We made it to Beirut! After a long 10 hour flight to Frankfurt, Germany and then a 4 hour flight to Beirut we were so happy to get here and start settling in.
In a attempt to beat jet lag, we stayed up the entire night before our flight so that we could sleep on the plane and be better adjusted to the 10 hour time change. It hurt, but, I think it really helped. I only slept in about 1 hour intervals since I kept getting offered food, drinks and warm towels that make me insanely happy.
Our first flight was on the nicest airline I've ever been on. Apparently Lufthansa didn't get the memo that meals on a plane were a thing of the past and that people will actually pay for alcohol, you don't have to give it away for free. The food was strangely delicious and I watched about 1/3 of three movies (I kept falling asleep). I even got to see a gorgeous sunrise over Greenland.
In Frankfurt we decided we needed the German experience of beer and a pretzel. Worst pretzel ever. Aren't they supposed to be soft? Frankfurt, you need to represent your stereotypes a bit better!
Middle East Airlines was a totally different story. We had a weird encounter with a girl that talked to us over and over again in Spanish even though we told her tons of times that none of our group spoke it. We met another teacher for ACS and spent lots of time talking about her experiences and what she was expecting Beirut to be like. The flight was about an hour late sitting on the tarmac because there was too much traffic in the air for us to take off (?). All the children from the Middle East were apparently on this flight and they all wanted to cry and run up and down the aisles. The flight attendants looked frazzled and I was glad that I only had to be on the flight for 4 hours. Four hours of getting kicked in the back and cried at.
We landed in Beirut and were so glad to see that all our luggage arrived safely. Seattle hasn't figured it out but Beirut understands that giving people free carts for hauling your luggage around makes people very happy! We met up with a few of the other teachers and headed to the counter to figure out the visa stuff.
We had a huge welcome from the group at the American Community School Beirut and were taken home in huge taxis that drove really fast. The place was all ready for us to settle into with phone and internet working great. It's been how long since I've had real internet?! We were happy to be in our new home and even were awake enough to take a walk around our crazy neighborhood before crashing in our huge bed. So glad to finally be here!
In a attempt to beat jet lag, we stayed up the entire night before our flight so that we could sleep on the plane and be better adjusted to the 10 hour time change. It hurt, but, I think it really helped. I only slept in about 1 hour intervals since I kept getting offered food, drinks and warm towels that make me insanely happy.
Our first flight was on the nicest airline I've ever been on. Apparently Lufthansa didn't get the memo that meals on a plane were a thing of the past and that people will actually pay for alcohol, you don't have to give it away for free. The food was strangely delicious and I watched about 1/3 of three movies (I kept falling asleep). I even got to see a gorgeous sunrise over Greenland.
In Frankfurt we decided we needed the German experience of beer and a pretzel. Worst pretzel ever. Aren't they supposed to be soft? Frankfurt, you need to represent your stereotypes a bit better!
Middle East Airlines was a totally different story. We had a weird encounter with a girl that talked to us over and over again in Spanish even though we told her tons of times that none of our group spoke it. We met another teacher for ACS and spent lots of time talking about her experiences and what she was expecting Beirut to be like. The flight was about an hour late sitting on the tarmac because there was too much traffic in the air for us to take off (?). All the children from the Middle East were apparently on this flight and they all wanted to cry and run up and down the aisles. The flight attendants looked frazzled and I was glad that I only had to be on the flight for 4 hours. Four hours of getting kicked in the back and cried at.
We landed in Beirut and were so glad to see that all our luggage arrived safely. Seattle hasn't figured it out but Beirut understands that giving people free carts for hauling your luggage around makes people very happy! We met up with a few of the other teachers and headed to the counter to figure out the visa stuff.
We had a huge welcome from the group at the American Community School Beirut and were taken home in huge taxis that drove really fast. The place was all ready for us to settle into with phone and internet working great. It's been how long since I've had real internet?! We were happy to be in our new home and even were awake enough to take a walk around our crazy neighborhood before crashing in our huge bed. So glad to finally be here!
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