on Wednesday Nov. 23, I left with Samay and Sister Min ha (I'm not sure if this is the right spelling) to Maryland (where I would be dropped off). The journey didn't have a good start in a sense that we didn't leave on the right time, but nonetheless, we arrived at our first destination one hour early. On the way we passed by an accident (earlier we didn't it was an accident and we started getting worried to be stuck during "rush hour" and we only had a hour and a half to reach New Carrollton).
I boarded the train and my sense of direction have been jumbled up. The train went on a different direction that I thought it would go. It turned out that it did, rather than coming from the west through Lancaster, it went north-eastern through Delaware. All I remember is when the conductor announced that we'll be in Philly in 15 minutes, I had my hat on and scarf around my neck, my gloves also and I looked outside, hoping to catch a glimpse of the Philly Skyline, (I asked where is Liberty One and Liberty two?). This was the longest 15 minutes ever! It was just awesome to walk out 30th Station and catch a Septa Bus to my house (before doing this, I walked towards City Hall and and behind the Convention Center just to see). I took bus 38, which took the route that passed the Philly Library, and Art Musuem. It was just awesome to see these familiar sites.
My holiday break was tres cool!
On Sunday, Nov. 27, I headed back to Greensburg. I caught the 11:45 train, it was super late. The train was delayed until 1;15 p.m. The sad thing is I stood there not doing anything (finally at 1 I started reading a book). In spite of this delay, Amtrak employee were very apologetic for this uncharacteristic behavior. When I got on the train I found a sit and settled down with my headphones. Over the PA system, they made numerous apologies. They explained the reason of their delay (needed to remove a dysfunctional train car) and they were very upbeat.
I arrived in Greensburg at 8 p.m. and the campus police drove me and six other students back to our dorms.
It wasn't a bad trip.
the previous dilema...
Posted by Michael Diezmos at November 28, 2005 1:36 PM