Recent Travel Updates

So my trip to Madrid came and went and I had a blast, now it was time to get ready for three week journey to Jordan to visit my relatives. I packed and got all of my things together to  go. A mate of mine walked me to the place where the coach would pick me up to get me to Heathrow airport.  Bus came on time and all is fine, and soon we hit a patch of nasty weather : SNOW… instead of taking one hour to get to the airport it took 4 hours.

I finally arrive to the airport frantic that I have missed my flight but they told me there was a delay. So I waited.. and waited and waited. Later they told us that the plane landed in Brussels but was not able to land in London due to the weather. A few more hours later they cancelled the flights along with 90% of the flights. They also told us that the airport was shut down and to return home.

Since there were no buses or even trains to go back I ended up sleeping the night in the airport.

The next morning we waited until 10 in the morning to hear our flight was cancelled again, luckily my  uncle has a friend whose son was stuck as well and so I went to his place to sleep that night. Since I didn’t sleep the first night in the airport, I was able to get a lot of sleep at my friends place. The next morning we got up and took the tube to heathrow to find ourselves locked out of the aiport and our flight was scheduled to leave at 4pm.

To make the story shorter we were finally able to get in, check ourselves in which was not easy, and finally go through but we did not leave the airport until 7pm so I Arrived safely in Amman at 1:30 in the morning. It has been a blast so far catching up with family and I’m very blessed to have them.

I know it's been a while...

Hello,

I realize it has been since November 23, just been busy with my best mate from Canada who came to visit me. I was showing her all across London, we went on the London Eye, saw parliament, took tons of pictures, and we had a great time celebrating Thanksgiving with our american mates from all over at the Uni. We also had a trip to Dublin, Ireland which was amazing and we truly lucked out on the weather just like when i was in Salzburg a few weeks before my mate came. Don't worry I WILL post pictures! In terms of Rotary I have already had my third speaking engagement and it is really great to see how the other Rotary clubs run their meetings, etc. I helped out at the Hatfield Rotary Clubs Christmas tent at Hatfield House, and was invited to do portraits of people. It was a chilly day but many people came out and visited Santa's grotto which was beautifully decorated!

My assessment went really well with my tutor, handed in my essay two weeks in advance and now I am just working on a few things going to the studio today and a little bit tomorrow for attendance stuff.
They make you swipe in your student card here so they can keep track of you, very interesting concept haha. While my mate was here we got to see the new Harry Potter film, and that was exciting as well since we saw it in London! What an experience. We were also invited to a Rotary Jenga night where we played jenga throughout the night against each other in a tournament style. We also saw a great play : BILLY ELLIOT at the Victoria Palace Theatre, what a great play full of dancing singing and history. I enjoyed it indeed.

I also recently completed my teachers college application and submitted to my university whilst I was away, so now I must wait eagerly until April 2011 to hear of the results. In the meantime i have just been doing my rotary visits my last one for the year was to the Rotary Club of Hoddesdon on Dec 6. I was just recently in Madrid Spain over the weekend and had a lovely time with my mates. I have a minor in Spanish modern languages so I was very pleased to be able to use the language. More pictures of that as well. This blog has a slow uploading time so I can only upload them one at a time.

This week I am preparing for my trip to the middle east for my christmas holiday so running around getting last minute things like gluten free food, etc, and I still need to pack.
Well that is my update of the last 3 weeks or so. It will be 3 months since I have arrived on the 18th and I cannot wait to have a great christmas with family I have not seen in a while!

Cheers happy christmas and happy new year!