OK I know it's stupid, but I didn't start clearing my room and packing for my 3 month trip to USA until midnight (9 hours before I had to leave), cos I ended up going to a BBQ and jamming on the Gold Coast. Well I managed to finish by 8:15am ... see I could have even started at 12:45am and would have been OK!
On the flight to USA, I sat next to 2 Americans that talked non-stop about relationships & similar bullshit, no kidding I was already sick of Americans while I was still at Brisbane Airport! I thought America would be full of rich white people constantly talking about their really boring lives, luckily I was heaps wrong, the second I got to LA, I realised that America is actually full of Latinos and Mexicans and Blacks, etc, and only the rich white Americans come to Australia. So many hot brunettes everywhere it was awesome! Something I REALLY wasn't expecting is that almost no-one understands what I'm saying and I don't understand most of them cos of different ascents. At one stage I had to type my address into my mobile phone to show the guy cos he couldn't figure out what I was saying! At the LA border I had to go through extra security checks & interviews cos I'm a wog, and they gave me a "Special Registration", which means I have to do it again every so often as well as before I leave USA. It was kinda funny cos the only 2 people on the whole 747 plane (hundreds of people) that were pulled aside was a guy for being to jail and me for being born in Iran.
My flight from LA to Miami was pretty cool but, I sat next to a rediculously hot chic that was heaps cool and turned out to be a famous celebrity, wearing big sunglasses as a disguise :-) When I told her that I didn't recognise her, she was so glad cos she said she hates all the constant attention and how everytime you slip up your all over the media and you can't go anywhere in public without people talking to you. While we were on the flight (for 5 hours), two different people came upto her to start talking and she told them she wanted to be alone. She said she's been doing it for 10 years now but she's really over it but has to keep doing it for another 12 months cos of her contract, and the only friend she has in the world is her sister, all of her "friends" are really just "acquaintances" that only like her because of her job, and she has to fly to random places around USA about once per week and she lives by herself in a mobile campervan and she's really over it. She said she wouldn't tell me what she does until we leave the flight because I probably wouldn't believe her. Since she had allergies and said she never gets a chance to eat and so was eating all my lollies and chocolates, and cos she was constantly saying how ugly she looks now cos she's so tired and doesn't have any make up on, I figured she couldn't be a sports star, she must be either an actor or a model. It turned out the 1st friend I made in America is a famous porn star! She even shown me some of her glamour shots ... much better than your average in-flight entertainment!
When I got to Miami I realised Florida is rediculously hotter than anywhere I've ever been to, even though it was 10pm! I stayed overnight at Miami Beach till my 7:30am flight the next day. Even though everyone kept telling me that Miami is full of snobs I figured I'm only there for the night so I might as well go hard so I went to a pub down the road that had bands playing. I hated it at 1st cos the bartender couldnt understand me properly and so it was a bitch to find out what a normal beer is, I ended up getting a Heineken cos atleast I knew it wasn't Light beer, but it cost $6 USD just for the beer! I thought I was gonna run out of money really quick, and whenever I tried to talk to the local shielas they would either not understand me or laugh at me. Eventually I talked to this black guy who understood me cos he's from England, and he said to ask for the "25 cent beer". I thought he was bullshitting, but it was real, the same place that just charged me $6 when I asked for a normal beer had a ruthless special of 25 cents for a small cup of Budweiser, but you could only buy one at a time. Needless to say I got wasted and it only cost me about $2, and I made friends with the guy cos he was obscessed with the World Cup. I managed to get home at some stage, ready for my flight in a few hours. What I didn't realise is that even though I set my alarm correctly and changed to the local time in USA, Miami is in a different time zone than LA when I did it! I ended up missing my plane cos my phone was using the wrong time zone! I had to wait an extra 4 hours but it wasn't that big of a deal. And so ends my 1st day in America.
