15-5-11 @ 10:28a
Warsaw, Poland
This trip is going to get interesting fast. We wasted no time in creating trouble on the road and Tekla’s truck broke down in Clinton, Iowa – transmission issues. Luckily, a recent Coe College graduate, Chelsea, lives in Clinton. She and her father were extremely helpful and after about two hours we had a courier van coming to pick up five of the group and drive them to O’Hare. The rest of the drive was smooth sailing and we arrived in Chicago with no further issues. In fact, the timing of our trip actually worked out perfectly – we spent absolutely no time waiting at the gate for our flight.
On the plane, I sat next to Lucas – our professor’s son. He attends Ripon College in Wisconsin and is joining us on the trip to Serbia. Real cool kid, I’m glad he’s coming along. I look forward to getting to know him more as the trip continues. We, along with Keegan, ended up teaching Stacia how to play Hearts on the flight before spending a large portion of the trip playing Rummy and watching the in-flight movies...we may or may not have forgotten to sleep, whoops.
We landed safely in Warsaw, Poland (where I am currently writing this from). Interesting to note, the security here is fully armed. Each guard had a side-arm and it wasn’t uncommon to see a sub-machine gun. Definitely different from what I’m used to in the USA. Anyways, we’ll be boarding the plane to Belgrade here soon so this entry is getting cut short.
Ripon was totally my second choice college. Also, I find it funny that security at the airport isn't armed in the US, but they definitely have police with sub-machine guns at Viking's games.
ReplyDeleteGlad you're traveling safely =)