30/03/2024
SLS 3
Columbia SC
The noise surrounding me waked me up. The airplane is about to land and the passengers are preparing for get out of this noisy flying little box. By the time we landed in CAE Columbia airport it’s already dark. We got out of the plane and passed security checks to find our luggage. Even though the airport is small only two floors we still have difficulty to find our baggage. We walked around on first floor 5 minutes. That five minutes is enough to walk 2 rounds in airport. That small. And we noticed there escalator to go down stairs we just stepped in it. There we go luggage claim area just by the end of escalator and only our luggage still there. We waited for someone to pick us up. After over a hour waiting with empty stomach we heard one lady shouting our names . SC Columbia is full with surprises. SC Columbia is the best place I ever lived. But at that time first arrived to Columbia and night time so everything is different. No street lights, no tall buildings, everything we see through the car window are dark and trees. By the time we get to welcome home almost midnight. The lady gave us two cold food from refrigerator that she bought from Chinese restaurant hours ago. No time to say anything just warming up eat. We didn’t sleep that night. Not only that night we didn’t sleep at night for a couple weeks because of the country we came from and USA are 12 hours difference time zone so we still adjusting sleeping time. We live in that welcome home for a week and something forced us to move out. The toilet clogged up without any warning. The bath place is full with sewage water and the whole house smells . We can’t still there anymore so we got to move to hostels that we got to share a room with other people already there. The most surprising thing about the hostel is red color strip or red dot all over the wall. We learned about the red dot on the wall by very first night. Bed bugs infested the hostel is I can’t even describe it. And German roaches. To reduce bed bugs in our bed we got to wash every day and stay away from the walls. Anyway we got to live there for about a year.
To be continued in SLS 4