DAY 1 - ARRIVAL DAY

I had to wake up at 430am to get to the airport.  Of course I was tired after about four hours of sleeping, but I was also excited and nervous; I flew out from Minneapolis and even though I've been there couple times before I'm still little bit unfamiliar with it so what made me nervous was the idea in my head that I'd have to find the right gate on my own. Other thing was, if I'm not familiar with MSP airport, I'm even less familiar with Phoenix's airport as I've never been in Phoenix or anywhere else on West Coast before. Well, what I noticed was that I really didn't have any reason to be nervous; I found the gate very very easily and in Phoenix even though I had to change the terminal to find the others it wasn't too difficult. Today we had lots of free time just hanging out at the pool or wherever we wanted to so I tried to socialize with people. Then at 7.00pm we had supper and after that the welcoming orientation where we got to know all the things we'll do during this two weeks and the rules how to behave. =D I think that's all for tonight. Someone else'll write tomorrow! Stay with us, it's going to be awesome two weeks!

-Julia from Finland