My traveling started on Sunday when my family, Jordan and I drove from Kelowna BC to Vancouver BC. We spent the night in Vancouver and I had an amazing final dinner made by Lori Chapmen. The next morning, we had to get up at a horrific hour: 4:00am.
From there, I had to say goodbye in the airport. It was harder then I thought it would be. Even though it was sad, excitement became my main emotion when I got onto the first plane taking me from Canada to Minneapolis. I love love planes. Even though they aren't comfy, they always make me excited because it means I'm going somewhere.
The 3 hour plane ride was a quick one because I sat beside a couple who was coming back from Alaska, a place I've never been. They shared there pictures of glaciers, otters, whales and these types of birds that look like penguins but they can fly! and they can use there wings underwater too! I think they were called puffers or something. I really want to see one. I guess that's something else to add to the life-list.
The second plane (Minneapolis to Atlanta) ride was also very quick. This time it was because I managed to read an entire book between the 3 hour lay over and 2 and a half hour plane ride. Once I got to Atlanta though it was a huge rush to get to my next flight. I had an hour and a half to board my next flight and the Atlanta airport is like the same size as the one in London. It's crazy! I had to get on a subway car to get to a different terminal. I probably wouldn't have made it there on time if it wasn't for a polite southern gentleman who asked " Do you need any help there Miss? Y'all are looking pretty lost." Yup. Even drawled with the southern accent. I kind of felt like I had been dropped into a South and Western movie haha. The man was really nice. He had a 5 hour lay-over so he took me to the right terminal and even walked me to the gate. You gotta love old fashioned chivalry.
By the time I got onto the plane to go to Buenos Aires, I was so overtired, I wasn't tired at all anymore. I ended up sitting beside a guy from Atlanta who travels to Buenos Aires a lot for work. He was a little shocked that a "young gal" like me was going to Argentina for a year. He then proceeded to tell me all about Argentina. He was really nice. We ended up talking for a couple hours then I managed to sleep for about 2 hours.
Upon arrival 2 of the nicest people met me. I lucked out though, one spoke English. If not, I would have been very very lost. They stayed with me for the 4 hour wait before I got onto the bus. They got me my ticket, fed me, told be about Mar del Plata and taught me the words : Doucha (shower), Karrma (bed) and dormir (sleep). And told me to tell my host family that.
I then proceeded onto the 6 hour bus ride. I met a nice girl there from Mar Del Plata that spoke english and gave me her email and phone number and offered to hangout some time. I'm glad she was there because watching the landscape was only fun for about 30mins - the landscape here is flat (like saskatchewan flat) and I passed around 18 wheat fields, 100 cattle farms, 7 sheep, 5000 cattle (at least) and a couple hundred horses. I also was surprised to see how many palm trees there are here! Also, the area reminds me a lot of mexico. Especially passing through the outskirts of Buenos Aires and seeing the poverty there (it took us 20mins driving on the highway to get out of Buenos Aires).
When I finally reached my host family, I was insanely happy. They are really nice! My host sister is going to Oregon and she speaks English fairly well so she is currently translating anything the parents are saying that I don't understand (which is pretty much everything, unless they are asking if I want simple things like "awa" a.k.a water). I didn't meet with them much though because after a quick tour of the house, I had a doucha then fell into karrma. Finally, I slept for 14 hours.
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