Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Finally, Cyprus!

3 flights, 3 countries, 3 airports, 3 security checks, 3 trains, 2 buses, and 20+ hours of travel....finally here!


I got to Chicago with about 2 hours until the plane is supposed to leave and i go and ask a guy where british airways was, he looked at me...eyebrows raised...took out a map and explained that i would have to leave the airport get on a train go through secrutiy again, and then try to find the gate (kind of like going from the lindburg to humphrey terminal, but they have trains). Ahhh, so did that fine. That flight was good for the most part, decent food, good movies, plus british airways gives you free wine! There was nobody sitting next to me on my flight from chicago to london, so I got to lay down over a couple of seat and...well let my eyes rest, miss night owl here didn't get much sleep. Then i got to London, and my connecting flight was supposed to leave in less than 2 hours! So, I "walked" (aka speed walk) down this half mile hallway to get into the actual airport, go around the maze that is heathrow airport, stand in line forever to get through secrutiy AGAIN, take another train to a different terminal, walk forever, and finally made it! Yes, i made it, just to find a bunch of other students from my trip hanging out while I am dripping with sweat.





Anyways, I'm here! We got our apartments, which are nice and big, and we have 3 balconies! The top picture is our apartment complex! Then its our kitchen, living room, veranda, and view from my room, and you can see the university - its the bulidings in the back with all of the windows. 

Anyways, once we hauled all of our stuff up to our apartment we walked to the university (which is about a block away) and had some good, traditional cypriot food...pizza hut. We got a brief run down of some things and our schedule for orientation week - it is packed. We had the rest of the night and the next day to unpack, get gorceries, etc. only problem was that none of my roommates were here yet :( so I had a sleepover with the girls next to me! it's really weird being here, i feel like i'm on a weekend vacation, until i look at the schedule and realize that it's 4 months, crazy!

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