether or not one of the pictures he uploaded to this blog is, or is not a patato. I assure you that it us ub fact a patato. As you have just been told that the image is a patato you can now ignore any of Mr. Fedirko's arguments for the object lacking a certain, patato quality. Any who the weather has been amazing, therefore it will very soon beging to cease this trend and go in the exact oposite direction. In other news we went to Google, I signed a waver so I can't tell you much about it other than when you walk into the building there is a spaceship. NBD. Anyway I am going to go to the bathroom and see what this "shower" thing everyone is telling me about is.
Friday, April 8, 2011
soooo faaarrrrrr
So far this trip has been amazing!! Thanks so much to our chaperones! We've seen GOOGLE MOMA THE WESTFIELD MALL AND EVERY COOL THING EVER IMAGINABLE!!!!! We also saw alcatraz and some great views of the city, like at coit tower. Theres some great street art too. Im so glad i was able to part take on this immersion!!!!!!!
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Thursday, April 7, 2011
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