Traveling

First flight of the trip. LAX to SFO

I got to sit in the back row like a school bus. It was literally a row and my seat was directly in the center of the isle. The gentleman sitting next to me peaced-out so now I have three seats all to myself….. Ahhh yeah. Good start to this long journey.


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After the second uneventful flight Dena was there to pick me up from LAX. Luckily too, that place is scary! Traffic and people everywhere, but it sort of prepared me for what was to be in India. Having In-N-Out be my last American meal I set off to find a surprising uneventful journey to India.

:Last picture taken in America.

It is also the plane that took me and another student in the program all the way to Delhi. 

Flight number 4              Chicago to Delhi

Fourteen hour flight! And it turns out that my current roommate was on the same flight and I had no idea. Bummer too because I ended up playing Tetris, watching glee, and wishing I could sleep the whole time. We had those cool screens that shows you the where we were on globe. 
We even went over Greenland! 

  

Handmade map of our journey:

 

 Flight number 5          New Delhi to Bangalore

The last flight was spent sleeping and honestly not much stuck in my memory considering the 24 hours of traveling undertaken at that point. The kind Indian man sitting next to me tried to converse but I'm afraid all he heard was "nnhhnmm *sleep talk* hmmfjfjhmnm". At that point my beanie went over my eyes indicate that zombie mode had been initiated.

Upon arrival in Bangalore it was surprisingly easy to find the Iowa students. Although, they were the only white kids standing in confused blob outside of the exist. It was a relief to find that they were easy to talk to and just as worn out as me. 

After two hours of waiting for the final students to meander out of the airport doors we piled into a white bus and undertook a 4 hour ride to Mysore. After 30 hours of traveling we were relieved to arrive at the dorms. 

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That's all for now.

School starts tomorrow and hopefully I will be able to report what has been going on around here before class begins. Once classes start it might be harder to update this blog...

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