First day of our comenius trip to Valencia, Spain (6.11.2011)

After saying Goodbye to parents, it was 05:08 when we left Loviisa with minibus, Helsinki-Vantaa airport as our first destination. Everyone was tired, but too excited to let it affect them. Talking was filled with laughter and eager guesses about near future. We practised some spanish sentences and took photoes of eachother and sooner than we realised we arrived to the airport. we finally got through all the security ans boarding checks, and quick taxfree -shopping we were allowed to enter the plane. In plane, we were served breakfast containing tea and sandwich with additional lemonade of our choice.

After many hours of flying, we finally landed to Paris airport, very aware of the 6 hours we would be spending there, just to find out that the airport wasn't really as glorious shoppingcenter we had imagined (yeah, like my suitcase could hold any more stuff!) Still, somehow, we managed to buy some souveniers and snacks for us and camp in a row of seats to chat and joke around.We read some of the magazines we bought earlier and Robin…
Well, you can look yourselves!:

After long waiting we decided to have food in a airport cafe with Anja, Riitta and Janina (Later Ville joined us too!) Then, FINALLY it was time to check in for the flight to Valencia!

In Valencia, everyone was feeling more or less utopistic. It didn’t feel real, that we really were in Spain! And the memory of the early morning felt really really distant. After taking our suitcases we met the spanish host students and teachers. My host-sister (thanks Juho for the sister/brother idea!) is Pilar Martinéz, she is very nice and fun and her family is lovely, even though the parents dont speak english. I have own room, which is actually Pilar’s, but she was so kind, that she decided to sleep with her sister, thank you so much! After giving some presents from Finland to the family, we ate dinner while chatting. I got to answer alot of questions about Finland!

Then finally, after being awake for 23 hours straight (not to mention the little sleep I got the night before!) I finally fell asleep, feeling like I was still in the plane, flying above the clouds.

With love, from Spain,

Johanna ♥