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Sunday, August 15, 2004
Mente
Back from the trip today. Feeling a bit light-headed and jet-laggy (thanks to the red-eye flight). The trip was okay, but I probably wouldn't go again. I have never seen so many trees in one place before. It was like green everywhere for the majority of the trip. The sushi and sashimi in Vancouver was outstanding, but that's probably the only thing I'll carry away from that place besides the nauseating boat ride to Victoria. Columbia Icefield was breath-taking, the Gondola ride was one of a kind, the food at the 5 star hotel didn't match up to my expectations and I've never sat for so many hours on a bus before. All in all, I had a lot of time to enjoy nature and to sleep and to check out...forestry.
Something interesting happened on this tour that I've never experienced on any other asian tours. On the last day of the Van. to Banff tour, when the people I met on the bus were leaving, I felt like: "Guy lan man, I'm gonna miss them. I really wish I talked to them more and shared with them during the long rides." Then it hit me, that I just missed many grand opportunities to reach them and to get to know them more. Meal times, free times, washroom times and bus times. All of which I could've spent much wiser...but I didn't. I felt I've only connected with the people on a superficial level. [Michael (a buddhist who works at Osaga came to travel with his family), very caring and honest father, easy to talk to and extremely respectful. Matthew and Felicia, the newlywed couple from Singapore (enjoys taking risks, the dude loves food...what more can I say?). Edmund and Mary, shy couple with big hearts. Jung and Julia, both students from Taiwan. Don't speak much English but were fantastic people to be around with. Alice (an optometry student from UW) came with her family, well mannered and knowledgeable in many respects...]
Before I went on the trip, I questioned why I was even to go on it. Now that I'm back from the trip, I realized why I was supposed to be on it. However, I did not know what I was suppose to do until it was too late to do what I wanted to know ahead of time to do. Regrets, remorse and retardedness are some things I'm feeling. Fortunately I left my contact with some of them, I hope to see the rest of them in the neart future.
"I give You my apathy
I'm giving You all of me"