So as you all know I left July 12th at like 5:00 in the morning to leave for Texas. I was going to Texas for three days for training. So I get to the air port and im all excited im really doing it im finally getting to go on my missions trip, well we get there and where I have a later birthday and was not 15 yet I had to pay a flight attendant to follow me around, So they made me be the first to get on the plane. So I say my good byes to my family and I get on the first plane that I have ever been on in my hole life going on a two week trip and I had never been that long or far away from home, so I get on the plane and the put my in the very first seat, and I was getting all nerves knowing that I would not be able to go home that this was really it I was really leaving my family for two weeks to go on a missions trip. I was starting to get really freaked out worrying about anything and everything, well between already missing my family and being nerves about my flight I started to get sick feeling, so I was just sitting there praying that I was not going to up chuck every where. So the lady sitting beside my decided that she wanted to talk so she started asking me all kinds of questions and I was nice and talked but the whole time I was sitting there thinking lady would you please shut up before I throw up all over you,. So we get to the next air port where im suppose to switch planes well they make me wait until everyone is off the plane and then they walked me to the gate guard and he made me wait while he called someone up there to come get me, so I was standing there praying the whole time that I was not going to throw up everywhere. So someone finally comes up there and then I got to ride a golf cart all over the air port not fun at all (hahaha) so the lady takes me to the brake room place and makes me wait with all the flight attendants, so im sitting there plum sick feeling and they are talking about some famous person who was in the air port, which I had no clue who it was. Well then one of them looks at me and then there watch and said oh you were suppose to be at your plane three minutes ago, so here i am ready to throw up and they make me run through the air port to get to my next plane, well needless to say I made it in time but I was really angry. So I get on the plane and get my seat and I was so tired I wound up going to sleep, then the flight attendant wakes me up to ask me if I want orange juice which made me even madder. So I finally get to the air port in Texas and they take me to the place where you get your lost bags, so I sit in there with the gate people and waited and waited and waited, well finally one of the guys going on our trip saw me sitting in there and came in there and told me where everyone was, so I had to ask him to go get one of the leaders to come and sign for me so that I could leave (I felt like a package or something that just kept getting tossed around.) So I finally get to go over to where everyone was and I signed in and then I found out the my bags got lost and were now in Detroit, I was getting so frustrated I did not get why my trip was being to hard when this was what God had wanted me to do. So they tell me that they will get my bags later that day and they will put them in my room, so then they lead us out to this huge charted bus and the give us all a bottle of water, well of course we pretty much just chugged it down because it was really hot out side and we had not had anything to drink in awhile, do we chugged it down to find out that the bathroom on the charter bus did not work so after drinking all that water we had to drive little over two hours before we could go to the bath room (and I was sitting there thinking great this trip just keeps getting better and better.) So we finally make it so the place we were staying in Texas which was a big college so we go inside and get signed in and all out papers filled out, and then they send us to sit at a table with the other kids that were going on our trips. So I get to the table and sit down and of course im the more shy person who is not good at walking up to complete strangers and making friends so everyone else is sitting there goofing off talking about how excited they are, and then there I am sitting near the end of the table by myself looking at the map of the place trying to figure out where I was staying. So random people just started coming up to me trying to make conversation so i finally meet some of the people going on my trip and then I got to meet my team leaders and project directors. So I called home and lied and told my parents that I was having a great time so far, well it was later that night and we were walking back up to where we were staying to find out that where I was staying was all the way at the top of a hill way back in the woods the highest place up, so I walk up the hill to find out that they are short beds and my bags arnt there, so I went to my project director all upset well we were standing in the middle of the parking lot and she looks at me and says just cry go ahead cry and I look at her and go what are you talking about, and she bust out laughing at me and started telling me about her first trip and how her bags had got lost and how much she hated the first few days, well I wound up braking down and telling her how awful my day had been and I just stood in the middle of the parking lot and cryed, well you would have thought I would have been embarrassed but it helped a lot, and no sooner then we were done talking a bus pulled up with my bags I was so happy, so they found me a bed. And we were staying in these big like green house thing that had a bunch of bunk beds in it and 60 or 70 girls shared that room, well I got a bottom bunk to find out the only thing to keep you cool at night in the 114f. weather was one fan and all the air blew on the people on the top bunk, but I was just happy to have a bed and I finally went to sleep after about an hour of just laying there.
so im going to wright these blogs in the days I was gone because its to much to wright in one night, I will right the next day of my trip as soon as possible.
until next time,
~Jessica~
