It all started with the craziest Traveling I've ever done in my life when it comes to the airports!
It all strated on September 14th when I left ORU for 12 days, headed for Kandern, Germany. I was planning on Leading worship for a school out there called Black Forest Academy (BFA) for their Spiritual Emphisis Week (SEW). I was so stoked to have this chance. There are about 300 youth that would be attending each morning chapel service monday-friday with two sessions on Wednesday and Friday. We were planning on snowboarding one day in the Swiss Alps and hit up Paris for a day on the way back home.
So Stoked!
Ok... So i take off on the 14th and go to the airport only to wait for 3 hours, after the plane was supposed to board, until I hear that the flight has been canceled due to weather in Atlanta, my connecting spot. This was a huge bummer cause I had to figure out how I was going to switch my ticket to get to Germany and I was supposed to lead worship for the church service on that sunday (it was friday). So I went back to ORU and had a fun night back on the ORU campus with some friends and expectations for the positive trip the next day.
The next day I leave early for the airport, excited for my flight to Europe and reuniting with my friends from back on the west coast. I fly to Atlanta with no trouble and a smooth flight but then it gets rough... My new flight in Atlanta was scheduled to leave at 5:35pm on the 15th (I arrived in Atlanta around 2 pm) and arrive in Paris around 10:00 am on the 16th. This meant that I wasn't able to lead worship at the Church that sunday so I was totally bumbed out but that's ok at least I will get there for the week... Finally, after 3 and 1/2 hours of waiting, we board the plane to head to Paris... after 1 hour of sitting in the plane while it is being fixed in the loading dock, as the air conditioning system was broken, they announce that everyone needs to get OFF the plane and it wont be another 4 hours until they will know if they can use the plane! that sets us at 10:00 pm and I will Deffinitly miss my connecting flight to Germany from Paris...
after standing in a GINORMOUS line for over 2 hours and being on the phone most of that time with Delta I secure new tickets that will land me in Germany on the 16th but not until 10:00 pm... This was just not going well! hahaha it was cool though cause I met a lot of Sarcastic, old people that were actually quite funny.
final we board and leave the Atlanta airport around 11:00 pm on the 15th and arrive in Paris at 2:30 pm (Paris time; about 7 hours ahead I think)... from there I wait another 3 hours for my flight to leave at 6:00 pm and arrive in Kandern, Germany at 8:00 pm.
Finally!!! I was there!!!
Oh... but wait... where's my luggage?.... oh man.... I'm not surprised... my luggage is lost and so I am out of close and all the set lists and some equipment that I needed for the week for worship. PLUS... the guitar that I am supposed to use and lead with... is gone missing and they have no idea where it's at...
Well that was the traveling to Germany and honestly it was rough, but awesome!... I left out some things like how one of the guys going with us realized at 1 in the morning the day we were supposed to leave that his passport had expired... haha that was funny...
I'll keep you updated on the trip and how everything is playing out! It's going to be so fun!
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