Jitters and Critters
Hello lovely blog of mine, I want to treat this as my personal diary of the series of events and what I experienced during this exciting trip to San Francisco, California. Hence the title, I am having a bit of jitters going into this process, it’s scary experiencing new things but I also am excited to be brought out of my comfort zone and experience everything as a group. I am mostly excited to be able to experience the diverse mindsets that are in San Francisco. There is a lot more diversity there than there is in our mere town of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. But also, being excited about these things makes me nervous, what if I don’t fit in? What if they think I am weird and reserved? Since I am Queer and a person of color, especially in a white dominated area, I fear that sometimes I have a disconnect from people of color who are Queer. That makes me have a main goal of connecting more to Queer, Trans, People of color and learning about their stories in an area with more politically active environments as well as more diverse thinking all around.
After all my jitters, I also have the critters portion of my post. I am deathly afraid of most bugs; I can get behind maybe an ant hill or two but there are some things I can’t stand. I happened to look up what kind of bugs are in San Francisco out of curiosity, it scared me so bad that I had to close the tab, like what do you mean there are weird cryptids out there to get me. Other than but critters, I am also curious to see the different environment in general that San Franscisco has to offer. I love other bugs; however, butterflies are one of my favorite insects and have always been a favorite of mine. Knowing this I obviously had to find a butterfly garden in San Francisco, I have only ever been to one in my entire life, and it was one of the best experiences, they are all so beautiful and stunning and it reminds me of the animal crossing and the butterfly garden that you can contribute to when you catch butterflies in the wild. That is one of many things I am looking forward to.
Other than the scary bugs occupying the land, there is a lot of beautiful spots in San Francisco that I noticed when doing a little research on the place, such as the Castro, obviously, and also the different diverse places, such as Japan town in San Francisco with the Peace Pagoda, as well as the Pink Ladies houses, and of course, the Palace of Fine Arts. All these places are stunning and there are more that are on my bucker list to go see while I spend my time in San Francisco. My main goal is to go to Japantown and the Japanese tea Gardens, I think both places will be interesting to explore and will teach me a lot about a new but familiar culture.
Closing off, I started with the jitters I had for San Francisco, and now I want to end with what I am excited for and what I think will be good, so when I look back on this I can giggle and laugh. I am obviously very excited for the films and the shock that also goes with them, and of course I am excited to experience this with my fellow Q-Fest interns and share my thoughts on each movie with them and how they felt about it. I am afraid of getting lost int he big city. However, I am not a city girl at heart so I will be getting lost I am sure, but that is why I will have a buddy system, so if we get lost at least we are lost together. I am also afraid of not being to experience everything that I think is awesome and cute, I have serious FOMO sometimes, and when I am traveling this is especially true since there is so much to see and do that, I get scared that I am not doing it all! There is probably not enough physical time to do everything, but I like to believe I can fly around and do everything at once so that I don’t miss an opportunity for anything. Well, for now for this is it, see you all later, Makayla signing out!
