So lets start this series of unfortunate events. Get to the airport, wrong terminal (thanks STA travel). Get to the right terminal and notice our seats are separate from each other when they were supposed to be together (thanks Delta/KLM) and the plane is full. Start crying when saying goodbye. Try to see if we can get our seats together, not happening. Get seated next to a crazy old lady from Arizona going to Nairobi (we'll get to her later). And also get seated to a nice old man that actually switched seats with Jenelle because he was SO kind (first thing that went well). The plane is the crampiest/ tiniest space ever! Got to enjoy watching "No Strings Attached" (loved it), and some "Sex and the City" (carrie in paris!) and brushed up on some French on a learning French game. Oh, yeah, didnt sleep the entire 9/10 hours. When it was time for b-fast on the plane I accidentally spilled my orange juice on the crazy lady next to me. I liked her up until this moment because she swore I did this on purpose and yelled at the top of her lungs "SHE JUST SPILLED HER DRINK ON ME!! HELP! SHE JUST SPILLED HER DRINK ON ME!" Well that made me feel great....ugh. The stewardess was nice and understood and said it was bound to happen because of the small space.
Anyway, our plane landed in Amsterdam late (because of "heavy fog"), and Jenelle and I had about 20 minutes to get to our other flight, to Paris. Well, after going to the other side of the airport, not only did we have to go through customs there, we were led to the wrong gate (C5), and then to another (C11) and then to another (C7) and then finally to the right one (C4), thanks Amsterdam airport (so disorganized). All the while I'm wondering if our baggage made it on such a short amount of time given to transfer over to the other plane. Anyway we board the plane, I am now a row ahead of Jenelle. And finally got to sleep about an hour. I wake up and I realize I'm finally almost to Paris (yay!) and then I see the Eiffel Tower as we are starting to land (such a great feeling after all the stress).
We finally arrive in Paris, and both of us are really exhausted and feeling kinda sick at this point. We get to baggage claim and our baggage didn't make it to Paris with us. Fucking fantastic right? Well Jenelle found where to go to let the airport/airline know our baggage didn't arrive. We then gave them all the information, our ticket numbers on our luggage/what it looked like/ and what not. Well it turns out everyone that had that connecting flight did not receive their luggage. And with their "sincere" apologies they gave us a bag of toiletries and a shirt, and told us not to worry. Anyway luckily I packed ALL my underwear in my carry-on and a couple changes of clothes. Jenelle had a couple underwear in my carry on and a couple shirts in her carry-on. We shared a taxi with some other students we met from the same flight and from our program and that was good. We arrived finally to the ACCENT center (school) and checked-in and also told them about our situation, and they were so helpful and actually currently taking care of the luggage situation. Anyway we lugged our carry ons over to our dorms a couple blocks away and finally got to rest.
Currently we are still waiting for our baggage and it is supposed to arrive today (hopefully it does). We got to explore the area a bit, went to a general orientation and got a pre-paid phone.
Being here is amazing, despite all the went wrong. I cant believe we're actually here! We went over to see the Bastille, since we are living in the area and got to see what shops and what not are around us, and even shopped at the supermarche and at a home store (casa). As soon as we get our luggage we will be going out and exploring a lot more, in the meantime we are resting and hoping we get our luggage soon!
Anyway, we will post pics later and update on more later!
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