More Activity From Me

My last few days have been quite full of activity but I have been having so much fun. This is my last weekend here before I'm off to Indiana, so it's wonderful that it's so exciting.


Friday
This was my last day of work. I start work at 10 am, so as usual, I woke up at 8.30, left the house at 9.15, reached Meyer to check my mail at 9.30 and then got over to work by 10. The night before had been my night of star gazing and as we had been out, I missed a few hours of sleep. Friday morning, I reached work, cheerfully bidding all my fellow workers good morning, as always. I went over to the punch in clock to punch in but when I looked at the clock it said it was 11? What?!? I checked my watch to clarify that. Yes, it pointed to 11 am too. YIKES! I think at this point my face flushed red and I was horrified. Then I realized what happened. I was an hour late. I had been reading my watch wrong because I assumed I was doing everything as usual. I really was an hour late for work. Then, it was just hilarious and I burst out laughing. Later, when I told my supervisor, he just laughed and said, "So, you always come on time but on your last day you make a grand entrance huh?" It was rather funny...

Well, that was my morning. I worked as usual and my brother paid me a surprise visit, which was most welcomed. And then for lunch, we had a special steak lunch. I felt so special. After some pictures, it was time to leave. So, this was the end. I really miss them all so much...more than I imagined I would, especially since I was only there for a month. But it was really a good learning experiance and all of that has changed my perspective on things so much.


Saturday
Saturday morning was sleepy. We had stayed up late Friday night hanging out and stuff. For dinner, we had gone over to another Malaysian's house on campus and he had cooked up an Indian Malaysian meal. It was soooo good and really tasted like food from home. Bless his soul.

Anyway, after finally waking up, my brother, another friend and I took the CalTrain into downtown San Francisco. From there, we walked to Fisherman's Wharf. The purpose of this whole escapade was not only to see SF, because I had already done that two years ago, instead, it was to get me some clam chowder.

So we walked from the CalTrain station to Fisherman's Wharf...which is practically on the other side of the city. No one really walks that distance. But it was good cuz we got to go through China Town, Little Italy and then to see Lombard. Often billed as the "crookedest street," San Francisco's Lombard Street is, in fact, neither the crookedest nor the steepest street in the city, let alone the world. Oddly, that fact doesn't deter the hordes of tourists who come every year to see this famous street, built with eight switchbacks on a 40-degree slope. It's quite a fascinating sight though. Well, my whole day was basically spent walking around SF.


Sunday
We went to church as usual. It was The River this time. I like this church quite a bit and it has a very interesting service style. Instead of having worship first, it's at the end. The service begins with the sermon, the communion is in the middle and the worship is at the end, followed by announcements. It's different but I think it's an interesting order and I quite like it.

We got home and becuase it was such a beautiful day, about ten of us decided to go out and play. We went to a nearby park and played tennis, volleyball, ultimate, soccer and football. We played a few other random games such as: getting the frisbee out of the tree. This went on the whole afternoon and evening and the weather was just so pleasant. Warm in the sun and cool in the shade with a constant light, cool breeze blowing.

It was about 5 pm when we decided to hit the Wall. The Wall is the rock climbing place on campus and so we climbed rocks for another two hours. We were beat by the time we were done with that. Imagine how well I slept that night. It was awesome...