Seriously, the pace in which the time is ticking right now is unbelievable. It seems like every time I look at the clock, another hour has passed. My flight leaves in less than 24 hours. Oh crap. Oh crap. Oh crap.
Yesterday was no doubt the best day of my entire trip. My alarm woke me up at 3 AM after around 2 hours of sleep. I was heading to the San Francisco International airport to meet my arch nemesis, the airplanes. I hate them and I hate flying. Ugh. But the trip I was going to make was worth the hours of the non-stop butterfly feeling in my stomach because I was going to meet an old friend! It was about time, I think it's been around 5 years since we last saw each other.
The flight was horrible. The plane left half an hour late and the amount of turbulence we had was unbearable. The entire plane was flailing around like there was no tomorrow. Luckily I was so tired that I managed to fall asleep and miss most of it.
So when I arrived in Phoenix, I still had a 2 hour shuttle ride ahead of me to get to Flagstaff. It literally took you from a warm 65 degree weather into the freezing snow in a matter of minutes. I've never seen that happen, Finland is usually completely covered. First there were cacti and dead grass and BOOM snow and mountains. Weird. Arizona is weird.
Like any normal teenagers, Jackie and I spent our time shopping at Target for stuff just for the fact that it was on sale. Go black Friday. We also enjoyed some Big Band Theory, a bunch of youtube videos and Carl's Jr. Thanksgiving Dinner before it was my time to leave back to the airport. We saw each other for a good 15 hours. That's what I paid 700 dollars for. Jackie, I hope you know that my wallet hates you for this. But it was completely worth it and I would do it again a thousand times. Since we stayed up all night talking about anything and everything, trying to catch up for years of lost conversations, I didn't get any chance to sleep. And by the time the shuttle came to pick me up at 5AM, I was already cracking open an energy drink to keep we awake. So while I'm typing this, my brain is suffering from this almost-48-hour non-sleep Thanksgiving. But I got a Hogwarts T-shirt. Worth it!
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| We're here to save the day and we look f-a-b-u-l-o-u-s! |
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| Mountains! Definitely not in San Francisco anymore.. |
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| The red sign at the right corner is Target's main doors. The Black Friday lines before the shop opened were longer than any bar line I've ever seen. |
I've cleaned my room, packed my bags and just came back from my very last shopping spree. Not just because I've run out of time, but I now have $7 left. Altogether, I've spent over $2000 on clothes, make-up, presents and just living. At the end of my almost-3-month-trip, I neither gained nor lost money. So basically I worked and got paid in things. I'm not complaining. There's definitely no shopping for me to do in Finland now... hopefully.
I still have so many mixed feelings about this whole thing. I know my plane is leaving soon, but I just can't bring myself to accept the fact that I'm leaving. I want to go home but at the same time I don't, you know? It's a weird feeling.
But now it's my time to retreat into my natural habitat and try to get some sleep to compensate for the past two days. In the morning, I'm going to go eat lunch with my host family for the last time and then they will drop me off at the airport. We meet again, airplane.
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