Day One

I got to the airport this morning in Austin just before 5 a.m., only to find out that my flight was cancelled from Miami to Santiago! I was supposed to fly from Austin to Chicago, Chicago to Miami, and finally Miami to Santiago, but American Airlines was able to find me new flights from Austin to Dallas to San Juan, Puerto Rico, and THEN to Santiago!

What was weird was that the man sitting next to me on my flight to Puerto Rico turned out to be a man studying theology at Dallas Theological Seminary who was getting married in Puerto Rico this Saturday. We got to talk about what I was doing in the Dominican and I got to help him with his very basic Spanish workbook. Had I not been on that flight, I would have never gotten to have that conversation.

After a three hour layover in San Juan, I got on a very small, very Dominican American Eagle flight to Santiago. The plane was old and tiny and hot and everyone was yelling on the plane so I got a little nervous. But I got here without a hitch, all my luggage was waiting for me, and now I am at the White's house! Ruben, who runs the Makarios farm, picked me up, and his little daughters are three and four years old and already have put their fingers all over my computer screen. I love them instantly though!

I wish I could have taken pictures, but it was dark when I got here and slightly rainy. Pictures to come!