Layover in Taipei
Trip Start
Jul 01, 2008
1
7
Trip End
Ongoing
Taipei,
Taiwan
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Even now it has not truly sunk in. After 12 hours of flight, I am in Taipei, which is in Taiwan, waiting for my flight to Jakarta. My flight departed around 1:30 am this morning. I spent the whole weekend packing. I was not sure what to bring with me. In the end I took my big backpack for my clothes and jacket, my camera bag with my equipments and laptop, and another daypack for all my chargers and books. My brother and sister and Jon took me to the airport. I spent the drive to the airport making farewell calls. I am glad that my mom didn't go because it would make it so much harder for me. She is the only person that I worry about when I am away and seeing her crying will make it harder for me to cross the security checkpoint. Before leaving, she told me not to forget about her and I thought how silly for her to say that. She is the most influential person in my life and without her I am nothing. I held back my tears and wave her goodbye. I can't remember the last time I cried. She also wanted me to visit my father's grave. After all these years she still loves him. If you ask me how I am feeling right now, sad or excited is not one of them. I am still trying to make sense of it all. I hope that I am still capable of feeling my own emotions, though sometimes I doubt it. Sometimes you build a wall to protect yourself and in the end you wonder how it gotten to tall and think and impregnable that you've trapped yourself within. I guess this is a battle I am still fighting.
It's a five-hour flight from Taipei to Jakarta. I have not any reading or research to the places that I wanted to travel. I hope I am able to stay awake. It's 6 am here and 3 pm back home. My cousin will pick me up in Jakarta. I hope the hot and humid weather and the feeling unfamiliarity will be a wake up call, I am not in Kansas anymore.
Comments
andri's travels, should be the name of your book
Ok So I had to register for this damn thing...but I guess it's worth it...cuz I really wanted to post a comment! haha! The entries are freakin' beautiful! You should compile these entries and turn them into a book! I seriously could not stop reading! I was at work reading them and when it got to the part about your dad...I literally had tears in my eyes! I'm glad you are out their traveling the world! Can't wait to read some more!
Stef's a dork
I'm a dork...it's Stef by the way...you would have read my post and been like who the hell is stinkylovesbust? haha!
cool
well, chinese is always interset to disscuss, but i never been there...such a shame thing of me..