02 September 2006
All right! Finally, I'm on the Internet. My credit card wasn't working so I had to call to set it up, it was annoying. It cost me 60 euros to connect for 7 days...oh well, better than paying 10 euros for two hours 8 times! Hopefully I can find some cheaper access somewhere else in the future. I can finally get back to you all. It's about 7:45 am here (I must still be jetlagged, to be up this early!)
The trip here was okay, I sat next to a very entertaining Englishman on the plane, who sat next to an American girl my age named Ally. We had some fun times on the plane, and at the end the Englishman and I got to be the very first picture taken for her "Europe scrapbook." Then once I got to Manchester we made some more "travel buddies," including a girl named Christina who was on my flight to Paris. (She was meeting a friend here, and I was hoping they would offer me a ride to my destination, but hélas, they didn't. So I had a very difficult time looking for access to the internet, since the letter they gave me about arrival didn't have the address of the place I'm staying, and I needed it for the taxi! (Everyone else had this same problem, and luckily, my efforts saved me about 10 euros, it seems.) Although it was a bitch of a time trying to get the machine to work, it didn't accept my credit card so I had to get money from the atm, and then when I tried to pay with a 20 at the bookstand for a bottle of water they wouldn't take it! Bastards. I got them though, I had been so thirsty that I started drinking my bottle of water before I bought it. So when they took it away, they couldn't sell it again. Muahahahaha!)
So finally I got to the place I'm staying, which is a sort of "welcome center" for study abroad students from all around the world. I'm sharing a room with 2 other people, (who I knew previously from Tulane.) I got there, and since I was extremely tired (having slept 3 of the past 40 hours only,) I complained about everything until I finally went to sleep. (Why is it so hot in here? How do these damn lights turn off? These pillows are weird! Why don't the showers have doors? This damn toilet is obnoxious! Those bastards at O'Hare took my sharpies and sharpie highlighters! Stupid security!) etc. My roommate Kristin was amused (she's been here for 2 days and is over her jetlaggedness.)
Then when I woke up again my friend Allyson and a kid named Russell were in the room
and we conversed, before they went to dinner and I took a shower, then met them at dinner. Then we had a pointless meeting about nothing (I don't even remember what was talked about, nothing I didn't know) and I went back to my room to sleep some more (though I was interrupted by Allyson who wanted to hang out some more.) Finally at about 9 (this time, I'll always be referring to this time now when I talk about time, which is 7 hours ahead of central time. So it being 7:57 here right now means it's about 12:57 Central time.) I slept 9 hours about and woke up at 6, and now here I am emailing you all about nonsense. Sorry for the mass email, but I was informed by several people to keep in touch, OR ELSE....heh. Well, I'm off to my forum now--I finished a couple of magazine articles on the plane and I have to post them. Hope you all are having fun in non-France! muahahaha.
Love, Laura
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