More Numbers

10:38 AM Wednesday: Time and day here
10:38 PM Tuesday: Time and day there

____Monday afternoon in numbers____

2: friends I met

4: approximate distance in miles into town where we needed to go

1.75: US dollar equivalent of amount it would have cost to take a taxi

12: approximate minutes to get to where we needed to go in a taxi

15: minutes if we had the slowest taxi in the country (and there aren''t many slow ones)

100: percent of the time that students here perfer taking a bus over taking a taxi

15: minutes we spend looking at the bus board determining how to get where we needed to go by bus

1: calls to the bus/transportation dispatch place to find out which busses we should take

38 & 79: the two bus numbers that got us close to where we needed to go

3/4: approximate distance in miles that we had to walk after getting off the bus to get to where we were going

75: minutes it took to get to where we were going

$0.75: dollare equivalent of whet it costs all three of us to ride the two buses

2: hours we spent in town

1: miles we walked to what we thought would be the correct bus stop to begin trip home

25: minutes we waited for the 79 bus to come

0.5: miles we walked to a different bus stop

50: number of bus that we would take in order to meet up with...

336: bus that would bring us back to campus

15: minutes we waited for 50 bus

7:00: time 60 bus stop running

7:20: time when we realized that we missed 50 bus

97, 001, 41: series of buses that we then decided to take

10,000: taxis that passed us during this time and could have taken us home quickly

3/4: miles we walked after getting off the 97 only to realize that it didn't match up with the 001 bus where they thought it would

15: minutes spent waiting on a 336 bus at the new stop

0.1: miles we traveled on the 336 bus before it died in a busy intersection.

5: minuutes the driver spend looking at the engine (you can access it from inside the bus) before asking everyone to get off and push. One of my friends said that he only meant for the boys to get off and push

2: number of boys on the bus

3: times the driver repeated his request before people got off and started to push the bus (I didn't but one of my friends did.) The driver was able to jump start the bus.

135: minutes to get back to campus by bus

$1.75: dollar equivalent of what we saved by taking the bus instead of a taxi

3: extra hours it took for us to travel by bus instead of taxi

87: times I almost told my friends that their idea about taking bus was stupid but I refrained becasue they have this whold saving face concept.


____Other numbers_____

3: square footage of the bottom of our shower

5'9'': approximate height of shower head

2: times I have shaved because it is impossible to do anything other than stand perfectly upright in the shower and besides I can claim to be culturally relavent

3: times I will end up having done laundry

6: hours it takes laundry to dry on an overcast day.

2: hours to dry if it is sunny and there is room on the outside line

5: days until we come home

Have a good rest of the week. I will see you soon.