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August 25, 2001
We made it!
We made it! We left our rooms in LA at 3:30 Thursday morning, and got to our flat around 9:00 Friday night. Long trip. But everyone got here and all the luggage too! The only loss was our minds. We made a funny scene as we waited in Helsinki for our last plane to Budapest. We were 14 groggy, frumpy people stumbling around as we tried to wrap our frazzled heads around the enormity of what was about to happen to our lives.
The flat that we're not going to live in very long is great. It's fairly large, in great shape, and except for a newly discovered leak in the shower, everything works.
I still feel like I haven't really realized what I'm doing yet. I think it began to hit me as I rode the loud, smelly bus from the airport through the dirty streets and graffiti covered buildings to our flat. My surroundings felt very foreign. Being somewhere foreign feels very different if you know you're only visiting as opposed to knowing it's become your home. I could feel the tingling of fear, homesickness, and loneliness but luckily, my groggy travel-filled head couldn't really process anything. I'm sure it'll hit me soon. I'll let you know about it when it does.
Posted by neal on August 25, 2001 06:00 AM