Departure!

Hey,

I can't believe it's here already. INDIA!
Yikes. I don't know if I'm ready. I'm not sure I'm ever going to be ready. But, ready or not, it's happening! Now. Because even if I'm not ready, HE is :)

So, here's the game plan. I get up at 9am tomorrow to drive down to Omaha. I catch a flight at 1:15pm and arrive in Chicago around 2:45pm. There I'm going to meet up with Andrew Smith who is a student from Bryan College and who's team I will be traveling with while in India with Augustine Asir. Once in Chicago, we'll have about two hours before we catch our flight at 4:35pm to Delhi, India. From the looks of this, we'll be in the air here a VERY LONG time. Like, forever basically. We arrive a long time later at 5:45pm THEIR time in Dehli. Sooo I don't really know how long this will translate, but I've heard it's close to a 21-ish hour flight. So yeah. 

Ok, this might be a good moment to let you all know that I struggle to grasp time changes. I think the time difference between Iowa and India though is approx. 10 1/2 hours. So, if it's 7PM here in Iowa (dinner!), then it's 5:30 AM in India.

Once in Dehli, Andrew and I will wait for our 8:00pm (their time) flight to Chennai, India. We'll get in to Chennai around 10:45pm their time and have like a 12 hour layover in the airport until we can catch a flight to Madurai, India. I don't really know what time it'll be once we get there.. But I'm going to pretend jet-lag is just a myth, so it shouldn't be a problem!

I'll try to let everyone know asap that I've arrived safe and sound. Thanks for all your support, people!
You rock! :)

- Jenni