Last day and checking out of TWC

The last day and checking out of TWC came... It was a rush rush rush day... For a start, it was hard to wake up early to say goodbye to my fellow Taiwan friends but I figured, friends are important and I do not know when will I see them again. I pulled myself of my bed and saw Mickey sleeping. I paused and contemplated whether to wake him up or not. I figured out that he is too tired from a late night of saying goodbye to many friends such as Jason Courtey from my class, and decided not to wake him up. However, I saw his blanket half way down to his waist so I decided to cover him well with his blanket. Unfortunately, I woke him up instead and he decided to go down with me.

I went down and I saw Peng Yau, Juanita, Maggie and Jacky. We had a goodbye words for about 30 minutes till the Super Shuttle arrived. The problem then was that Michelle Chiang was not there yet and everyone started to ask where she is and made calls. With no response, Jacky decided to go up and get her.

Fortunately, she arrived just on time for the shuttle and I had to quickly say goodbye to Michelle while at the mean time they were  struggling to stuff all their huge baggage up the shuttle (which the driver was not very happy about and charged them more for it).  Just in such brief moments, I said goodbye to my Taiwan friends and saw the shuttle drifting away which made my heart sink as I thought to myself "When will I see them again?"....

With a little heavy heart I went up to my apartment with Mickey and we started to do our final packing. We rushed to clear up the room but something unexpected, at least to me, happened.

Mickey packing his luggage

Mickey struggled with his luggage. With that I decided to pause clearing the room and help my brother pack luggage. I was surprisingly not pissed and objectively thought solutions to sort out his luggage - Reorganized his packing and stuff things into bottles. The only thing that I had in my mind is that I need to use this situation to teach my brother not to be last minute in the future, To cut things short, we had to rush clearing the room and was kind of late for the checking for the RA. What happened then was that I was late to call Wai Leong and he came with the Taxi later as well.

Mega bus in Washington DC

You see, we had to rush to the Mega Bus station to take our 930am bus and we were only taking the cab at 920. Even though the bus stop was near, we still did not manage to make it on time. Ie we missed our bus!

We ended up having to wait for the next bus. I saw Jung Song, a very nice South Korean guy, I got to know from TWC and remembered that he was taking the next bus as 10am. Unfortunately, Leong and I were also unable to go up the next bus as it was too full and we ended up having to take the 1130am bus. Basically, my plans with Leong were gone as we wanted to go NY earlier that day and have fun.

The journey was kind of boring as I could not use the power plug for my laptop and had to plan with Leong what to do in NY by consulting him. There was nothing much going on in the bus, but after 4 hours on the bus I saw many many MANY MANY buildings in one huge piece of land, I am in NY, the city that never sleeps. Exciting 4 days was about to begin.