LA Update!

Hello everyone! A lot of you have been asking for an update so I just couldn't resist! I'll tell you about my day..We woke up at about 6:30 and my sister Danielle and brother in law Roger came over so we can stop over at IHOP before my departure. Got the strawberry banana pancakes (is that detailed enough for ya?) and we went to the airport, which was an extremely heart wrenching time. Dani got me a new hat which I've been wearing all day (it says NY) and I had to say good bye to my family. I was walking down the lonely corridor and realized that I was really on my own for the first time - I have to do everything myself and so far it's a liberating feeling.

Here's a quick little run down of how my travels went:

These were my bags before I had to put the camping backpack into another larger suitcase to balance the weight out!

Newark Airport

Chicago Airport

My super heavy bags which I have to lug around myself!

LAX

Filling out some forms..

New buds 

More new people..

Our hotel for the night

Our cool sign

Walkin to dinner

So basically tonight I took the wrong shuttle and just did a little lap around LAX before getting off and taking the correct shuttle to our hotel. Tonight was the first time we were all meeting each other which was really fun yet difficult to remember everyone's names and where they're from but one IT educator is from Ramsey NJ!! How crazy is that?? Small world, after we handed in all of our paper work we were given $120 for the time between tonight and tomorrow so that's pretty cool. It's only 9:32PM here in LA but it's 12:31AM back home which is what I'm used to so I'm pretty sure I'm going to go to bed now.. Just wanted to let you guys know that I'm alive and well and made it to LA, 2 flights down, 2 more to go.

Tomorrow is Staging where It's just hours of meetings and what not. Then tomorrow night we're leaving for New Zealand which is a 13 hour flight and then a 3 1/2 hour flight but is OK because it's with all of my new friends I'm looking forward to get to knowing. I really miss everyone back home so much but looking forward to making new friends here, take care everyone and feel free to write comments on my posts and stuff, in fact, I encourage it. Alright good night guys I'm not sure when I'm going to have Internet again but I'll post as soon as I do and my phone is probably going to be deactivated after tonight so no more phone number! Message me on Facebook or send me emails to stay in touch.

 Lukim yu!