My Adventure

It was my first day at the UW. The day before, my host mother had taught me how to go to the UW, and showed me to the bus stop that I have to transfer. This was all by car. However, I missed the bus stop because the view is different from a car and the bus, and I have to take bus #5 and transfer to #44, but I thought I had to get off at 44^th Street. I got off at 44^th Street, but it was a very different location that my host mother showed me. Totally I got lost, so I asked many people the way to the UW. Finally, I could reach the UW Tower. This story continued because I got lost again. That same day I got lost on my way home because I reached the UW Tower by walking, so I didn’t know which bus stop that I had to wait and which bus I had to take. I asked a woman who was waiting at one bus stop, and I showed her my house’s address. She taught me which bus I had to take, but she was wrong between N and NE. I reached the same address as my house, but N and NE are very different. I was lost again, and I asked again. However, nobody knew how to go to my house. Fortunately, I am good at maps, so I used my GPS and I decided to go home by walking. After I walked 2 or 3 hours, I could reach my house.

The day after, I got lost again and again. I missed the bus stop again, and I reached near downtown. I asked the hotel man, who was a very kind and very friendly person. That day I had a placement test at 9 am, but when I got there, it was already 8:30. I thought that I would miss the test, but he called a taxi. I took the taxi to go to the UW. I was able to reach the place to do my test on time and taxi fare was not expensive, so I was really lucky.

This experience taught me that I had better research the way exactly when I go to somewhere that I first to go.