….well
im sitting at my gate in Chicago after spending the last 14 hours here, and the
next flight will board in about an hour and a half….time to go home J….this
has been one of the most amazing rides of my life…absolutely the best 4 months I
could have ever dreamed up….now its time to go home and start the next chapter….that
although, whenever I get home…
…my
flight plan from Torino to home was a long, to say the least….1.5 hour flight
from Turin to Munich, 2 hour layover, 9 hour flight from Munich to Chicago, 14
hour layover, now a 3.5 hour flight from Chicago to Salt Lake City, 1.5 hour
layover and finally a 2 hour flight from Salt Lake to Spokane……last night
thankfully was a cinch J….i took the flight from Munich to Chicago with two
other girls from my program who live here….because I had chosen to take the
group flight which was round trip from Chicago, I had made another reservation
for roundtrip from Spokane to Chicago, unfortunately the group flight got into Chicago
last night at 6:30 and when I was booking my tickets the last flight heading
west to Spokane was at 7:20 and seeing how there would be no way to do customs,
passport control, recheck the bag, and change terminals in 50 minutes so I had
booked the next flight which happened to be at 8am this morning….so well I hung
out all night with my nearest and dearest friends to fly out this morning…..
….yesterday
was so incredibly hard to say goodbye….i never wanted to stop hugging my family
and leave…after a lot of tears leaving Giacomo at school then MORE tears at the
airport saying goodbye to Ely, I told her I loved her and yelled Ciao Mamma as I
was heading through security…that was one of the hardest things that I have
done….what a gift that family was for me….there were so many times that I can
remember think before I left the US, what if I don’t like them, what if they don’t
like me, what if im not comfortable….there were so many worries…but once I got
there, I knew I had no reason to be scared….even back when Ely and I couldn’t really
even communicate I knew I would love living there….
…and
I did, I truly truly did….i now have two homes, one in America and one in Italy…and
as I was leaving all I was thinking is how soon can I book a flight to come
back and see them….I miss my family so much already and I cant wait to see them
next…..but its looking good for them moving to Chicago soon J….thankfully
the crying passed after I spent a few good minutes bawling my eyes out silently
in the bathroom before going to meet up with my friends flying to Munich….and
ive been pretty good since…
…although
I am missing A TON of sleep so who knows I may just break into tears at any
given moment ….Not only will I be jetlagged by 9 hours when I get back to Idaho
today, when I land at 12 PST it will be 9pm Torino time…which will mean I will
have been awake for 39 hours straight….the struggle is being felt a lot right
now….because my flights last night were a different reservation from todays, I had
to leave security with all of my bags all night….so I felt that I had way too
much with me to sleep at all…..so basically I am just forcing myself to stay
awake long enough to get onto my flight to Salt Lake and then I can pass out
for 3 hours…..I cant wait…..
….then
it will only be one more flight until I am home!!! I am so so so excited to see
my parents and be with them again….now that I have been back in the states for
a half a day I am just ready to be back in Idaho…..but in 8 hours I will J
I totally cant wait to go home…
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