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May 10, 2004
The First Disaster
On my way home from school my first day, I realized that I hadn't paid that much attention when my host mother walked me to school! I was too spellbound by the neighborhood to remember that I had to get myself home.
To make a long and embarassing story short, I took a wrong turn and ended up walking 2 or 3 miles in the wrong direction. When I realized I had gone much farther than I walked in the morning, I began to suspect something, though I could not for the life of me remember where I made the mistake. I walked back a bit, but then realizing how far I walked, and that I wouldnt know the right way even when I backtracked (not to mention it was raining), I went into a nearby shop and tried desperately to ask the lady to call the number on my ID card I got from the scool. She was very confused and I couldnt understand what she was saying, but eventually she understood the word "homestay" and became very sweet and sympathetic. She called my host parents, who came in a car to get me and take me (very very emabarassed) home, but not before we drove the route from the train station to home again. I made sure to get it this time.
We spent dinner drawing maps of the area, and then the next day I made sure to watch very carefully as I went to school.
Posted by dminky at May 10, 2004 07:00 PM
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