Words I will use a lot in these blogs:
Squadmate-someone on my squad
Packmate-someone who is on another team that is working with mine during the month
Teammate-one of my lovely girls on my team
I borrowed this schedule of the travel days from one of my teammates. I edited it a little bit.
Travel Day 1
10 AM- Load busses from Gainsville, GA
11.30 – Ride Marta from the outskirts of Atlanta in
12- Arrive in Atlanta
Go to Safehouse where we are staying for the night
Find one last Starbucks and some internet for the afternoon
6.30 – Worship service at Safehouse
Travel Day 2
5:40 AM- Leave Safehouse for the Marta
6:30- Arrive at the Airport
9:45 -Flight from ATL to JFK
12:30- Arrive in JFK- Spend the day on the eve of 9/11 venturing out with three other squadmates. We went to a baseball game and the 9/11 memorial.
Me, Spencer, Brittany, and Kaitlyn at the Mets vs. Cubs game
10:55 -Fly from JFK to Warsaw Poland
Travel Day 3
12 PM -Arrive Poland
Spend the day wandering around Warsaw, eating great food and ice cream!
My team in Warsaw, Poland during our 9 hour layover
10 PM- Flight from Warsaw to Bucharest
1:20 AM- Arrive in Bucharest
We were greeted by X Squad on their way to India, spent the night in the Airport- trying to sleep 🙂
Travel Day 4
7:50 -Took a Bus to the Train Station
9:45 -Took at Train to Draganesti
12 PM- Arrive in Draganesti – We were greeted by our contact Raul and he drove us to our new home for the month!!
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We only took a little nap so that we wouldn't mess up our sleep schedule. I probably could have slept til the next morning but I am glad I only took a nap because I got to go SWIMMING! For those who know me, know that is one of my favorites things and I haven't had a chance to swim much this summer. We also player some intense water polo. Some went to the grocery store to get dinner, breakfast, and lunch…maybe dinner for the next night.
Yogurt for breakfest…was the plan. If you have ever been to a foriegn country where you don't know the lanuage, mistakes are made pretty easily and often. I ate sour cream with sugar and granola for breakfest. Then I had a egg sandwich for lunch.
Went back to the church to start ministry for the first time this month. This race. I started mopping the floor and discovering that I can't get this floor clean. The workers who don't speack english laugh every once in a while but I am not sure it is directed at me. About 30-45 mins later, someone comes and tells me 'no, can't get clean, don't worry. just mop' I am then asked to scrub the paint off the floor. I start. About 10 mins later, another person tells me though translating to not worry about the paint because they are going to repaint the wall in the same area I was scrubbing.
Anyway, I try to find something else to do. 5 mins pass. One of the workers say my name and ask me to come scrub the paint. Why the contradiction? I am guessing because he liked my company even though we couln't speak each others' languages.
Halfway through the afternoon workday, one of my packmates started to feel bad, nauseous at the beginning. Then it just got worse as the day went on. Towards the end, I started feeling nauseous as well. I am going to end here and explain what happened after I got back to our house in the next blog.
