Okay so I arrived at the airport at about 9:15am along with my Mom, sister, aunt, and baby (not so baby) cousin. I was met there by Susette and her husband then we went and checked my two bags and went up stairs. Also as I was walking into the airport I forgot my Blazer at home so my wonderful Aunt went back and got it for me. Up stairs I met by Ashley and later on John, we talked and took a few photos then my aunt was back an hour later and we took pictures of me with the rotarians and I got a few with my family.
The Rotarians left and my family and I went to go eat at the Burger King for lunch. After lunch it was approching 11:45 so I said my final goodbyes, got a few more photos, and finally left to go through TSA. I didn’t think I was going to cry I was too happy and excited to cry. When I reached the sign that only let ticketed passangers pass that point (for TSA) I turned around and started bawling. It came all at once. It had finally hit me that I was leaving.
Once I back at my gate i had about 10 minutes until we started boarding and the thought that was going through my head was “What the hell am I doing?” I’m pretty sure that thought came to my mind like 50 million times since then (I later found out that I wasn’t the only one who thought that). I boarded my plane for my flight to Alanta which went smoothly. Once I landed I only had about 50 minutes till my flight left so I was really trying to hurry. I got someone to help me but he only helped me up to a point then i waited like 7 minutes for someone else but she was at the other end of the airport so I just left because I was at the point where I knew where I was going. I went down the escalator and caught the train it took about 3-4 minutes to get from the A concourse to the F concourse. Then I had to take two different escalators to get to the F floor I needed, then I got there and of course my gate is all the way at the end of the floor. So I ran because I could see there was only about 6 people left and I wouldn't make it if I walked, then I got in line and bam. Their system crashed. It took bout 30 minutes to get it back up which makes me upset that I was such in a hurry. But i knew my luck, that that would happen.
My flight from Alanata from Amsterdam was okay. The guy next to me was a bit big, the lady in front of me put her seat all the way back, and the man behind me was playing a game most of the flight and he hit the screen that was on the seats really hard, so it felt like he was kicking it. We landed at Amsterdam at about 5:15am and then I met up with Sophia and Ian who I was also on the flight with. We had to go through customs and then as we were walking to our gate, we ran into McKenna and we all walked back to Starbucks where Ian and I got a drink. They spelt my name Kayley haha. We sat down and just chilled and then sometime later Sophia went and got something to eat. Then after Sophia ate we went to our gate where we sat with 4 other rotary exchange students who were also headed to Finland, then slowly more cam and we built up to 10 of us.
My flight from Amsterdam to Helsinki was horrible. I got the worst cramps and I felt like i was going to die. But luckly it was only like 2 hours. Landing in Helsinki was great! It felt nice nd so surreal that I was finally in Helsinki after 17 hours of traveling I was there!
Once we were finally off the plane we waited about 5-10 minutes for our luggage to come out on the carousel. Some of us got the carts because we just had too many bags for us to roll. Once we got our bags we left the terminal (?) and were met by Rotarians and our oldies <3 We were led to this sitting type place were all of the other inbounds who had arrived before us sat and we were able to meet lots of others! After about 30 minutes it was time for us to head to the bus that would take us to Karkku! I sat in the back with Maddie from Canada, McKenna from NY, Sanne from Holland, Sam from Canada, and a few others who I don’t remember. The bus ride from the airport to Karkku was a 2 in a half hour drive so it did suck quite a bit but we tried to make the best out of it.
After talking and naps and such we finally arrived! We got off the bus and headed in to have a little something to eat. After eating we were given our key and took our bags too our room. I was in room 12 with Kellar! We unfourtuntly got the smallest room, we both had four bags, and the room had a bug problem >.< We sorta kinda unpacked and went back to the lobby where there was wifi! We didn’t have anything planned for the rest of the day so since people were still arriving. I took shower and hung out in the lobby most of the day/night.
-Hailey
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