Saturday, June 29, 2013

1st day


Hey, everybody. Today at 4.30 a.m. I have arrived at the house of my host family. I picked my pajama from my luggage and I slept until 9.30 a.m. But I will explain you first what happened yesterday in the trip:  I woke up at 7 am to arrive the airport with time. I took the plane on time with no delay and I arrived in Paris at the expected time. I went by bus to the terminal where I had to catch the biggest plane in the world (I'm sorry that I didn't take any picture of it so that you could see how big it was). The plane took off on time, so no problem until there. In the plane I was sitting in the middle of a 3 seat module. On my left there was a French girl who didn't speak in the whole trip, and on my right there was an American girl from Minnesota who was 18 years old. I have been speaking with her for a while during the take off and the landing. Because she had a cold I offered her one of my tissue papers, but at the end she took all of them, poor girl... But anyway, we arrived earlier than expected. However, in NY all the problems started. I had to catch the flight to Richmond at 7 pm and it was 4 pm (NY time;remember that). The guy that picked us didn't ask if we had to catch another flight or if our trip had ended. So we went to pick the luggage and then he brought us to the arrivals area. I asked him if after leaving the other guys with their families he was going to take me to the plane. But he didn't even know that I had to catch another flight, so he called another man, and he let me with a bro (yeah man) who started asking me things from Spain, and I wasn't really in the mood to answer him because I was exhausted. He guided me to the terminal where the last plane had landed and when we were checking the next flight data ... they told us that it had been delayed until 9. So what a pity and all that but it didn't really matter a lot to me. The bro took me to a room where I had to wait for the time being, so I decided to sleep a little bit because although there where 4 more kids in the room, they where all with their phones without making any noise. So when it was almost 9 they told me that the flight had been delayed until 10, then until 10.30, 10.45 and 11. Then at 12 we were going to take off but they told us that there was a problem with the oxygen and that we all had to get off the plane (I thought I was going to die on my seat).  until finally we took off at 2 am because the plane wasn't ready or something like that. So while everybody was complaining, I was sleeping again next to another bro, and finally at 1 am or something like that we got on the plane (I was like a zombie). Then they told us that the plane wasn't ready and that we had to wait 15 minutes until it got ready, yes... 15 minutes 3 times because finally we took off at 2 am. I was feeling like: wow, I have been now 24 hours without sleeping, and then when all the other kids left the room where I was, a woman and a man started looking their Facebook and laughing all the time, so I couldn't sleep. Finally we reached Richmond at 3 am, which was the time when I think my parents woke up. So... time for breakfast!! Graham was waiting for me, so we went to the parking after picking the luggage and he took me to the Green’s house on a really cool Dodge. We arrived at 4.30 am, Quint was sleeping and Lexi was waiting for me in the living room. I went to bed and I woke up at 9.30 as I said. I spent the rest of the day unpacking my luggage and playing a little bit of videogames with Quint. I had a sandwich for lunch and at 6 we went for dinner!!! At 6!! Anyway, we ate with two friends of Graham and Lexi and their daughter and after that we went to get the SIM card for my mobile phone. Now I can call without any costs to Spain. Now at 9.30 I'm finishing this post, Quint is behind me playing Need For Speed, he's crashing all the time jajaja. So I think that it is more than enough for today. I'm "reventado", no pictures today

1 comment:

  1. Wow, Sergio, I didn't know NYC was that bad. I am so sorry! A least we let you sleep here, with hopefully little noise. You are going to have to get used to early dinner though. We don't usually eat two hours before bed. I am really glad you're here!

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