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my name is Abdullah and I'm 20 years old. I'm from kuwait not from any specific region because as u know Kuwait is a small country. I grauated from high school when I was 18 in kuwait. I went to Egypt to get my degree which is MARINE ENGINEERING. I stayed in Egypt for a whole year then I decided to move to the US since I didn't like it down there. In august 2007, I moved to santa monica and I changed my major to MECHANICAL ENGINEERING. I spent the first semester learning English and I started to take other classes after finishing my intensive English semester. while I'm living in the US, I started to learn more about responsiblity and how to deal with everything. I hope by choosing the US I can be more successful and get my degree so I get a good job then have fun before I become an old man ;-)

Thursday, November 20, 2008

YOSEMITE camping trip




















I had this idea about changing the rotten and do something unusual. I suggested this crazy idea to go camping the last weekend. First of all everybody agreed with me since we were expecting to have fun there. We started the trip with some friend and we hit the road so late because of some of them, anyways we arrived to Yosemite around 11 pm after 5 hours of driving. The first problem was when the phone signal was cut and we couldn't call the two cars that were following us and it was a problem since I'm the only one who has been there before and knows the way. After waiting for 30 minutes we decided to drive back hopping that we'll find them. We drove all the way back and we found them then we went back to the rest of the group - the group was 17 people divided to 6 cars - after that we started driving to the campground. When we got to the last turn that is next to the campground, we noticed that one car is missing. It was a shock because the whole way was only one lane and I don't know exactly how did they loose the way!!

Like we did before, one car went back to find them and I didn't go with them because I'm already sleepy :-). After one hour of waiting they came back and we had another problem when we saw the sighn that says '' the road is closed from November to March so we decided to take another way and go all the way to Yosemite Valley. After loosing the way many time due to streets repairs we found the campground finally and it was already 2 am. we started to put the tents, light a fire, and cook the late late dinner. We slept really late and it was so cold though. I woke up in the morning because of some noises when I saw two of my friends talking and they told me that here was a huge bear outside!. I didn't pay any attention because it was so cold and I was scared too ;-P. We all woke up and we had breakfast then we spent the whole day walking, taking pictures, and sitting by the water falls. While we were leaving to the mountain again to find a camp ground, we lost two cars and after 1 hour of searching they called us telling us that the arrived to the camp ground. We went there and we met them but the worst thing is that it started raining. When we arrived to the campground it was raining so hard and we couldn't find any dry spot so we took our stove out and we started cooking under the rain. we almost finished our meal when it became impossible to stand outside anymore. After discussing the situation some of my friends decided to go back to LA and the rest including me decided to spend the night in one of the motels. We tried hard to drive in the rain but the most shocking moment was when we saw the street white!!. Yes, it was snowing :-D. Maybe that was unexpected, but we continued driving until we arrived to a motel outside Yosemite and it took us 3 hours to get there. We spent the night there and it was so good since we didn't rest and have enough sleep the previous night. We went back home the other day after a trip full of problems and hard moment. I couldn't express about all the details because it could take me the whole day writing about that but the only thing I can say after that is '' we had a good time and it was so fun ''.