I'm sitting in the airport with two girls from my trip waiting for our departing flight to Atlanta. First of all, ILM is the smallest airport ever. I got my stuff out of the car, said goodbye, checked in, checked my bag, and went through security in about 15 minutes. I looked at my ticket and there wasn't a gate on it so I just walked down THE hallway...turns out there's only 4 gates in this airport. So now I'm here super early and I'm just chillin eating the sandwich I got myself for breakfast.
It hadn't really hit me until this morning that I'm actually leaving the country. I kind of mosied around while I packed last night and I hope I remembered all the essentials. I kept waking up during the night last night thinking of things that might happen or things I need to remember to put in my bag. Even this morning it didn't seem that real. As soon as I got past the security and sat down by myself I just started crying. Just like 3 tears. But still, so pathetic. I don't know if it's because I just saw the last familiar person to me for 5 weeks or just the fact that I'm going somewhere I've never been by myself. I guess I'm a little scared. I've never been in another country and I'm not feeling that good about my Spanish speaking. As much as I'm scared about it, I'm really excited too. I love new places and I know there's a whole world out there just waiting for us to arrive! We get in at 7:25am local time, which will seem like 2:30 in the morning to us. We have a nice little layover from the time we get in Madrid until when we can catch the train that we need to get to where we're going. We're going to store our bags and then go explore Madrid for a few hours! We won't get to our homes and new families until later that night and I'm pretty sure I'll be exhausted and will probably pass out for the night! Hopefully adjusting to the time change won't be too bad.
I may update in Atlanta, but chances are we'll be trying to collect all members of our group meeting up there and making our connecting flight. Therefore, the next time I do this blog thing may not be for a while, seeing at how I'm not sure when I'll have internet next. Just assume I've made it safe and sound. But just in case, I've registered with the US Embassy already online and they should be keeping tabs on me! The impatienceness is setting in hardcore, how I'm going to make it through a 2 hour flight and then a 9 hour flight is beyond me. Luckily the nice little hum of the plane engines usually does the trick and I should take a pretty solid nap. If not, I hope they're playing good movies on the flight!
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