I'm not Korean, and yes I can speak English.

DO I LOOK KOREAN??? I do, don't I? Don't even try to deny it. There's a section of Los Angeles that is like um Mexicotown. Like Chinatown, but with Mexicans instead because California's close to Mexico. Anyway, there's lots of people that ask for money there, and two separate people came up to me individually and thought I was Korean and didn't speak English! Boo. China has scammers and beggars (not people that harass you for money though). America has money-harassers and beggars (but 'hopefully' not scammers). I guess Australia doesn't have anything except for beggars, which is good.

Today was a really...frantic day. I woke up at 5:30 because I had to take the bus to the train station. It was pretty freaky. Like something out of a horror movie. There's coyotes in the surrounding mountains where my family live (you can hear them howling) so yeah, it's definitely creepy when it's all dark and not a single car/person is out on the street. Anyway, my mum's cousin warned me that Moorpark transit is 'out of date'. Well, I thought to myself nothing can be more out of date than crappy Sydney public transport. I mean, look at Shanghai public transport. It may be sometimes crowded during the morning and evening at peak hours but it's very efficient. If they had English at the bus stops it'd be perfect. With buses coming every 5 minutes and subways every 3, and stations and stops everywhere, how can you complain? But I have to admit. Moorpark transport sucks. Hallelujah,found transport thats suckier than Sydney's. I walked for a few minutes to the bus stop but I didn't know there were two within a few metres of each other under the same street names (they don't have street names on the bus stops). So yup, I waited until 6:10 and saw the bus come...then turn because I'd waited at the other stop accidentally. Anyway, the earliest train to LA leaves at 7:17 and the bus comes every hour. So I had to get to the train station. So I asked these two nice people riding bikes how to walk there. They were pretty doubtful because it's really far away-ish. They were like, 'Honey, it's about a mile and a tenth' and I'm like, yeah that's useful, like I have any idea how far a mile is let alone a tenth of one. So they gave me some basic directions and I set out. One hour later, after I ran and speed-walked and made two wrong turns and ended up walking alongside an electricity generating plant that had 'danger' alongside the fence, I was feeling pretty down. So as you can guess, I couldn't find the train station in time for the earliest train. Found a bus stop and randomly got on a bus (there's only 2 routes) and went to the train station. Had to catch the 8:26 train ($18.50 for return ticket. Rip-off, much?). So that was lame, I was 1 hour behind schedule already. I ended up kind of winging my day in LA. Went shopping, found nice deals, walked around, got lost several times (luckily everyone's really polite so I'm not scared to ask) and eventually after a long day went back home. There was a reason why I needed to be in LA earlier, because Moorpark's last bus from the train station leaves at 5:12 so I had to catch the 3:35 train back to make it in time. Well obviously that didn't happen because I missed that god damn bus in the morning. So I had to get my mum's cousin to pick me up from the station at like 7:15. And I was already full from my Mcdonald's meal (see pic) but I didn't have the heart to tell them because they'd waited for me to start dinner.

By the way, yes I think I do have a bit of an accent (I think people might think it's a Chinese accent though). I've asked lots of people for directions and a lot of them can't understand me the first time round, so I try to speak slow. That was lame because I went to Starbucks for my grande peppermint mocha frappucino but somehow it came out sounding to the guy like I wanted a black coffee as well. So I had to get a refund for that and stuff. A LOT of people speak Spanish here. There's Spanish signs everywhere. There's loads of palm trees here too!

So that concludes my first official day in LA. Don't worry, I'm not just going to shop everyday. I was going to go to Japanese Village Plaza but didnt have the time. Tomorrow is Hollywood day. First up, I have to wake at 5:30. Again. SO I'm already screwed you see, it's 10:25pm right now and I'll be tired as hell. Guess I can sleep on the 1 hour train journey.

The jeans were $10 and the shirt was $2.50. My best bargains of today, I think.

Ok, I know this looks semi-gross. But I was starving. I over-ordered though, now I feel bloated and gross. I ordered a MEDIUM chicken nugget meal and a Reese's peanut butter cup Mcflurry. The Mcflurry was awesome, the dr pepper in the drink was not. Artificial cherry fizzy drink? No, thanks. I drank like a quarter. A medium in America is a large in Australia.