4 and a half hours after arriving at the airport I’m finally on a flight to New York! Not sure what will happen after that, but we’ll worry about that later. Hopefully we’ll eventually find our way to Cadiz, Spain, where I am spending the next month of my summer. I’m participating in the LBAT, a program designed for students who want a Spanish minor to earn it while traveling abroad. I’m only doing half of the program (the Cadiz portion) and hope to finish it another summer.
The trip came off to a great start, when I arrived at the airport and found out that there was a torrential downpour in Chicago, where we were supposed to board a connecting flight to Spain. Long story kind of short: we figured out that our flight wasn’t going to get to Chicago in time for us to meet our connection, so we began the stressful process of finding a new option. After going to a different gate to find an assistant, splitting up our group, going to a different terminal and going to the ticket counter to get boarding passes and boarding the plane as the doors were closing, 4 of us are finally headed towards Spain. The rest of the group (I think?) was transferred onto a non-stop flight to Madrid. We’re headed to JFK (I’ve never been before…. I’m excited) and then to Madrid, where we plan to meet up with the group before our connection to Cadiz. Then again… that’s just the “plan”.
Shout out to my parents for suggesting that I pack an extra change of clothes in my carry on. Who knows what happened to my luggage. I should have taken better care of the tracking number….
WT Tip #1: If you can book your own flight, do it.
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