Next time I look at my watch, it's 11:49. Shit.
I hurriedly got dressed and ran to the nearest pay phone to call David's cell. It took several attempts for me to figure out how to dial to a cellphone with a German area code. I'd told him that I'd be at the very least 2 hrs late.
I wait around for the bus going towards the train station and eventually give up, and decide to walk instead.
Once I get to the train station, I missed the last train by 1min, so I have to wait half an hour to get the next one.
I end up getting to Basel around 3:40, ridiculously late. I call David, and we meet up by a church. Basel was a cute little old town, but pretty dead on a Sunday (european shops aren't open sundays). It was nice catching up with David, but I didn't get to spend that much time with him since I was so late and he had to leave around 6pm.
Also, today, I set my alarm for 8am. I woke up at 10am, which means I'd be at least an hour and a half late for class, but then I just came online and started writing an e-mail and this post instead of getting dressed. I'm feeling a "moleza" and feeling that it's not like I'm learning that much from class, and this is a vacation.
Also, I'm realizing that it hasn't been my alarm clock that's been waking me up all week. I was just "jetlagged" in a way that made my sleep schedule like normal people's (sleep at 11pm or earlier, wake up around 8am or earlier). Now I've gotten rid of it (probably that night I stayed up till 4am since I was talking to a mom, Marcia, and Robin on MSN), I'm in my "normal" sleep schedule of waking up at noon. I'm thinking I should get a travel clock or something that beeps because this waking up late and missing a train or a class isn't that big of a deal, but if at some point I miss a flight, that would suck.
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