她们的故事

Dear Friends,

 

Hello! As I write this, I am currently 33,000 feet above the air and moving at a speed of 568 miles per hour. To be more clear: I’m on a plane (also for all my celsius warriors out there, it’s ~10k meters and 914 kph). 

 

This is my first time ever flying alone and for some reason, I thought that the absolute best way to start of my saga of flying solo would be with a 24+ hour journey to Sydney, Australia. 

 

I’m going there to visit a friend that used to live here in the U.S. —we’ll call her flora for the sake of this post— but moved away in 9th grade. I remember we all joked about the time she was moving to Australia because it was around the time of the massive wildfires over there. She got her revenge though because if you know anything about the time of those fires, you’ll know that COVID-19 was to follow; and the United States handled that much worse than Australia. What goes around comes around I guess. My bad, guys!

 

Back to the journey itself: I’m taking 2 planes there. I took one from the east coast to California that was ~6 hours, had a layover there for 2.5 hours, and am currently on a 14.5 hour plane from Cali to Sydney. “Ermm but Bibi, that’s only 23 hour-“ ok nerd look at you doing math LMFAOO but that’s because we drove like an hour and a half to the airport from my house because the flights from there were cheaper than the ones closer to us.

 

I’ve mainly passed the time by listening to the same 3 songs on repeat: ZOOM by BadVillain, and Official + Miami by ICHILLIN (which GWSN Lena has credits on by the way). I decided I needed to break that up though so now I have Tyler the Creator’s recent “Sticky” plus all of =LOVE’s songs on shuffle (I’ll have to make a post about =LOVE / ikorabu later because I lovee them, especially Noguchi Iori). I also spent the 1st trip finishing up the Dandadan episodes I haven’t watched yet and every episode really just solidifies my love of the show. I kind of just didn’t watch any anime from 9th grade till this year because nothing was really pushed my way, but I went to the anime club at my college (ok I KNOW please leave me alone) because I had no Friday plans, they happened to play the 1st Dandadan episode, and despite that wack ass alien scene, I really enjoyed it. So I picked up that, Dungeon Meshi, Vampire in the Garden, and Madoka Magica (I read the manga first for some reason IDK). They all have very different vibes, styles, and lengths which I enjoy. Oh and circling back to how else I’m passing the time: sleeping. 

 

I also originally was trying to continue writing a fic that would be the part 2 for a joke, “crack” piece that I made but I can’t take this seriously like this is cringe I’m sorry y’all. I’m also supposed to write an actual serious piece for a friend and I’m procrastinating because umm no thanks I’m good. You can write it instead.

 

Where I live it would currently be 10:30 AM. Where I’m going, it’s 2:30 AM the next day. I want to try and sleep for another maybe 2-3 hours before landing but I really don’t know how realistic that is because I am not a good sleeper. Luckily, the friend I’m visiting is very chill and if I get there and just fall asleep, she will not care. Flora is a lot like me in the sense that she’s 100% neurodivergent and we both know that about each other. One time, we were on a FaceTime call and started thinking back to times in middle school where we were like “lowkey we were getting made fun of and bullied and just couldn’t tell”. She also has very intense interests like me but hers are cooler; things like plants/gardening, guitar, etc. Man, why’d I get the kpop interest instead of like, I don’t know, neuroscience; and not even on POPULAR groups because what do you mean your favorite group is Girls in the “last release was in early 2021” Park? 

 

I didn’t really have a purpose or takeaway for this post, this really is just a “here’s whats happening” update and not a “heres whats happened and how it connects to a bigger idea” post so hope you’re all chill with that. Don’t worry though because I have plenty of ideas for other posts I can make that will be like that. Alright, catch you in around 6 to 7 hours when this plane lands and I can actually post this to the website.

 

XOXO,

Bibi

P.S. it is now 6:46 PM in Sydney as I'm posting this and I finished writing it at 2:44 AM AEDT (at least according to my Notes app)