Hey guys, what’s up? I am Jazzella, but I prefer to be called Jazz. It will be exactly one year this 25th January 2011, since I came to Paradise, U.S.A. Where am I originally from? That would be a very tricky question. But it has a very simple yet a rather strange answer, any guesses? Okay I know I don’t look like the typical human, but I am trying my best to be one. That is to say, I am from another planet! Yes that is right; ANOTHER PLANET!!! My planet is a small one, called Riveria. Our physical buildup is quite close to the humans, except for the fact that we are taller, have four fingers instead of five and we have a flawless ivory complexion. Maybe this was one of the reason’s I decided on living in America, which has people from all over the world. It was easier for me to blend in.
Riveria is a water planet with very less land. It’s an unknown planet, so don’t even bother looking at the map to locate it. Now the question, on how did I get here? Well, I was on a trip to earth, my folks landed and I wandered off, exploring this new planet and whosssh my folks took off without me. Would this not be the patent but perfect reason? But that is not how I got here. Let me take you back in time…
In our planet, we don’t measure time in days, weeks and months. My planet revolves with twice the speed of earth. We have different time zones in Riveria. Our one day is equal to an Earth’s two days. We have no set timings for sunrise or sunset. Being the farthest planet from the sun, we live in darkness most of the time. But our technology is such that we have found a way to compensate for the barely there sunlight. We have cultivated our own sun, oh yes! I know it is a weird concept. But we have bought together the basic components of the sun that are hydrogen, helium, oxygen, carbon, neon, iron and few others, through scientific researches. It took us decades of researches, many trips to different planets that are closer to the Sun. We wanted to make sure that we recreated a sun which was absolutely close to the real one, if not identical.
There were constant discussions on whether this invention will be a success or a disaster. While most mocked the entire idea of another sun, an unnatural one, others were more supportive. After a lot of trials and errors, a satellite was launched around the Riverian-made sun. Initially, it was a great success. We had the sun light all day, it was beautiful. But as the experiment concentrated on bringing the sunlight to our planet, we had not invented a way to regulate the sunrise and the sunset. So unfortunately the light never ceased to die down. So the scientist’s started to do more research on the working of the sun, and how they can make it rise and set like the original sun. In the mean time, the sun had started to perform its duties which ended up intervening in the natural sun’s working.
Being a water planet, our planet started to experience water hazards. Some places witnessed the sea’s fury. The lands that were inhabited by my fellow Riverians were gulped into the wild sea. The researchers were working round the bent to get the situation in control. The Riverians started to unleash their anger unto them, which did not make the scientist’s job any simpler. In a few days the sun started to expand, owing to the abnormal hydrogen and helium activities. It divided into three parts, two small and one big crushing the satellite. With no way to monitor the Riverian-made sun things started to get out of hand. Many Riverians lost their lives. Our people decided it was time to leave our lands and go seek refuge elsewhere. We visited various planets, Jupiter was a very bad experience, we were lucky to leave alive. My parents and I thought of the possible planets where we could stay and be invisible.
It was 14th January 2010, when we left our planet and finally 25th January 2010 we landed in a secluded island, called Paradise. We made it our home. It might amaze you at how fast we reached owing to the distance of billion light years that we had to cover. In my defense, my planets technology was very advance. We made the sun remember!!! Okay we played with the natural setup, and hence it went all bad. So my point is that, we CAN travel really very fast.
We camped at a beach side location which was quite secluded. Slowly we learned the ways of the earthlings. Initially, we felt lost and unprotected, but soon we learned to trust the humans and co-exist in peace. According to the earth’s time span, I was 18 years old. With no formal education, getting into any institute in America was difficult.
I started to work at Starbucks. Maybe my different physical appearance intrigued my owner and so I might have landed the job. While cleaning tables at star bucks, I bumped into a boy who looked familiar. It was Adamon, from my own planet. He was my classmate from School, at Riveria. He was always helpful but kept to himself, like all genius’s do. But this time we just had that look of, relief. To find someone of your own clan amidst the crowd is one feeling, but you cannot even begin to imagine the feeling, of finding a fellow Riverian in another alien planet.
Maybe it was my luck, or my fate that brought the two of us together. Thanks to the place where we came from, intelligence was our birthright. It only took us few months to prepare and get selected at the assistant level at NASA. We know more than most of the NASA people, but we maintain our ignorance and blend in perfectly well. Occasionally demonstrating our smartness in front of the people we feel; deserve to know a little more about the secrets of this universe.
I still miss Riveria. But I have learnt one thing for sure that; life goes on and we must move along with it. And Earth was the perfect place to start a new beginning.
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