Day 1 and Day 2: Travel

I am keeping this blog to chronicle my time in Brasil. So far I have been here for 4 days. I will try to summarize my days in order in which they happened.

My friend Cristina took me to the airport. She is fantastic, she is also my roommate in Recife. I was really worried about the weight of my luggage, but to my surprise, it was actually only 44 pounds. I took a flight from Salt Lake to Chicago on the tiniest airplane I have ever been on. It was pretty uneventful.

When we landed on Chicago, I wanted to update my facebook status but there is no free internet in Chicago. That was really annoying because it’s a huge airport, what the heck Chicago, lighten up. I waited there for a while with a ton of Brasilian. They were loud and crazy, and I thought my flight to Brazil,of about 10 or 11 hours, was going to be awful.

To my surprise the airplane was the biggest airplane I had ever been on. And it was super quiet as well. We had personal TV’s, so I did what any girl would do, and I watched LOTR but then I watched UP to lighten the mood. Then I fell asleep, and when I woke up I was about 2 hours from Sao Paulo, which is where my next stop was. So, again, I did what anyone would do and watched episodes of PHINEAS AND FERB.

The Sao Paulo airport was interesting. It is one of the largest cities in the world, and no one spoke English. Good thing I knew enough words regarding airport stuff to get around. Eventually I found my gate and sat down and got online. I talked to Seth Doughty, he is adorable.

The airplane was like 15 mins late, and when we were going to board, they told us that we were all in the wrong gate and we had to go downstairs. Well, let me tell you, that airport is freaking crazy. We had to get on a bus and they drove us to the airplane, where we boarded. Then I was FINALLY on my way to Recife. About 3 hours later, I was in RECIFE.