Thursday, August 23, 2012

Day 1!


   Day one of study abroad has been such a breeze....hahaha not!!! I got to the airport around 3 hrs early for my flight and had dinner then went through security with about 2hrs till boarding time. Then then announce that the plane is late so we will be boarding 20 min later than scheduled. 20 min later they come over the speaker and announce there is a problem with the wheel and that they are waiting for inspection. they do this and say 30 min later that they still don't know what the problem is; at this point 1.5 ish hours have gone by. then later they say that they are waiting for approval from london for us landing later than planned, another 40 min goes by at this point it has been 3 hrs and they give us meal vouchers so that we can get a meal like we would if on the flight. by the time we get back to the gate they tell us that the flight is cancelled it is now 11:30pm. they then take us to go get our bags and then to get a new flight as well as hotel and travel accommodation. By the time all of us got our bags and got to the end of all the passengers to get new tickets it was 12:30. then we proceeded to wait in that line for 2hrs before getting to the front of the line. then it took all of us another 30 min to get on a new flight for 8:50 this morning, so there was no point in going to a hotel cause it was in 5 hrs across the airport. Then we have to get across the airport and we flagged down a bus and he drove us to the terminal thank god, we go there and had to wait in line for another 30ish min. then when we got to the desk the lady was very rude and made us pay for our baggage again and it was $60 which was 12 more than virgin charged which i need to get refunded. then we went through security at around 4:30 am and afterwards got breakfast and have been sitting at the terminal gate since which smells horribly like feet and vomit. our flight leaves at 9am and we will not arrive in london till around 9pm there time having miss the whole first day