SO I HOPPED ON A PLANE AT...

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LAX 12.08.16

It was Friday, 4PM, Uncle Ben and Auntie Bing volunteered to drop my mom and I off at the airport. It still didn't hit me that I was leaving the country for 5 months! I could feel the excitement and anxiousness as we were driving to LAX. On the way there, I called the bank to let them know that I will be gone until December and they advised me to change my pin because European pin pads usually lack "0." I thought that was odd. Anyways, questions were swimming my mind. Would my expectations be met? Was I gonna make friends? Was I gonna fit in? Will I have fun? Am I going to have enough money?

A I R     C A N A D A 

Probs the worst airline I've ever flown with. So our flight from LAX to Toronto was going to be

delayed. This meant that we were gonna miss our connecting flight in Toronto. Instead of arriving in London Saturday night, we would get there Sunday morning. This made me very worried because I was

supposed to meet my friend Michael who I met at Mt. Hermon at Hillsong London and spend the day

exploring London with him. He was interning in Leeds, England and wanted to go to London for the day on Sunday. Once we got to Toronto, we were 10 mins too late to make it on

our connecting flight. SUPER BUMMED. The next flight out of Canada to London, England [people kept asking

me London, Ontario or London, England whenever I mentioned London - I didn't know there was a London

in Ontario oops] was 10 hours from our original flight. 

YYZ 13.08.16

With a 10 hour layover and $40 in vouchers, my mom and I decided to grab some breakfast. 

me feat. our complimentary breakfast and my wonderful eyebags.

My mom was texting her sisters about what had happened and her sister remembered that one of their cousins lived in Toronto so my mom immediately messaged her and asked if she would be willing to meet up with us downtown. My mom and I explored downtown since she would have to travel 2 hours to get to downtown. 

on the train for downtown 

cool installation in the airport!!

We finally went back to the airport and our flight was delayed again. TOUGH LUCK. OH WELL. As long as I would arrive in London on Sunday.

LHR 14.08.16
After hours and hours of traveling and delayed flights, we finally made it to London Heathrow on Sunday Morning.   Uncle Ega and Auntie Bubbles met us up at the airport and we took the tube to our AirBNB, which was beautiful! I showered really quick, put in my English sim card and went to Hillsong.