Oh my Disney Joy!! I have been here no longer than two full days and already done so much!!
It all began with over 30 hours of travelling from my home, to Birmingham airport, saying goodbye to mummy and daddy (totes emosh) then flying to Paris airport all by myself - what a grown up I am! Then after an hour delay at Paris, finally got onto the plane to go to Orlando where I had the emergancy door seat and so had the biggest amount of legroom space you could get, for the girl who has the shortest legs on the plane! I sat next to two french teenage lads who were in a group of about 30 - god help whoever where in charge of that lot, but my two new plane friends were fine, and we watched the same films together to laugh at the same time, i helped them fill out their blue forms to get into the US and they gave me their brie from their meal, which make me smile with joy and they laughed at me. I got no sleep on the plane, there were too many films to watch!! But 9 hours later I landed in Orlando airport and as soon as i got off and into the airport, I could smell the air-con and grinned because I had arrived in AMERICA!
I found Andy who had been there for hours,we then found Elle who wasn't long after me. I managed to find and meet James and Pippa quickly who had come together from northern ireland and they got the shuttle to housing, but we stayed to wait for Lauren and Kate. After lots of texts and running around the airport, we now know Kate was on the otherside of that massive airport and Lauren was stuck in a long immigration que. The joy when Lauren turned up with her suitcases was epic as Andy had then been in that airport for something like 8 hours waiting for us all. We found Kate the next day at housing as she very bravly made her way to housing welcome meeting on her own. But after getting into the shuttle, having to get out and get into a taxi because they said it would be quicker and the same price, getting the the vista way welcome centre with free cookies and fruit, jumping up and down squeeling, being shipped over to the Commons by Justin, they best and by far the most entertaining american we have met - so far - and letting him carry my suitcase to my room which is on the top floor of building 7 & in The Commons (his idea, not mine, phew!) I finally arrived in my new home with aircon and en-suite etc....we then had to go to Walmart....that will take up a whole new post of it's own.... *shudders remembering the experience*
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