I can’t say my flight experiences have been good ones to and from Argentina. Both were overnight, bumpy, involved little sleep and poor service. From Miami to Chicago, I asked the flight attendant for a tissue when she came with the drink cart and she told me to go to the bathroom (instead of giving me one of the napkins in front of her). We’re leaning toward the Argentine service level here.
From Buenos Aires to Miami, Cally, Jordin, Jess and I took off at 8:30 p.m. Dinner arrived around 9:30, and by that time…I was unfortunately asleep. Instead of tapping me, giving me a meal or asking the person next to me, I was just skipped. No food. Having not eaten since 1 p.m. that afternoon, when I woke up to the food cart 10 rows behind me, I was pretty upset. I pushed the flight attendant button three times and no one came back. FINALLY when they PICKED UP the trays, I begged for a plate of food and got one. But gosh forbid they come and pick it up, right? So I scarfed it down with the flight attendant awkwardly standing there waiting for it as she was on her last garbage check. In the process of begging for dinner, the woman next to me spilled her Coke on my blanket. Fun flight.
Current events
As journalism students, we always have to be up on what the most important current events are and how they affect us as students, humans and a journalism school. My GoogleReader news gave me a lot of updates this summer on what was going on, but Google Argentina could only link me to so much information in English.
Stacey compiled this list of the top 5 news stories we need to read up on upon returning home to be updated on American society.
1. The current debt and default situation
2. The Joplin tornado
3. Casey Anthony
4. Twit-pic’d NY politician
5. Murdoc phone tapping
Benefits of being back in the US
Back in the US, everything is going to be so easy. We realized this at the Miami airport when we could speak English to the Customs employees. Everyday errands and necessities can be completed in our first language. Making reservations, ordering dinner or planning trips will be a breeze since we’ve had so much experience doing them…in Spanish. Driving across Missouri seems like nothing after flying and bussing through all of Argentina, and our worries have simmered down after what we’ve accomplished here.
Having a cell phone back will make me less of a Facebook, Twitter and Skype addict. Jordin and I laugh at ourselves because our friends from home probably think we’re crazy always logged into all of our social media, but it’s our only way to contact our friends in the United States. Anytime you would randomly text a friend a question, request or funny story, we would have to message, email, Skype chat or tweet at these friends to get a hold of them. If I wanted to Skype my parents, I’d Facebook chat a friend and ask them to call my house and tell my family to log on Skype. Now, I’LL just be able to text or call them! How fascinating communication is!
As much as I’ll miss Buenos Aires, I look forward to applying my experiences and lessons from my internship, 12 credits of classes, daily urban commutes and international travel stories to what I do in Chicago and at Mizzou. Thank you to anyone who followed my summer experiences here!
My roommates and I on our couch on our first day in Buenos Aires...
....and our last
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