Thursday, October 4, 2007

Really the end this time

So its really the end this time, after two months of not writing im going to finish my blog...yes...yes i am

Firstly allison, mother, father, other annon. friends who read this...maybe mike but chances are he forgot...im finishing it okay...leave me alone about it now!!

My journey home was definitly an interesting experience.[can i just interject and say how confused i am now that this site is in English...all the names of all the tabs are different and i cant find my way around] So off i went to the airport after waiting for an airport bus. They have a guy who actually just hangs around at the bus stop to load the buses...he speaks no english...frantic hand gestures however are universal, and after almost getting on the wrong bus i was off to the airport at about 7pm!! The airport it turns out is quite a bit outside of the city and there was of course an accident on the highway which meant traffic yay....but that didnt relaly matter considering my flight wasnt for another 12 hours...So i finally made it to the airport and fumbled my way through the maze that is Charles Degualle(SP). I was sitting on the inter airport tram when this frantic french women started talking to me...idont know if i am a magnet for such things or how that works but all the crazies talk to me. She was telling me about her vacation and how her plane leaves in 10 mintues and she "wasnt sure if she would make it" ...she didnt make it

I then spent half an hour in line at macdonalds with my giant backpack on with a group of people from spain...that was not fun i was sweating so hard by the time i ordered and then i had so much stuff i almost launched my fries across the cafeteria. And then i roamed the now almost empty halls looking for prime sleeping/reading location and settled into a nice big comfy steel chair beside a outdoor water fountain and eyeing a crazy looking man that was sitting opposite me i read my book...and then got bored....then panicky because looking at the maps i had no friggin clue where to go to get my flight....in all fairness that airport makes no sense whatsoever and my directional ability is crap...so after walking around the posted signs i ended up going online trying to get someone to help me....dan da na na! allison the savior got online....random money based internet as well....metal small keys..slow service...anyway she managed to find out that i was leaving from hall 6...which was not what they called it in the airport it was some crazy name...
Anyway so i figured that out and just half slept half stared at the wall until 5am when i had to go and check in. At check in i met a American who was working in France and she informed me that she had just come from the same district that I was in annnd she had just come in on a shuttle...which means there was no need for me to have slept in the airport...nice...
So then i get to the desk and they had no idea why my second ticket(connection from Frankfurt to Canada) wasnt booking...fun...so now im panicking and going through security and then waiting..fallling asleep again in the airport. Then i get on the plane and i make it to Frankfurt in lots of time annnd no customs this time, which is amazing and then i need to resolve my ticket issue. So i get to the ticket counter and the reason they couldnt give me the ticket was that Luftansa was not the aircraft on that leg but it was now Air Canada, and im not going to lie i was buummmed out!!! All i could think of was my crappy Air Canada flights with no free food or anything....but then....i notice the ridiculous amount of people on the flight and when i get on the plane i understand....NEW PLANE its the new 777's and holy crap....best plane ever, we go pillows blankets amazing food, personal enternatinment system....i watched Children of Men, blades of glory and ____________ i think listened to entire albums of current artists AND then i watched some music videos, and then i watched the office and other tv shows...how amazing is that!?!?!?
The flight was simply amazing!!

Arriving back in Canada was really really odd, first of all...whats with all the english!! Another major point was customs...everyone went on break as soon as i got in line which ment that it took me almost a half hour to go through customs!! Then my baggage was the last off the plane...and after being awak for 72 hours i was really ready to get my bags and smack the chick behind me hitting onthe security guard!!!(WHO WAS ON BREAK)

Then i came through the fancy dancy doors and i saw my mom and that my friends is the end of my Summer in France!!!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

First of all, I am pleased you finally finished. I hadn't checked in quite some time, but was presently surprised when I checked on a whim just now!

I forgot about the crazy airport panic... Good times. But hey, we got it sorted out in time!

Congratulations on finally wrapping this up. I am now content.

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