Actually, I want to point out something strange that I noticed while we were on Highway 5. On both sides of the road, there are these fields of trees that are very nicely... placed. It was around 7:00 ish when I noticed this, so it was around sunset time. While driving south on highway 5, the sun is on the right side of the highway. However, the fields on the right side of the highway had no light beneath the rows of trees - all shade, all dark. The fields on the left side of the highway had lots of light showing between the spaces of each row. It's just weird because the sunlight is closer to the right side of highway, yet the fields on the right side didn't have any light but the ones opposite the right side did. But yeah as a photographer I notice strange things like this.
Anyways, after my friends and I finally reached our hotel after getting food and water and stuff around 1:30 in the morning, I just kept thinking about how different we are from these group of LA people. Granted, there are people there like them here. I'm not saying anything bad about them - they just seem a lot ... less calm. I guess I can't really say anything because I've never liked any celebrity as much as these people have. I would fangirl over them but that feeling of obsession would never get to the point where I would want to completely dress myself up and hog that celebrity all to myself. These girls were kind of... aggressive? Well aggressive is kind of an exaggeration, but I can't find the right adjective to describe them at the moment. There actually wasn't much pushing and shoving like I'd imagined there would be - everyone was just like hypnotized at each member of the boyband as they walked out of their terminal exits. Then when nothing happened for a few seconds, someone would take the chance to get a hug or a photograph or get something autographed. All the while, my friends and I were fairly calm. If I saw one of the members coming out, I'd shout like "LOOK IT'S NATHAN" or "LOOK IT'S JAY" trying to get the attention of my friends but realizing too late I'm getting the attention of everyone else, too.
I must admit it was pretty nice being a paparazzi for a few minutes that night, haha. Everyone gave way to me whenever a photograph was about to be taken because looking like a young girl myself, they'd think I was the one taking the photograph for them. I do feel bad for continuously using flash in front of the faces of these tired singers, though. So I sincerely apologize for that but at the moment, I didn't really think about what I was doing and how annoying I was being to them.
I couldn't help noticing how completely calm and, I guess, reserved my friends and I were. These girls are all in high school or college. As for the high school ones, I must say that my friends and I went to a completely different high school than they did. Well first off, these girls grew up in the city, while we grew up in a very prestigious suburb. Not that we didn't have any classmates like them - we're just not exactly in competition with these kinds of people that often.
But yeah as weird this trip was at times, I actually really like LA - in that I'd like to explore it more. I actually like anywhere now that I think about it - just not this city because I've been stuck here for like 14 years. I haven't 'explored' much the cities surrounding this area. All I know is that Saratoga is a really nice city and Sunnyvale has a lot of good places to eat. I just really like how different LA is from here and how there are so many things to do down there! Even San Francisco doesn't have as much to do compared to LA. Even up to 10:00 pm, the buildings that compose the skyline of LA still had tons of lights on and it really just reminded of me of Tokyo - a city that doesn't shut down until really late into the night. And a Pinkberry that opens past 1 am! Being someone that doesn't like sleeping, I think it'd be nice to go here for college, haha. Unfortunately, if I get less than seven hours of sleep I'll either not talk or be really cross for the rest of the day. If I do get into some place like UCLA, I must also remember that the night environment of the area is a lot different than home, so perhaps I would not stay out late in the first place. I don't know - we'll see.
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