So our travel days were crazy! To be perfectly honest, they were rather calm. Nothing major happened, it's just that I was up for a really long time. I'm not quite sure how long because of the time changes. But I got up on Wednesday morning, was up all day for immersion days (lots of class time talking about culture and stuff). I finished doing errands on Wednesday afternoon. I talked with Cha for a couple hours. We had a tearful goodbye. Cha is going to China next year for a long internship and she won't get home for a year. I will have graduated by the time she gets back, so we aren't entirely sure when the next time we'll see each other is. But we talked for a while and then Michelle came to pick me up Wednesday night at 10pm. At Michelle's we tried to watch a couple movies but ended up sleeping through both of them for the most part. We were trying to stay awake the whole time so that we could sleep well on the plane. By the time the second one was over, it was 3:30 am and we took off to the airport. We got to the airport, Michelle's brother took us, at about 4:30 and turned our bags in, 45.0 pounds :).
We wandered around each terminal of the airport to stretch before getting on the plane. We boarded and the captain said that we would sit on the tarmac for an hour because of weather in Chicago. I was okay with that and I got my best sleep or the whole trip during that hour. During the flight we had some people sitting behind us that talked so loud the whole time!
We walked around a lot during our six hour layover, changed our voicemail, got a McFlurry, explored the airport, took some pictures, waited for the plane, went to Chili's, played some cards.
Manchester!!!
Michelle and Heidi, these are my two travel buddies for after our England trip is done and we're off to Europe. :)
Chicago is "trying out" for the Olympics in 2016, we took a picture under the Union Jacks :)
Waiting in the airport...On the plane to England (on my gosh, I'm in England!!! AHHH!!!) It was long...I guess I shouldn't be complaining compared to groups that went to Taiwan and Australia, but I felt like it was forever, only about 8 hours. They fed us "dinner" and then put some movies on and turned the lights out. Unfortunately I didn't sleep that much even though I was so tired. It was quiet too, I just couldn't sleep. Plus the headphones were broken on our side of the plane, so we couldn't listen to the movie. Oh well, I dozed, and people watched, and walked around since nobody else was up. We landed at 8am, England time, on Friday morning, got through the border okay, which was a relief. Michelle's passport says she's male, so we were scared. It gave us a good laugh when she noticed but it was still scary. She had called the Passport office to figure it out before we left and they told her that it probably wouldn't be a big deal, but to bring her birth certificate along with her just in case.
We drove on the wrong side of the road to Huddersfield from Manchester Airport and the countryside is just beautiful!!! It reminds a lot of home, green and trees and rolling hills, random rock fences everywhere. There a tons of sheep and cows out in the fields. Everything is so charming and it is beautiful. Every building with it's architecture tells a story and you can just feel the history here, it's amazing! Friday we took a nap and then crashed at about 9pm to get early and have an all day field journey to Liverpool on Saturday, another post to come.
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