9-5-2008 London Heathrow International Airport

These past few days have been a rush. I arrived at NYC's JFK Airport. I went to go get my bags, but of course, the day before my first international flight, they loose my luggage. So I filled out the necessary paperwork, told her where id be staying and she said it would hopefully be there by tommorrow. So I tried not to worry about it. I found the Airtrain to take me to the rental car/ hotel shuttle pickup spot. I asked a man with TSA and he pointed me in the correct direction. If i hadnt asked him i would have been going around in circles. So i was happy that i asked. The hotel shuttle picked myself and about 5 other AFSers up and took us to the hotel. When I got there I registered with AFS and told Renee, the AFS registrar, that my bags had been lost. She was very very nice and took care of everything. She called delta and got everything worked out, updating me on where my bags were every once in a while. I met so many AFSers. NYC was the departure gateway for Italy (65 people), Spain(30),Portugal(15), Turkey(10), South Africa(2), and Ghana(4).It was really just a review orientation of what i already knew. Ghana's group is i guess pretty cool. Mari is from Maine, Wesley is from Washington state, and Alyssa is from Oregon, and obviously me. I had to share a hotel room with a guy from NC and he was going to Italy. I think his name was Jeff. He was a nice guy, but it was kinda akward to sleep in the same bed with someone you dont know. hahaha. At about 24:00 I got a call from Renee telling me that bags were downstairs. I was soooooooo relieved!
We were the last to leave from the hotel on Thursday, which was about 19:00, and our flight was at 22:30. They flight was decent. I slept a good bit, and they served good food for an airplane. It was a 6 1/2 hour flight, the longest flight ive ever been on. Luckily I kind of begged my way to an isle seat! haha. Well my flight is about to take off from LHR. So Take Care!