My aunt rests today. She gives me the Muni Pass to let me take a free bus trip.

I visit the online website (http://www.sfmta.com/cms/home/sfmta.php) to check some information. I want to go to the USF and test the travel time. In the website, you can type your start point and end point to make the trip plan on a map. It’s easy to use if you know the  name of the location where you live and go.

OK. Let’s do it.

Start:
Mission St & Highland Ave, San Francisco

End:
University of San Francisco, San Francisco

After setting up the S&E points, there are some plans for you to choose. I choose a straight path showing on the map.

Simply to say , I should take the line 24 then transfer line 5.

Trip 1 – Transit Trip Itinerary

Walk to Mission St & Cortland Ave, San Francisco - (7 min walk)

Muni – 24 – towards Jackson St & Webster St, S… – Fare $ 2.00
10:02pm – Board, E Corner of Cortland Ave & Mission St (next 10:22pm)
10:20pm – Off Board, NE Corner of Divisadero St & Mcallister St (18 min ride)

Muni – 5 – towards Cabrillo/La Playa/Ocean Bea… – Fare   Schedule
10:29pm – Board, NE Corner of Mcallister St & Divisadero St (next 10:49pm)
10:33pm – Off Board, NW Corner of Fulton St & Clayton St (4 min ride)

Walk to University of San Francisco, San Francisco - (2 min walk)

I feel a little nervous at the beginning, and mark the every point which the bus pass through. Before I go to the transfer point, I ask the passenger adjacent when I should go down the bus. The man tells me the point warmly and politely.He gets down before I get down,and says good luck to me. It’s very kind of him.

Going along the Castro St, within 19th St & 18 St till the Marker St, I see the rainbow flags again. Oh, It’s the gay zone I saw last time.

When I arrive the USF, it takes about 40 minutes.

Many people dressing the black gowns walk in the campus. It seems like a Graduation Day.

I plan to go to a store to buy a soft blanket for my grandma. Surely I check the route already. The trip is successful. When I take the blanket to my grandma, she is so happy. The blanket is so soft and warm to let her hands keeping warm.

It’s the first time for me to travelling alone. I did it!

PS. When I ride home, a very fat black women comes and sits nearby me. The women dresses two white shirts. She has very huge busts which look like basketballs sagging to the stomach. I thought they are the belly fat at first. She feels too hot to take off half shirt showing the corpulent  arms the same size as my thighs! It’s so horrible that I feel sick and turn around so that I can’t see that one. But after a while, I smell foul odour! I thought I would spit out sitting there for 1 minute. So I change to the chair at the other side by the window gasping.

Today little uncle take me to open an account in CITIBANK. Accurately, there are two accounts founded.

In the States, one person who want an bank account should have two accounts. One is Checking account, the other is Saving account. The Checking is used for the consumption. It’s most frequently used account, but the money in this account is no interest. The Saving account is used for the deposits, and money in this account can not be used directly.

There is one promotion. If one client has $500 in his checking account in monthly amount on average for three months, the bank will award $100 to the person. In that case, I put $700 into the checking, and $1000 to the saving.

Since I have neither  the SSN nor the credit points, I could just get one temporary debit card. The formal debit card will deliver to me by one week, and the checkbook two weeks.

That’s what I do in the bank.

When me ride the J car go though the Church & Market street, there are rainbow flags hanging by windows. I ask my little uncle, he says smiling that there is the homoerotism area. At night, many “couples” appear here and there.

oops~~~

Today we go for shopping. Grandma writes a list of things to buy.

First little uncle drives us to the Foodsco to buy  pork ribs.

Then we go to Costco to buy rice, milk, eggs and so on.  In particular, I want to introduce the “Roast Chicken”. It weighs 4or5 lbs, smells very appetizing, and just cost 5 dollars. In one word, it’s very cost-effective.

Finally we go to the New World Seafood Market to buy some vegetable.

In order to get a bank account, I and my big uncle went to the SSO (Social Security Offices) today for a SSN (Social Security Number).

But I did not get through the application. Because three reasons:

1. I went there too early to let my information passed from the USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services).It would take 10 days after the time when I entered the U.S. So, the suitable time for coming will be Dec. 21st.

2. I did not bring my I-20 form.

3. I did not have a identification from the school. That could be the reason that I need a SSN.

We went to pick up grandmother then. In case we were in the China Town, to do some shopping was a good idea. We bought about 10 pounds of Japanese Yam. The time approaching noon, we went to a chinese restaurant for lunch. We ordered two “spare ribs with rice”, “white radish cake” and “stuffed peppers”.

After lunch, we sent grandmother home. Used the period of validity of the ticket, we went to the one dollar shop. I bought a little plastic box, a electrical extension cord with 3 outlet plug, a mug with Christmas tree printed, a bag of biscuits.

It’s too difficult to write the diary in English.

Today, I leave my homeland-China.

Say goodbye to China.

It’s my Old Ending.

Today, I come to the United States.

Say hello to the United States.

It’s my New Beginning.

青藏之旅因故没有成行
又往后延一年
希望明年可以完成这个小心愿
希望不再是一个人的旅行

9月18日才回广州
总不能宅着那么多天等发霉啊
必须得出去溜达溜达
要不会憋坏的
东边的省份都去过了
往西边找找吧
山西陕西都有点近
想找个千里之外但又不到青藏的
只剩下甘肃和宁夏
甘肃较大景点较多几天时间估计玩不全
最终选定小小的宁夏
马上订票查攻略找路书
打算嗖嗖去嗖嗖回好腾出几天时间陪伶儿

直飞银川（飞机起飞前故障延误两小时，还好不是飞行中出故障-_-）
坐大巴到市区民航大厦
再打车到吉祥·西夏青年旅舍
好远咧
打了27块多
那个旅舍在宁夏大学附近
正好可以抽空去校园里溜达溜达
鉴赏一下西北的学生MM们
具体行程就不说了大概记录一下去过的地方

1、贺兰山岩画

搬了一块两三斤的贺兰石回来
紫色的质地貌似还不错
找个地方做几副印章

2、西夏王陵

传说中的“东方金字塔”
其实就是几个土包包一点雄伟的感觉都没有
但在博物馆里
让我知道了西夏国的历史
原来一袋香蕉–成吉思汗是病死在攻打西夏的战场上的
如果丫没那么体弱
现在的亚欧版图还真说不好是怎么样的呢
天妒英才啊

3、沙坡头沙漠风景区

玩的地方项目不少
骑骆驼、越野摩托、沙漠冲浪、飞索渡黄河
花钱就好玩
不花钱光踩沙子就不怎么好玩了

4、银川市区商业街

一个省会城市
商业街做成像通州的新华大街
也不容易了

5、认识了两个兰州来的小MM
其中一个还和我结伴去了西夏王陵

其他比较知名的景点还有什么镇北堡西北影视城
但对这些纯人工仿造的景观实在不感兴趣
看看没什么好玩的
就打飞机回京了