I Orientation in MIAMI
ALRIGHT HERE IT IS....
....starting back up with TOMKA... she and i waited for a while to take the bus to the Marriott so that we could get to orientation on time (which was 4:00... honestly on a plane all day and then straight to an orientation? pah.) Got on bus met some other chicks going with AFS to Argentina and arrived at the Marriott... it turns out there were people there going to Brazil, Uruguay, AND Argentina... so we got to mingle with them for a little while until we had a little talking to and a dinner. The food there was pretty good but it was still all typical american stuff since we were only in Miami and it was only us Americans so far... (later we´re told always to say norteamericanos because people in south america are offended when we refer to ourselves as just americans) Norhing eventful really happened at the Miami orientation, but i roomed with some chick from Alaska and she was nice enough... we never really talked. Anyways we had another day of orientation and there still wasnt anything that interesting, except i called home and i called kevin after his swim meets.... his best was 6TH PLACE ALL CITY for 100 FREE!!!!! (congrats babe youre an awesome swimmer!!! ) and then that night around 11 or so we all hauled our big ass suitcases (marked "big ass suitcase") to airport and spent god knows how long waiting in line...(we had 60 + AFSers in line... in our OWN line) By the time we had settled down in the ai---- OHOH they had this machine that blasted you with air!!!! They use it incase anyone has a bomb on them... if the air hits the bomb the pressure will cause it to explode lol.... it was really exciting.---- by the time we had settled in the airport it was around 12 and we didnt really have anything to do. Then our flight was delayed and the Brazilians/Uruguayans flight was CANCELED!!! FINALLY we boarded our flight and it was super late. I made friends with a guy named nash when we were in the terminal and we played games with each other for a while since we were so bored, and it turns out that he is sitting next to me on the plane! SO that was pretty cool. OOOH the plane was so big! it was 3-5-3 seating :D Haha, but we slept most of the night. We each had our own screen on the seat in front of us and we could choose what movie we wanted to watch. :D But the food was terrible. I dont think I actually got any real sleep on that flight but i was just slightly unconcious for some parts of it. They also had a map on our monitors of what we were flying over with a little moving plane symbol, it was pretty nifty. AND WE ARRIVED AT THE AIRPORT IN BUENOS AIRES AROUND 11 ARG TIME.....
....starting back up with TOMKA... she and i waited for a while to take the bus to the Marriott so that we could get to orientation on time (which was 4:00... honestly on a plane all day and then straight to an orientation? pah.) Got on bus met some other chicks going with AFS to Argentina and arrived at the Marriott... it turns out there were people there going to Brazil, Uruguay, AND Argentina... so we got to mingle with them for a little while until we had a little talking to and a dinner. The food there was pretty good but it was still all typical american stuff since we were only in Miami and it was only us Americans so far... (later we´re told always to say norteamericanos because people in south america are offended when we refer to ourselves as just americans) Norhing eventful really happened at the Miami orientation, but i roomed with some chick from Alaska and she was nice enough... we never really talked. Anyways we had another day of orientation and there still wasnt anything that interesting, except i called home and i called kevin after his swim meets.... his best was 6TH PLACE ALL CITY for 100 FREE!!!!! (congrats babe youre an awesome swimmer!!! ) and then that night around 11 or so we all hauled our big ass suitcases (marked "big ass suitcase") to airport and spent god knows how long waiting in line...(we had 60 + AFSers in line... in our OWN line) By the time we had settled down in the ai---- OHOH they had this machine that blasted you with air!!!! They use it incase anyone has a bomb on them... if the air hits the bomb the pressure will cause it to explode lol.... it was really exciting.---- by the time we had settled in the airport it was around 12 and we didnt really have anything to do. Then our flight was delayed and the Brazilians/Uruguayans flight was CANCELED!!! FINALLY we boarded our flight and it was super late. I made friends with a guy named nash when we were in the terminal and we played games with each other for a while since we were so bored, and it turns out that he is sitting next to me on the plane! SO that was pretty cool. OOOH the plane was so big! it was 3-5-3 seating :D Haha, but we slept most of the night. We each had our own screen on the seat in front of us and we could choose what movie we wanted to watch. :D But the food was terrible. I dont think I actually got any real sleep on that flight but i was just slightly unconcious for some parts of it. They also had a map on our monitors of what we were flying over with a little moving plane symbol, it was pretty nifty. AND WE ARRIVED AT THE AIRPORT IN BUENOS AIRES AROUND 11 ARG TIME.....