the forever long plane ride
the plane ride over was actually OK. it actually went better than i expected. i wasn't sure if my ears would make it as my ears gave up on me my senior year of swimming but the flight was actually ok. i took my sudafed, chewed my gum like crazy and was actually calm.
it was completely foreign to me in the minneapolis airport. i hadn't been there since i was 6 years old and on my way to my 2nd trip to disneyworld. and i remembered how much my ears hurt. after a tearful goodbye to my parents (i told myself that i wasn't going to cry...i don't even cry i don't think because i'm sad, it's more like, i'm leaving them for 2 months and i know they are probably sadder than i am so i feel like i'm supposed to cry...weird), losing my contact while crying, which made a good reason to stop the crying, giving the guard at the x-ray/check in point a "you're crazy" look when i completly forgot about running one's shoes through the x-ray, trying to find caribou coffee for a smoothie and found out the airport doesn't have accurate maps and having to change gates due to a fuel leak, we finally lifted off. i still worry aobut my film, even after the very stern, large african-american woman told me in a loud voice that any film under 800 would be ok through the x-ray. i'll be mad if it's not. well, more than mad. completly heart broken.
after a plane switch in detroit to the airbus, or a northwestern a330, we were flyin in high style. we had these cool tv/computer screens each to ourselves. i watched finding neverland which was as wonderful as i expected it to be, listened to some music and tried playing games. i think my game feature was broken though as every time i tried to play a game the system would restart itself. not cool.
we were so low on sleep due to those computer screens in the airplane and not to mention those uncomfortable seats. i did have a window seat however. right on the wing. i was trying desperatly to stay awake, but i got really sick. not sure if it was motion sickness or not, but all i wanted to do was watch the sun rise up over the horizon and i barely saw it. from what i did see though, it was beartifully breathtaking, coming up over this curve of clouds as we pressed on towards london.
london gatwick airport was very ghetto. i was run down and old. i did successfully make it through customs, even though some had problems as oxford forgot to send them information on our group. i found my bag also, with no problems. then we waited around for awhile in teh smokey lobby area (they all smoke around here! indoors, too - yuck!) and then boarded our backwards bus. england is just like the U.S. except they drive on the outherside, have different packages for goods, same produck though, and have funny accents. we like to try and talk like them. they also have different power outlets. one girls hair straightener melted, some's hairdryers don't always work. my ipod plugged in and charged just fine, thankfully.
i didn't really pay attention on the bus ride to oxford and wycliffe hall. i don't hthink anyone did. we all slept.
i would like to tell you more, but it's £1 for 20 minutes on the internet. and since £1 = $2, that's really $2 for 20 minutes. so i'm going to stop here for now and when i can, i'll tell you all about oxford and really how different it is than what i was expecting. o, and about our room in a really old college with a balcony out the window...kinda like monica's place on friends!
england is wonderful...talk to you all soon....
andi
it was completely foreign to me in the minneapolis airport. i hadn't been there since i was 6 years old and on my way to my 2nd trip to disneyworld. and i remembered how much my ears hurt. after a tearful goodbye to my parents (i told myself that i wasn't going to cry...i don't even cry i don't think because i'm sad, it's more like, i'm leaving them for 2 months and i know they are probably sadder than i am so i feel like i'm supposed to cry...weird), losing my contact while crying, which made a good reason to stop the crying, giving the guard at the x-ray/check in point a "you're crazy" look when i completly forgot about running one's shoes through the x-ray, trying to find caribou coffee for a smoothie and found out the airport doesn't have accurate maps and having to change gates due to a fuel leak, we finally lifted off. i still worry aobut my film, even after the very stern, large african-american woman told me in a loud voice that any film under 800 would be ok through the x-ray. i'll be mad if it's not. well, more than mad. completly heart broken.
after a plane switch in detroit to the airbus, or a northwestern a330, we were flyin in high style. we had these cool tv/computer screens each to ourselves. i watched finding neverland which was as wonderful as i expected it to be, listened to some music and tried playing games. i think my game feature was broken though as every time i tried to play a game the system would restart itself. not cool.
we were so low on sleep due to those computer screens in the airplane and not to mention those uncomfortable seats. i did have a window seat however. right on the wing. i was trying desperatly to stay awake, but i got really sick. not sure if it was motion sickness or not, but all i wanted to do was watch the sun rise up over the horizon and i barely saw it. from what i did see though, it was beartifully breathtaking, coming up over this curve of clouds as we pressed on towards london.
london gatwick airport was very ghetto. i was run down and old. i did successfully make it through customs, even though some had problems as oxford forgot to send them information on our group. i found my bag also, with no problems. then we waited around for awhile in teh smokey lobby area (they all smoke around here! indoors, too - yuck!) and then boarded our backwards bus. england is just like the U.S. except they drive on the outherside, have different packages for goods, same produck though, and have funny accents. we like to try and talk like them. they also have different power outlets. one girls hair straightener melted, some's hairdryers don't always work. my ipod plugged in and charged just fine, thankfully.
i didn't really pay attention on the bus ride to oxford and wycliffe hall. i don't hthink anyone did. we all slept.
i would like to tell you more, but it's £1 for 20 minutes on the internet. and since £1 = $2, that's really $2 for 20 minutes. so i'm going to stop here for now and when i can, i'll tell you all about oxford and really how different it is than what i was expecting. o, and about our room in a really old college with a balcony out the window...kinda like monica's place on friends!
england is wonderful...talk to you all soon....
andi
posted by andi at 7:00 AM
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