Stuck but Still on My Way to Rome
So, hi everyone. As my family can attest, I was freaking out when I left for my trip. In fact, I wasn’t very excited about leaving at all. I know that I will have fun but I’m just extremely nervous about everything that I have to do by myself over here for the first time. And, to top everything off, it seems that thing after thing, event after event, keep happening to me on this trip so far and I am not even in Rome yet even though I am supposed to be and probably would be through customs and on my way to my hotel by now.
First, the financial aid office at the University of Wyoming messed up everything and told me the wrong things about what I still had to do in order to get my financial aid check. Considering I started doing all of that clear back in March in makes me really mad that there were any problems at all. In the end, I had to go down to Laramie on my way down to the airport to try to figure things out. The lady that I needed to talk to was supposed to be in at twelve and so my dad and I went there to talk to her at twelve. We ended up standing outside her office waiting for her to show up until after one. She was nice in the end and actually helped get my check released but I still have to deal with some things through email with her while I am on this trip. After that was done, my father and I headed off to Denver.
Everything else was fine until I got to the gate in Denver. It was then, I checked the board and my boarding pass and noticed that my flight was delayed fifty minutes. They could have told me this when I checked in considering that it was even posted on my ticket. What is distressing about this is that I only had two hours at Hethrow in London to get from the terminal my flight arrived at to the opposite side of the airport to another terminal. We didn’t even make up anytime in the air and I was stressed that I wouldn’t make my flight. I rushed as fast as I could and I was glad when I got through security pretty fast. I went down to the international lounge (before this point there was no postings about plane times and gates) and looked for what gate my flight was supposed to leave from so that I could run and catch it. And there it was flashing on the board. CANCELLED. Yep, that’s right, my flight from London to Rome was cancelled!!!! No I’m freaking out because I have no idea what to do, whether I would have to stay in London over night, or when I could get another flight. Hethrow is kind of a mess, to some degree, and I couldn’t find any information counter. Finally, I asked a security guard and I ended up having to go back out and through security again and then right on the other side of security, British Airways had some desks. I did this and got a new flight but it doesn’t leave until 5:50 p.m. from London. This meant that I had over four hours to sit around in the international lounge.
It hasn’t been too bad actually though. I took about a two hour nap, walked around, and did some people watching. However, I am starting to get bored and I still have an hour until I leave and about thirty minutes until they even tell me what gate I leave from. So, I decided to take out my computer and right this post. Well, I guess I will go back to being bored. Hopefully, nothing else will go wrong today or for the rest of my trip.
Later….
posted by Attakid8 @ 4:22 PM
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