No Furbies Allowed

So, traveling alone for the first time was pretty interesting (out of the US no less). I took a plane from JFK to LAX - no big deal really. Sat next to this older couple who mostly did paperwork the whole time but held hands on take-off/landing. Pretty cute.

Funny thing was that in LAX I was checking baggage and I hear, "Rayna?" Turning around I see Mike B. from hs there. I walked over and gave him a hug then met all his AustraLearn buddies. I ended up being on their plane from LAX to Brisbane. Nervous at first because I was sitting next to this really loud girl, but she thankfully moved. She was planning on having dance parties in the aisles or something. Her and some of the other people ended up getting drunk and being loud in the morning.

It wasn't too bad though since its pretty hard to sleep on the plane. There were about 30 of them headed for Cairns. I ended up sitting with this guy Joey who was really cool. We bonded over our 13 hour plane ride. Waiting for the plane to be taxied to the terminal we were going through some of the pamphlets which included one of those circles with a slash through it which was covering a picture of a Furbie. Interesting.

After customs and being searched for explosives I ended up getting my flight changed to go straight to Townsville instead of Cairns so I had to leave Joey, but ended up taking this old foreign lady that couldn't hear very well to her boarding site. In that whole process I met Abby who I hung out with for 6 hours waiting for our plane. She is pretty cool and reminds me of someone from home (Mary in CT). I really liked how easy it was talking to her. We people-watched most of the time and met some interesting people including a JCU graduate and this guy named Sumner who is 19 going to JCU for 3 years, but previously spent a year and a half in Thailand teaching Scuba.

When we got to Townsville the guy picking us up found us right away, "all the Americans come out wearing jackets and long pants." He drove me, Abby, 2 UMiami kids - Ross and Jen..)Ross reminds me of Dan C) , and one other girl to JCU. We had a lot of fun joking around with KJ (as we nicknamed him, dont know his real name).