Welcome to Boston

There were about 30 Thai students came the same flight as me. Of course one of those was Another Yui, one of my best friends. (Sorry Yui that I call you Another Yui.) She was the only one I knew. Actually she was the one who told me all about this program. It was good to have her coming at the same flight. Yet, we were going to separated at LA. She was going to RI. And I was going to Boston.

Well before we could get to LA. Of course we would have to stop at Taiwan for a few hours since we were flying with EVA air. (Mind you, but I don’t like this Airline) Do you remember SARS? It was really big problem and in trend at that time. Everyone on the airplane, Taiwan airport was wearing the mask for protection. I did it too. My aunt bought me like a dozen. Well why not…? I wanted to get to Stated safe and sound of course.

We got to LA. quite late at night. And we had to take another flight to Boston. I think A Yui had already gone to another flight to New Port, RI.

Guess what happened!?!? They said there was a bomb in the Air port! Jackpot baby… In all those days before I came they could have set the bomb but why this day the day was at the Air port.

Guess what!? Yeah…. We missed the flight. The police was everywhere. They were closing down the Air port. We couldn’t get from this side to the other. That why we missed the flight. About 20 Thai students were left out side of the Airport, not knowing where to go. Sad ? Scare ? … Well… not exactly …. We were more exciting.

Anyway, after couple hours pass they found out that there was no bomb in the air port. Thank you who ever calls to the polish said that there was bomb in the airport. We missed our flight to Boston.

However, the world is not so cold to us. We finally got flight to Boston just that we would have to transit at ……where??... Well I don’t remember…Anyway, we got to Boston the next morning safe and sound.

Boston

All the way from BKK to Boston. I haven’t made myself a friend yet. I was a little bit lonely. But never mind I was ok.

Let me introduce you A Linda. The woman that was going to take care of us, getting us to the apartment, introduce us a job. But……. I should have known that no one going to take care of you as good as you’re taking care of yourself.

We got to Boston just to found out that the apartment that the agency promised us was not ready for us to move it yet. So this sweet Linda put us into guest house which cost us $30 a night per person and 4 people in one room. (We normally would have to pay about $ 100 / week for apartment and this was out of our budget) Thanks to Linda she was just as sweet as lemon to us. Ok let me tell you a bit more about this sweet Linda, you know what she good at …well no no not just good you know what she best at …talking ….. She did all the talking but none of them that she could do it. No no don’t think I am mean…. I mean what I said… come with me and I shall show you what I saw.

My job in Boston was in a tour company. This was what I picked from Bangkok. I wanted to train in this business. After we put all the things in guest house and all of us head us to that apartment that some Thai student were there. There were already some Thais coming before us. They already got an apartment. It was small with one bed room and one small living room with no furniture. We gathered together telling them that we didn’t have apartment yet and we were staying in the guesthouse.

After the chit chatting I went to my work place with some of Thais that was going to work in the tour company too.

Ok .. my job was to stand in one small booth try to sell the city tour to tourist. We would get $8 / hour + commission.

But where we got there the condition was changed. They won’t pay us the hour. Only if we could sell the tour ticket which we would get like $4 / adult and $3 / child. No this wasn’t fair. We can’t survive with just this little money. The boss sent us on the city tour. But we were more worried more than we could enjoy the sigh seeing tour. When we finished the tour we all desired that we will need to talk to out sweet Linda. This wasn’t what we paid $2000 for.

And that where all the story begins ……………….