- Depart from Palm Beach International Airport. In the middle of boarding, they had to re-assign about 10 rows of seats. Apparently a different plane came in and the seat numbers were different, so they had to re-assign about 20 people. There was the token grouchy woman that yelled at the gate agent who then proceeded to be snubbed as the gate agent one by one re-assigned us. Karma’s a biatch.
- Arrive in Hotlanta! Although it ain’t so hot… I caught a cold breeze as I exited the plane. Counting my lucky stars that I’m going to the southern hemisphere where it’s about 85*. Sorry to make you jealous.
- Sit down at the gate to wait out my 4-hour layover. I plug in, boot up, and see that I have to pay for Wifi. WHAT? Oh well. I cranked out a TON of content. It is incredibly the amount of stuff you can accomplish when you aren’t connected to the internet. Stay tuned for that content to show up soon…
- Four little Argentine boys walk over to me and in broken English ask me to charge their iPod. I plug their iPod into my charger, and the four of them sit down around it like a campfire. They watch and ooh and ahh at it and watch while it charges. They eventually break out some cards and start playing a game right next to me. I wanted to ask them what it was, but I was too enthralled in just watching them. Their mother came over to me to thank me and apologize. I said it was no problem, (as these boys were absolutely adorable). We chatted for a minute about me going abroad to Argentina, if she can charge the iPod on a PC, and how long it will take. I even told her my deepest darkest iPod secret: turn down the brightness to make the battery last longer. As a mother of four boys with a 12-hour flight ahead of her, I could tell she enjoyed that piece of advice.
- After sitting at the gate for 4 hours, I finally [almost] board. I hand the guy my ticket and he says “you don’t have a seat”, see that woman. LIKE HELL I DON’T HAVE A SEAT! After 15 grueling minutes of not being told why there was a problem, I finally got a seat on the plane. Albeit a different seat, but a seat nonetheless. I sat next to a nice woman from Argentina. We chatted and she gave me tons of advice and her business card.
- Land in beautiful Buenos Aires! I got a remise from Tienda Leon that I had previously reserved. The nice guy at the Tienda Leon counter showed me to my driver, Hugo, and then Hugo showed me to the cajera (ATM). Hugo and I had the nicest drive to Buenos Aires (about 40 minutes). No, I didn’t have a novio, I truthfully told him when he asked. He said that could change in 5 months…
airplane flight, airport, Argentina, atlanta, buenos aires, study abroad
Mon, Feb 8, 2010
Argentina, Lifestyle