Thursday January 13th!!
Soooo currently sitting in the airport in PARIS, FRANCE!! yes indeed i made it! from san antonio to minneapolis then finally a killer flight into Paris. Right now its like 7am in Paris but 12:54am Texas time.. the sun still hasn’t rose yet either!! I was waiting for hours and hours to see France as we flew in but fail haha Paris is still sleeping. And I should be too. I had a fitful flight over the Atlantic. I sat next to some hottie french guy who spent his time reading the New York times and the Economist, we didn’t talk and I tried to sleep but the excitement has literally overpowered me and I couldn’t get my body to just relax and sleep. Also not by surprise I managed to get the fidgets, so I spent ten hours listening to the Enya playlist on my Ipod about 35 times and then just gave up and watched the on-flight movie- Eat Pray Love! Anyways, so we get into Paris and I am shuffled onto a shuttle bus and hauled off to the main terminal. The different languages and people are so exciting!!! A smile has yet to leave my face. This airport has got to be the most confusing place ever, and I’m pretty sure they were trying to hide my gate to Madrid from me. I walking down fifteen secret corridors, went to some underground lair, entered back up into a main terminal where people were waiting to pick up their friends so I thought I had actually left the airport, then I went through some security police, they stamped my passport (success), I went down a mile long moving walkway, where I then came to a security check point where the guy started speaking to me in french and I just giggled and said bonjour bonjour when finally i realized he was trying to tell me to get it moving through security so then i stripped down as I received death glares from the French security who were pissed that I had a water bottle, everyone was speaking french, I thought I lost my boarding pass, then I found it, then the lady made me chug the gallon of water as they all watched and then I was free to go!! I tried to use a pay phone to call my program in Madrid and tell them I would be late but all the directions were in French so I just you know.. gave up. So then I walked another five miles following a little sign that said “F” down to this little room painted neon orange and im pretty sure im in the right place. I’m pretty sure all these people were convinced by my new leather jacket that I was European so haha Successss!!! anyways now im like mildly delusional, I dont think I have really slept for the past 3 days and I want to speak spanish and why hasn’t the sun come up yet?!?!?
anywaysssss, I will be boarding in the next hour or so!!!!!!!
loving these adventures.
A LITTLE LATER: now I am sitting on the airplane ready to go to SPAIN! the sun is up!! and I have a new friend :) Her name is Naomi and I met here in the terminal. She is this amazing French Canadian girl and she is studying at my same university in Madriddd!!!! She has a lovely french accent, has volunteered at an orphanage in India, and plans to go to Israel after Spain!! successs for friendsss. we are planning on getting a taxi together into the city! Okay time to put this laptop away and I have high hopes of seeing the eiffel tower once I take off. These rain clouds don’t look too nice though
Soooo Naomi and I ended up getting on a plane but after about 30 minutes waiting for it to take off they decided that Madrid was too foggy to fly into so we had to get off the plane and go back to the terminal, then we had to get reissued a boarding pass and had to wait another hour for another plane!!! Thank god for Naomi, she was literally totting me around and translating for me while I followed half asleep. In the terminal we had this wonderful multicultural moment where me, Naomi, a French woman, a couple from Peru, and a woman from Brasil were all talking in Enlgish, French, Spanish, and Portuguese and translating for each other and ahhh it was just awesome... ANDDDDDD I got mistaken for a Brazilian!!! SUCCCESSSSS. for reals. anyways, the flight to Madrid was fine, I fell asleep right away, didn't see the Eiffel Tower, but woke up in time to see the mountains coming into MADRID. Naomi and I got all our bags and then went to find a taxi. I navigated this all with my SPANISH!!! it was so exciting, then we got to Madrid and I was dropped off at my hotel. In the room I called the program director and a man named Paco came and retrieved me and took me to the orientation which I was 5 hours late for. Heard a bunch of stuff then went out to dinner with all the kids in our program for TAPAS and ate with some spanish students that had come to talk to us. It was lovelyyyyy but I am literally like falling out of my chair with tiredness so after dinner I'm back to the hotel!!!!!!!!! GOING TO SLEEP
Ready to see MADRID tomorrow with bright eyes and a sharper mind. love love love this all...
chauuuuu
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