Hurrah! I'm back in the USA!
This is how the travel from Cebu to Los Angeles goes, on Philippine Airlines.
You have to be at the Cebu airport two hours before departure. The flight to Manila is one hour. When you arrive Manila, you have to exit the Domestic building and walk up to the International departure area. You have to be screened all over again. You pay your terminal fee of P550, then go stand in another line to go through the Immigration officials. You're screened one more time, then you're in the terminal section with the various departure gates.
You're screened one last time to get to a smaller holding area. Another wait, then you get on your plane, and it's a little over a 13 hour flight from Manila to Los Angeles. When all is said and done, it takes around 18 hours to get from one end of the world to the next. There's time change, so you leave and arrive on the same day. (You lose a day.)
But I made it back without any problems! Yaay!
More tomorrow then, if I'm not too jetlagged.
These pictures are from the US of A, showing Arches, Bryce, Sedona, Sedona again, and Taos.
Friday, July 19, 2013
I'm Back in the USA! by Cecilia Brainard
Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books..
Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized.
Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines.
She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.
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