1. The food is excellent and pretty healthy.
(i.e. Salmon with hollandaise sauce and penne pasta + amazing desert)
2. The people are super friendly and/or they just have really great customer service!
3. Speaking of which, BA is amazing in the way they handled this. Free room and board whilst displaced-in a SNAZZY hotel I might add.
4. Things are SOOO different-for instance the hotel.
a. I could not figure out how to keep the lights on. I would slide my card in a slot and they
would stay on for about 10 seconds so I would run and do what I needed to, slide the card
again, run again, slide the card again…finally I figured out if I left the card in the slot, the
lights would stay on!
b. Also in the hotel I learned bathrooms are quite different. I noticed this in Ireland but it had
a greater impact on me here. After not having used the restroom on the 9-10 hour flight I
picked up my luggage in. Once I did that, I could no longer use the restroom because I did
not want my luggage “destroyed” as they often announced they would do if I left it
unattended. So following the flight, I spent the next 8 hours standing in “queues” with my
trunks and junk. After 18 hours of not using the restroom, when I got to the hotel lobby and
checked in, I left my luggage and hastened to the restroom, but when I got in there, I could
not figure out how to open the stall doors so I just pretended I needed to wash my hands.
After that, I just went to the first floor where my room was located.
c. Which by the way the first floor is not the same thing as the ground floor. The first floor is
literally the second floor.
5. This is definitely one of the nicer hotels I have stayed in so that is fun!
6. The roads are narrow, hence the small cars.
7. They use different verbiage which I have given examples of thus far.
8. Everyone is all dressed up everywhere they go, or so it seems.
9. My favorite people to visit with are those coming from India.
10. My family and friends are amazing! I'd still be at the airport right now if it wasn't for them!
Thank you! Especially Momma and Robert! And thank you African friends for keeping up
with me!
11. It’s a lot easier than people might think to make friends in the airport! But watch the movie
Human Trafficking before you do that, just so that your guard is UP!
12. Americans seem to be so far the most impatient and obnoxiously rude people so far. :( Not
me though- I hope!
Just a note: I thoroughly enjoyed the day, watching and listening to everyone! It may sound odd, but as we were taxiing out from Houston, I had a feeling that things would be a bit different but that it would be alright. Because of that, I was not frustrated at all and was able to really enjoy such a different environment! Next time though, maybe I'll have someone with me so I can take care of business when I need to! Lol!!
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