AIR FRANCE LOST MY LUGGAGE!
What a stressful few days! Now, I know this stuff happens 28740986 times a day, but the story behind it is what made it so frustrating for me...
We had to load the airplane from the tarmack in Paris, and I just so happened to look over and saw my 2 big red bags sitting on the baggage trolley after all the other bags had been loaded on the plane. I went over to the attendant, and said to her, "Ma'am, I believe those are my bags sitting on the trolley, can you please make sure they get on the airplane?". Well she treated me like I'm dumb and said, "Well miss, in this airport people tend to have many similar bags, it's probably not yours". Since they're pretty generic red suitcases, I figured she may have a point, but I was 99.999% sure they were mine. Regardless, I boarded the plane, looked out my window, and STILL saw them there! This time, I could see the little Canadian tags I put on them so I knew 100% they were mine, so I called the stewardess over and explained to her that those ARE my bags and that they really needed to be on the plane since I was heading to a foreign country for 6 months and I live in Canada. She was nice and went to take care of it for me (or so I thought) and then after talking to the baggage people from the front of the plane, she came back to me and said, "There you go sweety, it's all taken care of, nothing to worry about". Pffft. I turned my head for 2 minutes and when I looked back out the window the trolley was gone, so I assumed it went around to the other side of the plane to be loaded and I relaxed a little bit. After arrival in Paris airport: no bags.
Not only did I not have clean clothes, but I didn't have toiletries or my adapters for my computer so I was literally stranded with nothing! Oh, atleast the airline gives you a grooming kit to get by without your luggage; the only thing is that the makers of the kit felt it was more important to have 2 Q-tips, rather than shampoo/conditioner! ATLEAST people in rez helped me out!
Anyways the bags arrived yesterday afternoon so my story gets to the good parts now.. After getting off the plane at 6:00ish and being dead tired, I met up with my Danish buddy - who is awesome! He got me back to my place - which I totally appreciated because after that luggage mess, the LAST thing I wanted to do was attempt to use the subway system! Then since I had nothing to unload, we went directly to the intro night activity which was just a small meet'n'greet at the campus pub.
The next day I started my Danish crash course - wow what an incomprehendable langauge! There's not even a chance that I'll remember how to say "my name is..." by the end of the week!! But atleast I've been able to meet people through it. On Tuesday night, we did a boat cruise on the canals - Copenhagen's canals kick Ottawa's canals' butt! It was AMAZING! I want to do it again during the day though, because NONE of my pictures turned out unfortunately. I saw upclose the Mermaid - who has returned from her World Tour in China. The statue is actually SO small!
Wednesday night was the international buffet night, so everyone had to bring a dish from their home country. We made pancakes just so we could have the maple syrup, and nanaimo bars (which we were missing ingredients for, but still was one of the most popular dishes haha). The other Canadian people in my rez made poutine and it was actually really funny to see other peoples' disgusted faces when they heard what it was, but then how they loved it when they tried it!
My rez is primarily Canadian/American, and it's Day 4 and there's a BIG rivalry when it comes to beer pong/flip cup/beer baseball. I'm not kidding... last night in beer baseball it went into 12 innings when the Americans beat us. Geeeze, I can't even imagine the pressure Olympians have after the intensity of representing our country in a drinking game!
I have soo much to say, but this is already taking forever and you're probably sick of reading it already so I'll end it here, but just to ease everyone's mind, I'm LOVING it now that my luggage situation is settled and I'm meeting more people. My rez is great! In fact - I believe that the whole switching rez situation somewhat made us closer. We call eachother the Svanevej family now :)
Well, I'm going to try and travel Copenhagen a bit this weekend so I should have pics to come!
Miss everyone!
(Boat Tour at night, stunning lights, but pics didn't turn out well)
JT:)
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