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FINLAND: Pre-Trip
In the effort of being a GOOD BLOGGER and also in the effort of keeping some sort of chronicle of my journey, I'm going to make a short pre-trip blog to tell everyone what's up (hi mom). Even though we leave today, I actually left for Minnesota on Monday, to meet up with Zae and hang out before officially making the puddle jump. After realizing that I left my hairbrush at home -- not a major issue, as it could've been my passport or something -- and after a quick journey to the Mall of America and several Monk episodes, we feel like we're decently ready to go. So, hats packed (all six of them, I'll take a picture later), we will leave in about two hours for the airport.
Am I nervous? Kind of. I haven't made a long flight since junior year of high school, almost four years ago. And I still remember the horrible sleepless night of the Newark -> Glasgow flight fiasco, which was hideous. There was no sleep that night. Just a lot of watching the map with the little plane on it move slowly across the ocean. It...pretty much sucked! But hopefully this trip will go smoothly.
We're departing MSP at approximately 3pm, making one stop in the United States, jumping the ocean, landing in Zurich, and then finally arriving at our destination of Helsinki sometime tomorrow. The time difference is approximately 8 hours from CST (7 from Oberlin). This time tomorrow I will be somewhere in the FUTURE.
Now I must take a shower and start getting ready. Gotta make sure that I have everything before we leave! More tomorrow, when I'm sleep deprived and horribly cranky. That'll be a fun one. (But I'll be in Finland so that totally makes up for said crankiness!)
Am I nervous? Kind of. I haven't made a long flight since junior year of high school, almost four years ago. And I still remember the horrible sleepless night of the Newark -> Glasgow flight fiasco, which was hideous. There was no sleep that night. Just a lot of watching the map with the little plane on it move slowly across the ocean. It...pretty much sucked! But hopefully this trip will go smoothly.
We're departing MSP at approximately 3pm, making one stop in the United States, jumping the ocean, landing in Zurich, and then finally arriving at our destination of Helsinki sometime tomorrow. The time difference is approximately 8 hours from CST (7 from Oberlin). This time tomorrow I will be somewhere in the FUTURE.
Now I must take a shower and start getting ready. Gotta make sure that I have everything before we leave! More tomorrow, when I'm sleep deprived and horribly cranky. That'll be a fun one. (But I'll be in Finland so that totally makes up for said crankiness!)
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Trips are horrendous, haha, in a sense that, while I do love to travel, I hate the actual TRAVELING part. And speaking of sleepless nights, this reminds me of the first day my friends and I got to London. Since the flight was afternoon our time, and the plane ride was... 7 hours? So when we landed it was morning. Needless to say, no sleep was had that day, and when we got there we only had time to put stuff in our rooms before the tour started, haha. So yeah it was fun dealing with timezone change + no sleep. I FELT LIKE I WAS FLOATING!
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