Thursday February 10, 2011:
5:15pm: sitting in a tok tok on the way home from ministry talking to Laura. “Can you be ready for a 11:50pm flight?” “sure.” “you’re going to the States.”
6:00pm: emergency team meeting with my team to inform, delegate, love on, pray, and cry a bit with them before I left.
6:30pm: pack my junk all the while talking with my bestie Alison.
8:00pm: eat food that my team has brought me from “Noodle Man” our favorite local, Cambodian street vendor.
8:30pm: in a tok tok to the airport with Alison jammin’ out to MIA’s Paper Planes bc my tok tok driver is AMAZING and has installed a sound system in his tok tok.
9:00pm: Meet up with Laura, my squad leader and my other squadmate.
9:30pm: Check-in for our flight.
11:50: Boarding our airplane; talk, eat, pray, sleep.
Friday February 11, 2011
7:00am: arrive in Seoul, Korea. walk to gate. sit aimlessly.
9:00am: Mint Condition from Caribou Coffee
9:30: Korean Craft time in the airport! Woot.
10:00am-11:00am: sleep!
11:00am- 12:30pm: work on airline stuff; buy a ticket home and talk to friends online.
Shout out to Amy, Julie, Matt, Tim, Erika, and my Mum.
12:30pm: Lunch with my squadmate
2:45pm- 3:00pm: Korean Craft time in the airport! Woot Woot.
Met a “John” during craft time that will be in Changmai who said,
“I bet there is a Thai girl who would want Korean hair art!
. . . I wonder what she’d give me for it?!”
I then smothered him with love and told him I would be in Changmai also.
“yeah, why?!” he said.
“fighting sex trafficking and forced prostitution because it is SO common there
::smile:: Hope to see you there. Have a good day.”
3:20pm- 6:10pm: SLEEP! . . . totally drooled on my pillow. . . . also, the KOREAN AIRPORT IS FREEZING!
6:20pm: board my plane to the USA! Talk, eat, watch a movie, journal, ipod in, pray, sleep. sleep. sleep. wake up. eat. sleep. sleep. sleep. wake up. eat. brush my teeth. wash my face. moisturizer. multi-vitamins. . . . tummy starts to hurt from that last airplane meal. blah.
4:00pm: (Friday February 11th still . . . trippy how that happens). ARRIVE IN CHICAGO.
5:30pm: through customs and baggage claim. try to find where we get our boarding passes and re-check our baggage.
6:15pm: everything is settled. Walk to gate (I HATE airport security check points).
6:30pm: check email. Talk to Katie. Talk to mum.
6:50pm: Starbucks.
7:00pm: Board my flight to Minneapolis. Talk, pray, sleep. Pray some more.
8:30pm: arrive in Minneapolis.
8:45pm: through baggage claim.
9:15pm: FINALLY on a shuttle to the Hampton Inn.
9:30pm: Arrive. check in. SWANKY room. Bubble bath.
10:15: post this blog.
11:00pm: DREAMLAND. for real!
