Departing Kansas City/Gateway Orientation in Miami
**Ok, I'll be writing this for the days of August 20th and 21st.
I woke up at 4am and then went to the airport a little after 5am. My parents and I arrived at the airport and I was nervous/sad/excited ALL at the same time!! After I checked in, we went to sit down until it was time. I kept looking at the clock. When it hit 6am, I still wasn't ready to separate from my parents. I waited another 5min. before deciding to get up and go through the gate. We got up there and then I broke into tears when giving hugs to my parents. My flight was supposed to leave by 7am, but the weather in Memphis was too bad, so all of the passengers just sat on the plane for more that an hour! Once we finally left and reached Memphis, I hurried to switch planes and sat on there for about 30min before leaving AGAIN because they needed to fix something. When I finally arrived in Miami, I grabbed my luggage and waited outside for the Embassy Suites bus to take me to the hotel. I got outside and I saw one, but the driver said she was full. So I waited for like 30min and it was HOT!! I got on the bext bus and met a couple other AFS kids. I've met about 12 other kids who are here at the Gateway Orientation going abroad. Many of them are going to Ecuador and a few to Dominican Republic. The hotel was REALLY nice (I'll post pics later) and I had a pretty tight roomate from Oregon. A lady who got to talk to us with AFS, I found out that SHE WORKED FOR THE KANSAS AFS!?! I think Manhattan, so I thought that was cool. The next day (21st) got up at 8am and ate breakfast and filled out a couple of papers. We even opened a couple Sparkling Apple Cider bottles and "clincked". After we got all done, we got 2 hours of free time, so during that time I was writing what to say on here since I didn't have internet so I wrote it down. Later we're supposed to watch a video, have lunch, do games, and the Ecuador kids will leave at 2:30. :( At 2:45 the rest of us (4-5 ppl) will have movie/free time and head to the airport at 4:30. My flight to Mexico is at 7:55pm and I'll land in Mexico at 10:10pm. Then I'll have a 2 day oriendation w/ a little over 100 kids placed in Mexico. KEEP READING MY BLOG FOR MORE UPDATES!!
I woke up at 4am and then went to the airport a little after 5am. My parents and I arrived at the airport and I was nervous/sad/excited ALL at the same time!! After I checked in, we went to sit down until it was time. I kept looking at the clock. When it hit 6am, I still wasn't ready to separate from my parents. I waited another 5min. before deciding to get up and go through the gate. We got up there and then I broke into tears when giving hugs to my parents. My flight was supposed to leave by 7am, but the weather in Memphis was too bad, so all of the passengers just sat on the plane for more that an hour! Once we finally left and reached Memphis, I hurried to switch planes and sat on there for about 30min before leaving AGAIN because they needed to fix something. When I finally arrived in Miami, I grabbed my luggage and waited outside for the Embassy Suites bus to take me to the hotel. I got outside and I saw one, but the driver said she was full. So I waited for like 30min and it was HOT!! I got on the bext bus and met a couple other AFS kids. I've met about 12 other kids who are here at the Gateway Orientation going abroad. Many of them are going to Ecuador and a few to Dominican Republic. The hotel was REALLY nice (I'll post pics later) and I had a pretty tight roomate from Oregon. A lady who got to talk to us with AFS, I found out that SHE WORKED FOR THE KANSAS AFS!?! I think Manhattan, so I thought that was cool. The next day (21st) got up at 8am and ate breakfast and filled out a couple of papers. We even opened a couple Sparkling Apple Cider bottles and "clincked". After we got all done, we got 2 hours of free time, so during that time I was writing what to say on here since I didn't have internet so I wrote it down. Later we're supposed to watch a video, have lunch, do games, and the Ecuador kids will leave at 2:30. :( At 2:45 the rest of us (4-5 ppl) will have movie/free time and head to the airport at 4:30. My flight to Mexico is at 7:55pm and I'll land in Mexico at 10:10pm. Then I'll have a 2 day oriendation w/ a little over 100 kids placed in Mexico. KEEP READING MY BLOG FOR MORE UPDATES!!
The End.