Only four days to go until my mom drops me off at PDX Airport,
waves goodbye and says, "well see ya!. Have a good time and behave yourself."
Followed by hours of leg cramps, turbulence interrupted sleep and
terrible jet lag. I'll wobble off the plane and find myself transported to
another dimension, parallel to the world I know.
Maybe that's a little dramatic. I'm sure there will be many
drawn-out, heart-felt farewells, possibly a few tears at PDX airport. And I
sleep like a rock so the flight won't be too bad. All in all the first step, or
lift-off, as a Rotary exchange student is bound to be an
unforgettable, terrifyingly, exciting, EPIC moment of my life.
I just got my flight itinerary and I leave August 7th
(less than four days from now! That’s crazy!!) at 9:50 a.m. from PDX airport.
From there I’ll go to Seattle. Really exciting huh? After all the goodbyeing at
PDX I’ll hop on a plane and get off an hour later in the familiar city of Seattle.
But oh well, the next plane ride lands in a little more exciting place. From Seattle
I go to Frankfurt. And finally the last stretch of my flight is from Frankfurt
to Graz!
All together I’m in planes or at airports for a total of about
16 hours. That’s exhausting just thinking about it. But at least I got a few
movies on my laptop, some books I’ve been resisting to start, and all my German
books to do some cram-studying. Yay! There’s also going to be other exchange
students who are going to Austria or different places so I’m looking forward to
making some plane buddies.
This has been such a busy week. Trying to do everything before I
go. I’ve been seeing a lot of friends, camping, I stayed in a super fancy apartment
in downtown and shopped, and I’m going water skiing tomorrow so I have yet to
pack. And I can only check one fifty pound bag so it’s going to be hard sorting
through my clothes deciding what I can and can’t live without for a year. I’ll
let you know how that went in my next entry which will be from my new home,
Austria!
Sam
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