Why do I need a car if I can walk? I can save a lot of money, energy and environment. I walk to school every day, it takes me about 15 minutes to go to school and 15 minutes to go back home. I do not need to go to gym, steam or sauna to exercise or to make me healthy because 30-minute-walk every day is like exercise and enough for me. Anyway, I like driving and I have a California driver license; unfortunately, I do have a car and I do not need a car at the present. I really want to own a car but not at the moment. If I have a car, it will be good and very easy for me because I can go somewhere on the weekend or on the holiday. I can go to visit my friends. In addition, I do not need call my friends to pick me up all the times whenever I want to visit him or somewhere else. Since I arrived here, I drive a car for several times. I like driving in LA. I feel very safe when I drive on freeway, and I can drive very fast.
Taking the bus is terrible. I hate taking the bus, but I have take a bus for sometime when I want to go somewhere, or visit my friends when they are busy and cannot come to pick me up for some reasons. From my house to my friends' house, I have to change three or four buses and it takes very long compared to driving a car. I have to wait for the bus at the bus stop about 15 minutes before I can get into the bus and every time I change the bus. onetime I started to suffer from dizzy because the bus was unstable and stopped almost every bus stop to pick up and drop passengers. Moreover, the bus is normally crowded and has strange smell because some people use strong perfume, cologne, or body spray and some people get seat and have bad smell. I cannot take a bus whenever I want. I have to manage and plan carefully before I go somewhere. I feel uncomfortable to take the bus to go somewhere. It might ruin your schedule and times.
In Cambodia, the bus system is worse than California’s. Most buses are old, crowded and have a bad smell. In Phnom Penh, we cannot find the bus because the bus is available only from Phnom Penh, capital city of Cambodia, to other provinces and from one province to other provinces. When I was in Cambodia, I took a bus to visit my parents several times a year. When I stepped on the bus, I felt very strange and boring. Anyhow, I felt very happy when I arrived at my home town. Majority of people have their own transportations especially motorbike. Phnom Penh is small so motorbike is the best solution for transportation. Many motor taxis are available anywhere, anytime(24/7/365). In Khmer, we call “Motor Dup”. We can take motor dup anywhere in the city at reasonable price. We sometime see taxi in the city. Nevertheless, we have to book or call the taxi company by phone to pick us up before time or leave or go any places because we hardly find them in some places.
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