On Monday we moved the office to another house that's a bit more far away. The amount of stuff that we had to move and load into the truck was incredible! Thankfully I didn't have to un-load it too. The good thing was that we cleaned up a lot, cleaned up as in throwing away everything that they didn't need any more. That storage room had so many things inside! Lot's of unused blenders, trays of all shapes, colors and sizes made by my brother, tools, bowls, keyboards, an old Lexmark printer, well basically, anything. By the end of the day the truck had traveled 7 times to the new place, and it still wasn't enough because they made a few more on Tuesday.
Yesterday I didn't have to go to work (Thank God!! Because my arms and legs were destroyed!) so today was the first time I went to the new place since they made all the renovations. Since it's a bit more far away and less accessible than the other one I went by train. TRAIN! I never take the train. Never, ever. Ever. Seriously. I don't like it very much, that's one of the reasons, and the other one is because I never needed to use it before. Usually I can get anywhere by bus. But this time I have the train station just a block away from home and then from the train station to the office I have 4/5 more blocks. And it's faster AND chipper than the bus. In this case, the train outweighs it completely.
I was on the phone with my mom this morning, asking her where I had to get off the train and in which direction I had to go from the station. In my head I thought that the trains that went, went in the right direction and trains that came, well, came from the left direction.
Here's a little drawing to explain my thinking. See, in Argentina traffic goes through the right lanes and comes through the left ones, that's why I thought it was like that with trains.
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
So when my mom and I were on the phone...
Mom: When you get off the train you'll have to walk to the bridge and cross to the other side of the station and-
Sofi: Wait. I don't understand. *scratches head*
Mom: You have to get OFF the train and cross to the other side.
Sofi: why? Isn't the office to the right?
Mom: Yes.
Sofi: Then why I have to cross to the other side? Doesn't the train leave me on the right side?
Apparently I was getting the wrong picture in my head because in reality the direction of the trains work like this:
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
This way, the train leaves me on the left side so it made sense what my mom was telling me. Still, I didn't understand.
Mom: The train leaves you on the left side.
Sofi: How come?
Mom: Oh, God! The English made our rail roads, remember? They builded them!! That's why the directions are different.
Sofi: Oooh...right...I didn't thought about that.
So, what I'm trying to say here is that since late 1800's and early 1900's when the English build our rail roads, we never changed it back and adopted those directions. Or, all trains are like that? Great. Now I'm confused >:(
Two days in a row that I talk about the English! Yesterday we were discussing all this conflict with the Malvinas Islands (Or as the English pple call them, Faulkland Islands). But that's a completely different issue that I don't want to talk about. At least here because even I don't know where I stand. I mean, I do know where I stand and that's why I don't want to talk about it.
Yesterday I didn't have to go to work (Thank God!! Because my arms and legs were destroyed!) so today was the first time I went to the new place since they made all the renovations. Since it's a bit more far away and less accessible than the other one I went by train. TRAIN! I never take the train. Never, ever. Ever. Seriously. I don't like it very much, that's one of the reasons, and the other one is because I never needed to use it before. Usually I can get anywhere by bus. But this time I have the train station just a block away from home and then from the train station to the office I have 4/5 more blocks. And it's faster AND chipper than the bus. In this case, the train outweighs it completely.
I was on the phone with my mom this morning, asking her where I had to get off the train and in which direction I had to go from the station. In my head I thought that the trains that went, went in the right direction and trains that came, well, came from the left direction.
Here's a little drawing to explain my thinking. See, in Argentina traffic goes through the right lanes and comes through the left ones, that's why I thought it was like that with trains.
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
So when my mom and I were on the phone...
Mom: When you get off the train you'll have to walk to the bridge and cross to the other side of the station and-
Sofi: Wait. I don't understand. *scratches head*
Mom: You have to get OFF the train and cross to the other side.
Sofi: why? Isn't the office to the right?
Mom: Yes.
Sofi: Then why I have to cross to the other side? Doesn't the train leave me on the right side?
Apparently I was getting the wrong picture in my head because in reality the direction of the trains work like this:
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
This way, the train leaves me on the left side so it made sense what my mom was telling me. Still, I didn't understand.
Mom: The train leaves you on the left side.
Sofi: How come?
Mom: Oh, God! The English made our rail roads, remember? They builded them!! That's why the directions are different.
Sofi: Oooh...right...I didn't thought about that.
So, what I'm trying to say here is that since late 1800's and early 1900's when the English build our rail roads, we never changed it back and adopted those directions. Or, all trains are like that? Great. Now I'm confused >:(
Two days in a row that I talk about the English! Yesterday we were discussing all this conflict with the Malvinas Islands (Or as the English pple call them, Faulkland Islands). But that's a completely different issue that I don't want to talk about. At least here because even I don't know where I stand. I mean, I do know where I stand and that's why I don't want to talk about it.
