Holidays on Earth

Today, I went with my family to experience an Earthling trip. We were taking the bus over to Malaysia. It was quite a big bus and easily fitted us in. Well, we saw the customs as Earthlings called it, and we had to let those people see our passports, a process we would have to go through only when visiting other planets.

We even had a tour guide but I did not really listen because I was inputting this data into my PDA. Well, he asked if there were any vegetarians (those who ate only vegetables) on board, at least I found out one more thing about Earthlings.

Our first destination was the coffee shop. It had a bad smell, but luckily, it was not that strong. Many people ordered drinks, mainly iced drinks. It was a typical coffee shop with signs all over to indicate the different stores. In the corner, they sold magazines and CDs.

Right next to the coffee shop, there was a shop selling cuttlefish and other snacks, most of my family went there after a while because it is air conditioned, the displays were put on shelves and hooks near the walls. Others were put in carts in rows in the shop, better still, there was no bad smell.

And here we are again in the bus for another two hour marathon of sitting down, listening to the tour guide talking about the ostrich farm we were to visit later and our lunch and dinner arrangements. After that, he stopped talking and I could talk to my cousins and other people.

And now we reached the ostrich farm, we had to walk in but it appeared to be a great experience. We were allowed to touch those birds and feed them, they had long necks and heads, which made them, look very large, luckily they were gentle creatures. After we have seen them, we went to another part where we could eat ostrich meat, watch the young ostriches hatch and buy ostrich products.

After visiting the ostrich farm, we went for lunch. Yes I did say we did not need to eat but we can eat. Lunch took very long to come, and my relatives were getting impatient. Oh well, it finally came. It was supposed to be a seafood lunch but there was a full vegetable dish, i’m not really complaining though, there was crayfish and crab, and those were eaten up pretty quickly. They certainly knew which of the foods were good; did they really read the book [be a gourmet on Earth]?

We are now off to the fruit farm. We are sitting in the bus waiting for all the passengers to come up so it can move off. The fruit farm was, in my opinion, quite boring, not to mention hot, it was only when we went to the mini zoo that it became very interesting, they had goats and rabbits and we could feed the goats. There was a monkey that liked to chew on anything it got its hands on and even went to bite the microphone that the tour guide had. After that, we went to see the shops and buy some fruits, but there was no air conditioning. I hope that the next spot is cooler.

Shopping centres was the next destination. It was a big shopping centre all right, and it was cooler then staying out in the sun, but we were sitting at the fast food centre for most of the time after finding nothing to see, maybe it is just me. I saw many people walking around the place, and I was quite happy to see the bus that has come to take us to dinner.

Ok, it would have been a nice restaurant if it had not been for the crowd. They served us very late but they had chicken, fish and the usual vegetable, the same type as shown above. We had a hasty meal and left the place right after we had eaten.

The next destination was fireflies. I was very surprised to hear about it at first. On my planet, living things do not glow. And I was looking forward to seeing glowing creatures. We had to take the life jackets first before we could take the boat, the boat was long and there were seats at the side where we had to squeeze. There was still light when the boat moved off and I was wondering how we could see glowing creatures in the light. It got dark soon and I understood that Earthlings understood their conditions better. Yes, we did see the fireflies among the bushes and despite the warnings; I could not resist reaching out and trying to hold it. Yes, I got one eventually, but I opened my hand and it flew out. On some trees, they made the trees look like it had special shiny stuff hung on it.

And we had to go back to the country we came from. It would look strange if we had just teleported to my planet, and we took up almost half the bus. So we had to take the bus back to the customs and then teleport.

I think that this trip was very interesting, and it shows that there are a lot of mysteries on Earth that needs to be unravelled.