Journal Entries

                                                                                                                        8/23/12
Sitting at my gate in MSP can’t quite believe I’m finally headed out!                          
So a lady just walked by and asks the guy walking beside her “Are you just saying that because you’re a leader!?”, he’s like “nooo”.
There is a tall Asian lady walking around here!
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Somewhere over Reindeer Lake in Canada.                                                              
  I found the girls and one of their brothers in the Chicago airport. Chicago went REALLY well. All those prayers meant something! : )
  I ended up in the middle of the middle row on this plane, not quite my plan but I’m still happy with it. Will be sooo nice to just plain be there though. I’m so tired. I had like three and a half hours of sleep last night.

By the middle of the flight I was beginning to get upset with the young Korean man who thought he had to fall asleep and lean waaay over towards me. I was pretty sure I was going to have a permanent twist in my back from scooching away from him. By the end of the trip I was very very happy to just be off the plane already. I only slept for about half an hour the whole twelve hour flight. 
 On the other side of me where two sixty something year old Asian ladies who Grandmothered me the whole flight, that was lovely! They spoke just enough English to be able to talk a little, and ask me “how much they charge you?”  : ) I paid the same as one of the ladies, and a little less that the other. “about two thousand baht less, I not buy from them the next time!” 
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Somewhere over Russia, when we passed Alaska it made me wish I could just land there. (I’ve always dreamed of going to Alaska, and I was sick of the plane by then).
  I opened my computer a while ago and my picture of Lance and I came up. I’m gonna miss him a lot. Four months suddenly seems like a looong time!
            
One of the girls just passed me and gave me a big wink. I think she’s gonna be fun. I think maybe Sara is a quite girl, not really shy, but quite.
There is still another FIVE HOURS till landing! : P
“I think I can, I think I can!"
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We are at our gate, sprawled on the floor sleeping.I couldn’t sleep anymore though. There is a little taxi car thing that drives around in here playing Fur Elise of all things. And they were playing Tchaikovsky on the plane.
I wish I could sleep the other girls look so comfortable!
 It feels weird to be the odd one here. Koreans all over the place! :  ) Which makes sense, considering we are in Korea!
A flight just unloaded and there are floods of people walking past staring at us. These people don’t mind staring. The people here who are not Korean are European, judging by their clothes.
Tacked in here I had the comment “I had brown rice tea on the plane, quite something I tell you what!”.
(We found out later that our gate was directly above us, someone stopped to double check that we knew what we were doing).
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In Thailand! Got in around midnight last night. Browns picked me up with  “Hi! Welcome! Welcome home!” Was sooo nice to see someone I  knew, even just a little bit.
I slept till noon today and am tired now. But I’m going to stay awake till tonight.
Sara and I walked down to Mae Wahns to see the babies, they are napping so after they are up we will go get them and bring them back here.
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And while we wait to go get them, I write. : )
The people who said that it is hot here were right, Sara even said that it is hot today though. We are hiding in her room, away from the heat.
I’m seriously considering sleeping some more, which is a dumb idea, because I'll never get back on schedule if I do.
Dru’s get here in a few hours to pick me up and take me to their place. They are on some sort of school trip. Can’t wait to see them.
  Listening to piano music, can’t quite fathom not having a piano for this long, oh  well. Lisl has a guitar, maybe I can learn to play that.
I should get off of here, Sara is puttering around.
Till later! ~Francis~