Ayusa 國際愛優生文化交流協會

今天 感覺比昨天還要閒!!??是這樣嗎
今天 我學校日子開始的第二天
嗯嗯 別問我好玩嗎
我不能衡量 好吧 所有的英文對我來說 一點也不好玩
話說去學校也不是玩= =
因為好像也沒有玩的時間
下課五分鐘 連上廁所的時間都幾乎沒有 Continue Reading »

經歷了二十多小時的飛行外加舊金山驚魂記後。兩人抵達了終點站，費城。在到達費城之前，有一趟舊金山國際機場之旅。

我們是在台灣時間的早上五點半抵達，九月六號。但對於舊金山來說這裡已經甦醒，有另一個交換學生-───施正倫(Allen)同行，原本交換學生機構說到 達時會有人來接應。而我也覺得真妙，這樣豈不一舉數得，可以順便來趟舊金山觀光? 滿懷期待下了飛機，就在要過關的時候，問題來了。

「I-20 form please.」海關要求。「What I-20?」老天，要填表格，我怎麼不知道?「There’s a form, I-20,I need that.」「Ah….Hold on a second. Is this one?」「Correct.」我就這樣瞪著空白的表格2秒鐘。

「Sorry, Where can I fill up the form?」「到那邊沒人的櫃檯。」搞了半天海關會說中文………難怪看起來有付中國樣。我只能外表強裝冷靜，拿著表格去填，但心裡真是緊張的 要死。「S….，果然要填，那個老伯還說不用!」我恨恨想到。

飛機上有一個台灣老伯，要回美國， 空服員開始發表格時我就問他要不要填? 他說不用「吧」，我也就姑且信之，豈料一下飛機就是這種狀況。手忙腳亂的和Allen 填完表格，拿過去給海關，老實說，有種把罰寫交給老師的感覺。

「在飛機上怎麼不填呢?」海關小姐沒好氣的問。「有人說不用阿!」對阿! 就是有人說不用，不然我老早就填! 不是嗎? 妳以為我喜歡把自己搞的緊張的要死然後停在海關填那該死的表格阿? 這段話當然是在心理講的。

總算是安全入關，跑去拿我的托運行李，最讓我擔心的就是那輛腳踏車，一輛兩萬塊，不加周邊配件，丟了還得了! 帶腳踏車到美國是有點誇張，不過往後你就會發覺他的好處。搜尋了老半天終於發現了那件醒目的「行李」，原來是因為太特殊了，場務人員早就拿了下來放在一個 角落等候我的領取。

好啦! 行李全部送上轉運機了! 去機場大廳等人吧!

等了快半小時，遲遲不見蹤跡…….

「我們不會被AYUSA放鴿子了吧?」Allen有點擔憂的問，我們也站了將近半小時。「不知道，先找個地方坐，我去看飛機班次。」我跑向班次報表前。

班次螢幕上有一堆飛機的起飛時刻，就是見不到我們的，糟糕，又要問人。「Excuse me, could you tell me where can I get on this plane?」我拿出我的機票。「Oh,you can go to look the screen right there.」「But I can’t find my plane.」「Wait, let me see……Oh, the time to take off is two o’clock, it won’t show right now.」接著講了一堆我聽不太懂的東西。無論如何，因為飛機比較晚飛，要等4個小時，所以現在不會秀在螢幕上。但總不能坐在門口等4個小時吧? 打給AYUSA 的電話也沒通。最後，我倆只能選擇進入舊金山國際機場等4小時。少不了排了隊，外加脫鞋搜身的措施，準備來趟機場觀光。

金山機場有兩件事嚇死人，第一件事這個機場很大，沒什麼大不了，國際機場都很大，但還是不得不驚嘆，第二件是物價，該死的物價，一盤蕎麥麵量也不多竟然賣我13塊美金! 把我當闊佬耍! 這就好比7-11裡的涼麵32元突然賣你400塊一樣。但屈就於現實，我還是買了，民以食為天。荷包裡的百分之ㄧ就這樣沒了…….機場真的沒事做，睡覺看琴譜外加心裡抱怨以外真的是很漫長的過程，後來又花了錢買一包巧克力，價格多少我不敢去記…..

長的4小時過了，飛機終於可以上。不知道是上天可憐還是如何，我坐在最後一排，最後一排一邊三張椅子，我和Allen兩人共享6個座位。代表終於可以好好 睡個覺! 躺下來整個放鬆，在飛機上躺著睡覺，這種機會真是人間少有。就這樣睡了不知道多久，醒來時天都已全黑。「你很大牌喔!」Allen 在我醒來時說。「啥?」「你就這樣躺在那裡睡，很多人經過時都瞄你一眼，你也不怕遇到亂流什麼的…..」「恩…是阿，因為我很累阿。」「好啦，我 也要睡了。」相較之下，Allen的睡法就保守多，旁邊兩個座位不用，直接靠著窗戶，頗有浪費資源之樣，反正不是我，也就隨他去。幾個小時後，我們降落於費城，這趟飛行時間總共5小時。

這次過關相當順利，平安無事。正在想要怎麼和寄宿家庭的Home Father見面時，他很神奇的就在前面。「Hellow, are you Simon?」「Yes, you are Mr.Dick? Nice to meet you.」客套的開場，Dick是個單身漢，現年60，看起來不像60，不過就是60。無論如何，這趟漫長的旅程總算是告一段落了。坐上車，發現令我很驚 訝的事，這台看起來很小的車竟然塞的下我所有的行李! 我的行李如下:35公斤超重型李一個，19公斤腳踏車組一盒，隨身行李三件。如此林林總總，竟然全部都上的了一台小小的轎車，心中暗想除了幸運還是幸運。

駛過了黑夜中的高速公路，燈光在遠邊閃爍，那是費城嗎?我猜，但實在沒那個力氣，只想趕快到新地方好好睡一覺。終於到了幾乎一片漆黑的家門前，開燈看到了 我的房間，「準備過苦行僧的生活吧。」我想，為什麼呢? 這個房間的一切看起來都像是臨時搭建的，右邊一張很矮的床 ，一個少了一個抽屜的櫃子，看起來很舊的雙頭櫃，有天線而且只有3台的電視，還有莫名奇妙的舊椅子，不知道如何形容這種局面，連書桌都沒有。「明天再想吧。」於是乎，費城的第一晚，結束。

It was a very good day that I already met my brother Vini. We took him this morning at Lynchburg Regional airport. You know these days Jackie and I were very worried about Vini. I thought I could ease my mind now because Vini seen pretty fine and I thought that we would have very happy days in the future. By the way, I thought dealing with another countries exchange student was another challenge but very good chance. Maybe I can learn some Portuguese from him. It sounds very good. And personally, I thought he was pretty cute and very different from Taiwanese student. We are too old.

I knew when exchange student arrives their host family, they will be hungry and tired, So I prepared some Peanut butter toast, one can of Spirit soda and one banana. And I am glad that Vini like that. Be friendly to other people was way to win friendship and confidence. I thought I did it at the first moment.

After a long free high way, we finally get our warm home. I help Vini to set has luggage well and Jackie said the same thing to Vini. ‘’There was Antique everywhere, so put down your school bag.’’ I thought she cherish her Antique. Vini send me slippers and a key ring as gift. I give him my name card and a national flag badge as feedback. I love the Key ring he sent me because there was Brazil national flag on it and it shaped like Brazil.

After a short rest time, we went to community center to eat Potluck the big dinner. There are so many people there and they bring many dishes of delicious food. I remember that in Taiwan my grandmother will bring her dishes to the community party. Jackie took as to the Kroger supermarket and bought some good ice cream. I ate some carrot, ham, mashed potato, tomato slice and pasta. They are all very well. While we are having good meal, two women and one man talked to us. Jackie introduces us to them, and they are all very happy to meet us. I thought they are my friends now. I met Jackie’s neighbor who will pick up us while Jackie was not at home.
I thought it was important to meet her.

Then I took many kinds of desert. I took chocolate cake, Cream pie with Strawberry jelly, chips and some ice cream. They are delicious too. I love it.
This was my third meal in the US. I thought I would have more good meal in the future.
American food was so good, no wonder American are almost fat.