Welcome to Australia. There's a cyclone coming.

Hey everyone,

 So I made it to Australia okay. The flight was soooo long. I started out at Minneapolis, flew to Denver where I had a 2 hour layover. I found my gate which was literally 1000 feet away from my arrival gate then got some food. Then I flew to LA. When we were disembarking I starting chatting with the girl next to me. Turns out she was at the United States Air Force Academy in Denver visiting her brother. I told her I know a couple guys who go there, and she said her brothers roommates were from Minnesota, turns out its the same people! So she called them up and we all chatted for a few minutes, laughing over the coincidence. After that I got my luggage and went outside to the bus to change terminals. SCARIEST RIDE OF MY LIFE! I thought I was going to die about 5 times in less that 5 minutes. When I finally got to the right terminal I couldn't figure out where to go. I ended up wandering back and forth with my enormous bags for about 10 minutes, until I found a worker who was free. He then proceeded to direct me into the doors 2 feet away... Finally I got checked in for my flight to Australia!!! I went up through security, and found my gate (20 feet away from security on the right.) After I went to find some food when I ran into 3 girls also on the AustraLearn trip, and so we decided to get Chili's and relax since we still had 5 hours until our flight. After eating way overpriced airport food, we went to our gate where we met more people from AustraLearn! We chatted for a few hours, and even got some advice on what to say and not say in Australia from a real aussie. Finally we loaded up for out 14 hour  flight to Brisbane. About an hour into the flight we had dinner. The menu made it sound amazing! Let me just say, they are very crafty with their word choice. The options were beef short ribs or mahi mahi. Well I hate fish so guess what the 2 guys next to me got... the fish! It smelt awful! (The smell actually work me up from 3 rows ahead of me!) After dinner I watched Despicable Me then fell asleep. I had a window seat luckily so I had something to sleep against.

This is my personal T.V. showing we just crossed the International Date Line.

Right before breakfast I woke up and watched an episode of Glee and then watched The Switch during breakfast (A choice of Raisin Bran or Zucchini and Potato Frittata with grilled bacon and mushrooms. ) Finally we landed in Brisbane.  From there I was supposed to take another flight up to Cairns (pronounced cans) but there was a Cyclone (that's what they call hurricanes here, because they spin the other way) on the way so we were taken off the flight and are now staying in a hostel here in Brisbane. We have done so much since we got here. The first day we were at the Brisbane airport for about 4 hours waiting while they figured everything out. We played fuzzy ball to learn each others names and bond. (We all scoffed at first but it really worked!)  So since starting my journey I was at airports or on airplanes for 30+ hours. Not so much fun, but definitely not their fault.