September 3rd
Early this morning Nick came into my room because he had to leave for football before school started. So, around 5:30am he comes in, gives me a hug and we talked for a bit, giving me his brotherly advice. I gave him about 10 hugs and actually started crying. I don't know what I would do if anything ever happened to him, because I am only leaving for 3 1/2 months and I was having problems with that.
Our relationship has grown a lot more over the past month or so as well (if that is even possible with how close we are already), as Nick now has a girlfriend, and has developed an entirely new perspective on some things. It is so funny seeing him go through some of these stages, not only to look back at how I felt when all of this started happening to me, but also to see him as the cutest, most perfect boyfriend that a girl could ask for. And Amber is a really sweet girl and I'm really looking forward to getting to know her too. :)
Our relationship has grown a lot more over the past month or so as well (if that is even possible with how close we are already), as Nick now has a girlfriend, and has developed an entirely new perspective on some things. It is so funny seeing him go through some of these stages, not only to look back at how I felt when all of this started happening to me, but also to see him as the cutest, most perfect boyfriend that a girl could ask for. And Amber is a really sweet girl and I'm really looking forward to getting to know her too. :)
We got to O'Hare and were early so Mom, Dad, and I all sat down and waited till 4:00 when our Director, Diane Bywaters, also one of my previous drawing instructors, would give us directions and details about what we were supposed to be doing. I felt kind of bad, because as soon as we met up with the group it got hectic really fast, and I kinda just had to leave and check in my baggage and get all those details out of the way. So I didn't exactly have the most time to give my "proper goodbyes."
However, I met up with Rachael, a girl I met on the trip before I left school, and Cody, another music major that is on the trip, who I will be going to Carmina Burana with. We didn't know each other before now, but talked online a bit this summer since we will be going to the show together. I was really excited because we all really hit it off aboslutely great and have been 'pal-in around' ever since. Our flight was delayed, so that allowed us a little more time to talk and get to know each other too.
Our flight was supposed to be delayed an hour because i guess some luggage fell off a cart and hit an antenna or something like that. It was funny though because everyone was crowding around the windows taking pictures because there were fire trucks and cars with lights all over the place outside. I felt kinda silly doing that, so I didn't, but that also reminds me of something else AWESOME about these two girls... they BOTH like to take LOTS of pictures... we are going to get along just fine... We didn't even get on the plane yet, and already had taken quite a few. awesome. :)
When we finally did get on the plane, Rachael was sitting on the opposite side, however me and Cody were set right next to each other. Another girl, Kallie, who was in my design class last semester, was our third person in our row, so it was good not to have random annoying people sitting by us. My ticket was the window seat, but Cody had never been on a plane before and was super excited about it, so I let her take my spot. I'm glad I did, because she was getting far more excited about it than I would have been. She is super cute! We started talking, and somehow got on the topic about the fact that I used to live in Gurnee, IL. She says, "that is where my boyfriend lives, actually, he lives in Lake Villa, about 10 minutes away, but we just say Gurnee because people know what that is." So I start freaking out, because that is the small little town that I used to live in when I was in IL. Turns out he is a year older than us, and I'm sure we went to elementary and middle school together. Talk about a small world.
Also exciting- airplane food. Yea, thats right... airplane food. Our flight was with Air India, so it was cool because all of the flight attendants were wearing fancy Indian dresses. It may have just been a distraction as to how crappy the airlines are in an attempt to make people lessen the fear for their lives.
Anyway, first they came out with snacks and drinks, but later brought us our dinner, which was this fancy chicken dish, salad, yogurt, water, tea, bread, and some fancy dessert that we thought was some crazy textured Indian food, but later determined was actually tapioca pudding. I wish I would have taken a picture. It was quite fancy. After that we all went right to bed, woke up in the "morning" (about 3am our time) and had breakfast.
Customs went pretty smoothly. All we had to do was get our passport stamped. Didn't stop a single one of us. From there we got on a bus and have been driving from the airport in Frankfurt to Munich ever since. We stopped in a roadside travel stop thing (or whatever you call it... technical names are overrated...) and got a snack. They had this vanilla pudding dish with strawberry and rubarb on top... thought you might like that Dad. It was delicious :) So here we are, driving to Munich, four hours later... and it is now pouring rain... At least the first part of the drive was pretty. Oh well, hopefully it will be nicer when we start to walk around and start sightseeing.
Anyway, first they came out with snacks and drinks, but later brought us our dinner, which was this fancy chicken dish, salad, yogurt, water, tea, bread, and some fancy dessert that we thought was some crazy textured Indian food, but later determined was actually tapioca pudding. I wish I would have taken a picture. It was quite fancy. After that we all went right to bed, woke up in the "morning" (about 3am our time) and had breakfast.
Customs went pretty smoothly. All we had to do was get our passport stamped. Didn't stop a single one of us. From there we got on a bus and have been driving from the airport in Frankfurt to Munich ever since. We stopped in a roadside travel stop thing (or whatever you call it... technical names are overrated...) and got a snack. They had this vanilla pudding dish with strawberry and rubarb on top... thought you might like that Dad. It was delicious :) So here we are, driving to Munich, four hours later... and it is now pouring rain... At least the first part of the drive was pretty. Oh well, hopefully it will be nicer when we start to walk around and start sightseeing.
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