Technology = Incredible
Technology is pretty amazing. I'm not only writing this while gazing out the
window at the Brooks range of Alaska, I'm also logging on to the internet to
post it right now. Traveling at 600 miles per hour, 40,000 feet up, apparently
they said 'why not have wireless, highspeed interenet?'
I had a wonderfully touristy day of 'urban hiking' around New York, seeing
ground zero, Wall St., Battery Park, Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. All
this was interspersed with stopping outside bar and restaurant windows to watch
a little world cup. The US lost to the Czech Republic, no body was happy.
I met up with a few friends from ACC last summer for some Mexican food, going
out to a restaurant as if we hadn't seen each other for a week, not several
months. They're all working in the city for the summer, or some part of the
summer, and I feel like I'm taking it easy, avoiding the working life to back
and 'study' for the summer. I guess that's just a reflection of how much I've
come to love classes this past year, that I consider studying the polar
opposite of working on a scale of enjoyable to less desirable.
Todays' traveling has been great so far, took the bus from Grand Central to JFK
and checked in without a problem. All of the summer CET students that are
taking the group flight are here, which means most of the 80 students in the
Beijing program. I met a few in line and then saw a large group of bright eyed
college kids sitting together at the gate. There wasn't any doubt about who
they were. I did meet 3 other students who are going to Harbin, and things are
looking great.
Now I just need to convince myself that it's 8:20 am and that I've slept for
three hours (instead of thinking its 8:30 pm and I took a long afternoon nap).
Luckily Japan air has a dozen movies as well as Nintendo games for every seat!
I'm going to play so much Tetris and Space Invaders my head will fall off.
1 comment:
wow. internet on airplanes. i am truly amazed.
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