#22

Have I mentioned yet that I have a great language teacher? Well, today Maya really came to my rescue...Let me start from when I left my house this morning. I know every morning that I need to catch the number 22 bus so I walked to the bus stop and started looking for my #22. So along came a #22 or what I thought was a #22. Actually it was a #2 not #22. There were two #2 signs beside one another on the front of this bus so it really looked like #22 to me. I hopped on in and found a seat. Very soon I noticed that this bus was going in a very different direction than the school. I thought "hmm...maybe I am just mistaken and I don't remember these landmarks, but I'm sure this is going the right way since it's #22." So I kept sitting on the bus and after several stops I KNEW I had made a mistake. I went forward to speak with the bus driver to see if he spoke any English. He did not so I didn't know what to do. I rode the bus line to the end (which was about 8 stops) and then I got off. I did not recognize anything around me and I honestly didn't know where I was. I called Maya and explained that I was lost. I told her I had accidently taken #2 instead of #22. She got off her bus and took a #2 to find me! She is SO sweet! She came and helped me find my way! The bus driver said that he would not charge me again because I had had a bad enough day:) So, the lesson I learned....to look at the number on the side of the bus and not just the front of the bus. It seems like I'm learning a lot of these lessons:)