May 29th

           Today started very early; most of us woke up, showered, ate a little of food, then hit the road. The students all met at the Evansville airport for the first flight. Once everyone got their luggage checked in, we said our final goodbyes to family and hugged them for the last time for at least four weeks. Next was the security line; a few bags were checked by the TSA, but no people luckily...
           We waited on the other side on the other side of security for about an hour or so. Our group sat in a big blob on the floor with our carry on luggage. At one point, we were all assigned numbers for the bus rides, so when we go to places in our group.
           When we finally boarded our first plane, it was quite hot outside. The one hour flight was pretty uneventful. Once we landed at the Dallas airport, there were problems with them not letting us off the plane right away and we thought we were going to miss our next flight. Our group got our carry on bags and started running towards the monorail (?). We boarded it, waited for a short amount of time, and then continued to run to our gate; this included running down a long, broken escalator..
          Finally after getting to our gate, they told us that our flight was changed and that it was delayed for a few hours. We sat in a big group again, waited, and got some stuff to snack on. While waiting, there was a man from Germany that talked to us for awhile; he was pretty interesting.. Eventually we boarded the plane, I was shocked how large the plane was. It was the biggest plane I've ever ridden on; this one had a row of two, a walkway, a row of three, another walkway, and then another two row. We found our seats, put our bags in the overhead compartment, and then sat for the long flight.
          On this flight some of us had to sit next to others that we didn't know; I sat next to a man moving to Germany to live on the base for the army. There were many things that I think the majority of the group agreed on: airplane food was awful, it was awkward to use the restrooms, and sleeping was very uncomfortable..
                                                                                                            Miranda Buffington