Friday, October 17, 2008

how do you like my new bentley!?


This is my island car that we drive around.. as my rooomate calls it.. its our Bentley!!
We both aren't used to this type of car... our AC works SOMETIMES... our radio/cd works but because there are so many ditches and crazy driving, the cd skips like crazy ( which is normal ). The seats are clean with clothed but ughh it can get dirty... the side doors sometimes are about to come off when we try to close the door...
The left front window is a tricky one.. most of the time it goes up and down easily.. but when it gets stuck.. 1. either keep clicking on the window button nonstop until it decides to close 2. both the driver and passenger to keep clicking the window's buttons to pull the window up. or 3. try to close the door again to make the window work. It's funny how this window has turned into a CAR GAME.. "Find a way to pull the window up and GO"
lastly going up the hills, this car no matter how hard you press on the gas pedal.. it moves but you gotta be patient with it.. it slowly trots up.. but it makes it.. don't worry! haha
I honestly don't even know what kind of car it is.. there's like no sign of it. All i see if japanese writing = japanese car. For being the cheapest rental car $60 bucks a person a month amongst 5 girls, it's a good deal though.. i mean all we need to do with it, is to drive back and forth to school and needs and sometimes the others take it out to go out. We can save the luxuries until we come back to America... I miss my car back home...the nice leather..the ipod jack..the nice radio system.. sunroof..automatic doors that work and just shiny clean paint on the car!!!


This is always parked in front of my school... I wish I had this Audi to drive around.. so nicee and so american and i love the simple license plate that comes with it.. haha

Saturday, October 11, 2008

One with nature



so it's been raining like non-stop for like a week..at times it rains so hard that I feel like its going to break through my roof. I can't even hear myself or even my own music blasted on out loud. This rain has gotten me to wake up every hour when i sleep.. This is why i am always sleepy... my sleep always disrupted.. ughh i feel so restless! Driving in this rain is also dangerous.. it floods easily.. so driving to school and back, I have to slow down because the rain puddles like go all the way almost halway up my car! haha i feel like i'm sinking...

Also, I feel like i am as ONE with nature more often nowadays.. i go to the bathroom and i sit there, I hear the wonderful noise of the rain, the dogs barking, crickets cricketing loud as ever, and in the mornings : roosters.. then i see random ants crawling around like maniacs on my bathroom floor..then one time i had to shower as fast as i could because i saw a mosquito, it died because it bit me before i even knew it on my back!! ughh..

you are probably wondering why on earth i observe this while i am in the bathroom
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Thursday, October 9, 2008

While I walk around the streets of Vieux-Fort



I am usually not anal about people mistaking me for another nationality.. I usually could care less if bums and such say stupid things to you while you walk pass them.. but mann ever since i've lived on this island.. it's actually getting to me! the name callings. the country callings.. etc.. just because they are not used to seeing an asian girl in their country. it is SO NEW to them. I totally understand that this is a 3rd world country and that they have many disadvantages of not being exposed to MANY other cultures around the world and not being educated about it also but it STILL annoys/irritates/pisses me off everytime i face it now. Sometimes I just have the urge to tell them to SHUT THE HELL UP to their faces but we all know that won't be a good sight afterwards.

Story 1: Walking back to school from this baguette shop for breakfast, a bum was sitting around the stairs to a restaurant.. he sees me walking by ( ignoring him of course because why should i talk to him? ) and yells out GO HOME KOREA GO HOME! in a very angry voice! LOL that ticked me off. who the hell is he to tell me to go home? a bum? AND I AM NOT KOREAN ( no offense to my korean friends :D )

Story 2: ( which happened today ) I walk back from the bank with my rooomate.. i get a HEY CHINA comee over hereeee.. then i blanked out on the rest that the guy was talking about.. he was trying to sell something i believe.. but of course i walked away..

Story 3: (this one is decent) some pharmacist while i wait for my medication for my stupid skin problem a month ago, asked me NICELY what i was.. taiwan/china/korea/japan? im like "ohh im vietnamese" then shes like oo only you guys would know the difference huh?! you all look alike to me. i guess that was uhh ok?

Story 4: im in the driver seat waiting for people to finish up at the bank. some local pulls up right next to me at my window.. ( my window was rolled down ) and he tells me. I WILL MARRY YOU CHINA.. YOU WILL SEE I WILL MARRY YOU.. do you have boyfriend? just watch! then he just sits there in his car for awhile and decides to drive off.. -_- wthell.

Of course my rooomate never gets shit like that.. haha she's indian.. i think there's actually a decent population of indians living on this island.... man these people.