My roommate for the trip just asked me what I thought about my first international trip. I realized I said some things to her that I didn't include in the first two posts:
- Free booze on international flights is pretty cool
- Sleeping on international flights is pretty tough (for me and my long legs), but I do like the sleeping mask they give you.
- There isn't a water fountain to be found in the Charles de Gaulle (Paris) airport
- When we were waiting for the bus, we had cabbies try to make deals with us (a group of 9) to take us to our hotel. Our professor warned us not to take a cab unless we wanted an adventure and/or didn't mind getting ripped off. We stuck with the bus.
- I mentioned the traffic before, but seriously, it's chaotic. But at least they are little cars, and no SUVs like in the States.
Other thoughts/occurrences:
- I peed in a hole in the restaurant last night. The toilet, that is, was a porcelain hole in the ground.
- Beer is measured in centiliters. 70 cl is a very large beverage.
- My bizarre sleeping habits have translated well and I'm not sure if I'm going to have trouble with jet lag. I went to bed at 11:45 Turkish time, and woke up at 6am, felt fine, but went back to sleep, got up at 8, and feel amazing.
- Our professor missed her flight out of Dulles. We got an email from her around 6pm asking one of us to leave a European power adapter for her at the front desk because she was going to get in around midnight and had lost her luggage....
Time for breakfast...
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