In Ann Arbor

I’m blogging from my hotel in Ann Arbor, MI.

I’ve been traveling and taking lots of pictures for the past week. I met up with my sister (haven’t seen for for too long) and cousins, and had a lot of fun visiting Alcatraz with CD, and six flags Vallejo with Nita’s friends. Nothing more I can asked for from a vacation. The craziest was last Sunday when we had to travel 8 hours in a Greyhound bus from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The bus was full, the restroom was disgusting and the floor was sticky from spilled soda. The was barely any leg room what with my camera bag placed between my legs. But hey, that’s what you get with budget travel.

We arrived in LA at 4pm, waited for my long lost friend Diandra for an hour, had an awesome dinner, and then Diandra have us a lift to the airport. We flew that very night and arrived in Michigan the next morning.

Meeting up with Diandra was surreal. She looked really great (comparing from her tomboy-ish look 3 years ago), and she drove a CLK despite telling me that she’s broke and rive around a broken Honda. But yes, meeting her for the first time in 2 years was really great. It made we realize that hey, we’re adults now! Grow up! Although we spent most of dinner teasing each other (and not much of anything else) I know that there was so much to catch up on but time was just not in our favor. Hope I can meet her in Indonesia this time.

That aside, Ann Arbor has been treating me well. The bus service is great, people are hospitable and just as approachable as the Seattlites, the campus beautiful, and the computer labs large and bright. I’ll be taking a campus tour tomorrow, I’m very excited about that. I don’t know anyone here, but getting around and finding the hangout spots have been easy. For the past days I’ve been putting addresses into my google myMaps, most of them are prospective housing for myself.

I’ve got junks to sell in Seattle, a deadline for department application in UW (that I don’t have the heart to do anymore), and I’ve a house to find. I’m in a dilemma to choose from 2 places and honestly as of now I’m just not sure. I have decisions to make.