As with everything in my life, there is NEVER a dull moment, in the states and out. After saying goodbye to my mom and day Friday afternoon, I started my 2 day journey to Malaysia. While still in Charlotte, I received a call from Sarah: my Queens friend and fellow bio major who is also studying in Malaysia this semester. She tells me that the TSA officer won't let her get through security because she doesn't have a Chinese visa to fly to Hong Kong (thank you Jun! at least I had one!). Even after Sarah making it through security, we nearly missed our first flight because we were too busy chatting and missed the whole, "your gate has changed" thing! At least we were right near it and pretty much hopped on the plane right before the doors closed, FEEEEWWWWW! As much as I hate reading I bought a new book to read on the plane (considering it is 25 hours flying time to Malaysia). Sarah asked what I planned on reading so I pulled it out, oops, not the right book. Out came the other book I brought: "Writing in Biology". Sarah looked at me with utter disgust which confused me, my book was about traveling after all? I would have paid money to have a picture of Sarah's face at that moment!!! I looked down and started laughing, and semi-crying: that was not the book I planned on reading, but I did bring it as a reference for my science classes here (sorry Queens bio professors, that is still not my favorite source of pleasure reading). I got out my other book, "How to Travel the World on $50 a Day", which hopefully will give me some info on how to decrease the cost of my illness. After about 2 hours, I read the book and it was TV time! I have recently become obsessed with Breaking Bad! So much so that in the last month I watched sessions 1-4, and the first season twice (thanks Anna Blake). Somehow, I really don't know how, but the plane had the whole 5th session which I had yet to see (Hints, had not yet seen). Seriously, it was my lucky day! Then I watched "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" (which was weird). I guess Sarah liked it so much that she watched it three times haha- delirium can sometimes get the best of you. Then it was on to the next flight, LA to Hong Kong, in which I drugged myself to make it through the 16 hours (which wasn't even bad at all-MELISSA!!!). The flight was quite nice because Sarah and I got a seat-and-a-half each! This made the trip more comfortable than it could have been! First class looked pretty darn nice: people had their own pod-like corners to sleep in. There were several times I looked over and I wasn't sure how Sarah could actually sleep the way she was laying. We also both missed dinner: I was looking forward to having sweet and sour chicken.
The flight from Hong Kong to KL was next and it sure was interesting. We were served brunch and had a choice of two plates- I chose ham and eggs. The mystery meat has already started, the menu on the plane said I was getting ham and eggs but it was definitiey not ham (this reminds me so much of my ham-burger from Costa Rica). Note to everyone, if you go to a restaurant and the menu says ham-burger, the hyphen is not just randomly placed there, it means your meal is not made of the normal beef but something crazy! Then Sarah all of the sudden said, "what is that spraying noise". Then we looked ahead, the flight attendants walked through the aisles, several times I must say, to fumigate the plane (thats what I thought they were doing but who knows). It looked like one of those action movies where the guys in all black, spray crazy gas in the air and kill everybody (jk Mom and Dad, it wasn't that bad). But anyway, the air smelled of disinfectant for a while (if that was even what they sprayed). Once we got off the plane, we stepped foot into Malaysia for the first time (I can already tell its gonna be HOT!!). Sarah and I are the only blonde and blue-eyed people here, at least that we have seen so far. Now we are sitting at a smoothie bar in the KL airport blogging (my first ever!) and waiting for another American student to arrive :) My hand now feels like a claw because I have such poor typing etiquette so I think it is time I go...and dang I use too many parentheses. After all, lets be real, I am a biology NOT english major. But I made it here safely and I am so excited for what the future is going to bring :)
Love,
-Merdy
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