Somewhere along the way, promised daily posts, the usual weekly posts, and the occasional fortnightly posts have now turned into monthly posts. Albert offers his apologies. But now, the frozen streams are starting to thaw(hopefully the same goes for his creative juices) heralding the coming of spring, which it seems, is an eternity late. Even then She takes her own sweet time, slowly, gradually melting the snow away
3 months later
well sure, when you look at it like that it doesn't seem quite so long. But really, Albert has had enough of snow. Sure, living in a tropical country, you wouldn't mind looking out your window to this
but braving the -40 c cold
is a whole different aspect of yours(and Albert's) dream of snow. The conclusion he has reached after going through what officially is one of America's coldest and worst winter: Its no more than ice. No love lost there between him and snow, and good riddance to winter, and HELLO SPRING! Well since Albert owes you around 15 blog posts that should be up by now, he will instead give you a pictorial of his experiences so far(hey, a picture is worth a thousand words), besides, theres no way he's going to sit through 15 posts worth of writing. First of, David's place, where Albert lives:
it looks small from the outside, but its actually quite spacious on the inside, with a basement that has a mini kitchen/workshop, laundry room, bedroom, and a entertainment room. The 1st floor is the usual kitchen, living room, dining room, Albert's room with an adjoining bathroom:
excuse the mess. Then the upstairs has another bathroom with a bathtub, David's room, Gigih's room, and the computer room where there's hidden stairs leading up to the attic room which is another room in itself. Looking at the house, nobody would think it contains 5 rooms and 4 floors. Then there is Starkweather High,where Albert "socialized" with his fellow seniors
He will leave Gigih for the official introduction to Starkweather High. Everyone, this is Gigih:
With half the "vacation" gone, and spending more than 30 hours on the road driving
(there really isn't any public transport here) its fair to say that he's been here, there, and everywhere Highway 20 can take them to. Here's a recap of everything he has done so far:
Going to a casino for the first time
Going to a sleepover(1st timer)
Cheering the school basketball team at regional competitions
Giving a presentation of Malaysia in a college in front of lecturers and students
Watched one of the best American hockey teams play
Went skiing
the orchestra
Hanging out in a farm
Visiting world famous hunter John Beckstrand's home
who was invited for dinner with 2 different American presidents(he rejected, TWICE), apparently, he was too busy.
going to the rodeo
going ice fishing
and just yesterday, the museum
With the temperatures regularly at 10c, and slowly climbing, he can finally go outside with just a T shirt and shorts, which goes to show you how far he's come since he stepped off the flight that landed in North Dakota with 7 layers of clothing on. Plus now that winter is over, its gone from 10 hour's a daylight to 14 hours of daylight(which means that Americans turn their clocks one hour forward, its called Daylight Saving Time). Its an American thing, don't ask why. Spring also means sowing season, which means its time to whip out those huge machinery that have been sitting in the barn and start working on the land. Its almost as if everywhere nature is finally waking up, thousands of geese are migrating to the pond in his backyard, the streams you never knew existed is flowing by the highway, draining into the numerous bodies of water in the area. There's also ducks, eagles, prairie dogs, deer, rabbits and other animals that are starting to appear. Totally different from the iceland that it was for the past 3 months. Forget winter, Spring is THE season.
