I usually go to school by bus. First, I ride the line 24 from Cortland to Eddy. Then I transfer to the line 31 from Eddy to Chabot where the gate of USF locates.

This morning, the 24 bus had been late for 10 minutes. When I got on the bus and it just went forward 50 meters, the driver let all the passengers transfer to another 24 bus parking by the way for a long time. That made me another 5 minutes later than usual. More badly, at the next stop, there were 20 little kids getting up the bus, noising like a fowl market.

When I transferred to 31 bus, it dropped its electrical wire so the driver needed to get off the bus to fix the problem.

What I suffered today made me 20 minutes later than usual. What a bad lucky day!

I just wrote about the 31 bus flashing “EMERGENCY” last night. It is unexpected that the same thing happens to the 14 bus which I am ridding.

For attempting another kind of experience, I take the 14 bus home today. It goes along the Mission St from the beginning to the end. When it arrives the bus stop at Mission St & 25th St. Here come up a bunch of hippies boys, wearing some kind of collapse crotch pants, white and black T-shirts, jackets. Although they talk loudly, I can not understand totally with the unfamiliar tone and content. I am sure they are not speaking English, may be Spanish. As they have dusky skin and wavy black hair, they seem like Mexican.

Since they get on, the bus just goes one stop, and stops for a while. Two police come up. Maybe the bus is flashing “EMERGENCY” outside, I think.

It is strange that the two police are wear helmets, which are not the battle helmets but the bicycle helmets. They go straight to the end of the bus where that guys standing. They say something to one person, who shows some certificates to the police. They look at the certificates and keep speaking, meanwhile, the bus starts to go. The other people of the guys look nervous obviously, and get off the bus hastily when the bus stops at the next stop, leaving the person whom is interrogated by the police.

When the bus goes through a few stops, the police take the person get off the bus. I just understand what the police wear bicycle helmets until they go to front of the bus to pick up bicycles.

This is the first time I see police on the bicycle in the United States.

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.