耐性有限

這天的行程是搬家跟拜訪Monte Albán。

Our agenda today was moving to the youth hostal in downtown Oaxaca and visiting Monte Albán.

第二天早上我們挺早就醒了，事實上Dustin根本一夜沒睡。起床後終於有精神洗澡，發現hostal的水沒有網路上遊客說得那麼小就放心了。

We woke up pretty early the next morning. In fact, Dustin didn't sleep at all. I finally gather myself and took a shower and felt relieved that the water wasn't trickling, as described by other travelers who had stayed here before.

最後一個學期了，相處了兩年的室友Dustin說春假一起去旅行吧，從南加州、亞利桑那州、一路向德州的國家公園road trip，討論要買哪種睡袋才夠保暖，到真要暖和的話不如飛到墨西哥吧，到申請墨西哥簽證好像很麻煩（畢竟Monterey實在太小了，最近的墨西哥領事館也要跑到一個多小時外的San Jose）、我勢必得蹺課一週（我春假只有一個禮拜但我們覺得要去就該去兩個禮拜）及旅費將激增的難題，到最後想想花個800美金上下玩墨西哥好像也很不錯，就在連墨西哥簽證都還沒申請好之前就買了來回機票（而且買機票又是另一個故事了，由於Dustin想太多搞得我們自己佔了好機票的空缺，被迫買轉機重重的爛機票…不過好處是我們原定10天的假期也就這樣陰錯陽差變成了14天長假）。

It's the last semester. Dustin suggested we spend the spring break together. At first we were thinking about going on a road trip from southern CA to Arizona all the way to Texas, visiting lots of national parks and state parks on the way, and discussing what type of sleeping bags we should get to keep us warm at night. Then someone told Dustin that it's gonna be freezing at night in the states that we planned to visit. If we really want to be warm, we might as well go to Mexico. But then as a Taiwanese student holding an F-1 visa in the US, I needed to apply for a Mexico visa, which is a pain in the ass (because Monterey is too small and doesn't have a Mexican Consulate; the closest one is more than an hour away by car, in San Jose). Also, I had to skip a week of class after spring break since MIIS only had one-week spring break, and I didn't want to fly all the way to Mexico with just one-week stay. And the expense might increase dramatically compared to travelling in the states. I wanted to give up. One day Dustin got drunk and tried to persuade me going to Mexico with him (since he didn't want to go there alone and claimed to want to see Mexico through my eyes), and I thought spending around US$800 to visit Mexico wasn't a bad idea (I spent around that much to visit China and Hong Kong 3 years ago), so we bought round-trip tickets even before I applied for my Mexico visa. Purchasing flight tickets was another story. Dustin was thinking too much and worried too much, which put us in the predicament of having to give up the flights of better itinerary and get the ones with two connections and late arrival in Oaxaca, for we took up our own spots by trying to purchase the tickets first on priceline.com and then on Mexicana airline website. But it turned out to be a good misfortune because it prolonged our original 10-day trip to 14-day long vacation.  :)

今年的年來得特別晚，學校二月就開學，所以當然不可能留在台灣過年，我也就忘了這件大事。

過年前幾天Dustin邀請我去San Jose跟他家一起過年，想想看越南人怎麼過農曆年(越南人相當仇視曾想統治他們的中國)似乎蠻有趣的，所以就說好。

轉眼工作已經要邁入第三年，也從有稿就接的菜鳥變成不喜歡節目內容就不想接稿的龜毛譯者…(但我也是為了保持翻譯水準及效率才這麼資巴的就包涵一下吧)

近來接了很多喜歡或至少是曾經著迷的片子:

she is cheap

轉眼寒假就過去了，其實是學期都開始三個禮拜了…