Lithuanian Soil. Finally.

After just about 24 hours of driving, flying, and hanging around in airports, I've finally arrived in Vilnius! It's been really neat trying to communicate with people here. Surprisingly, I am not even scared. At all. Yeah, people are angry and not friendly haha. And when they find out your American, they just won't give you the time of day. BUT, it just makes me laugh :) And kind of makes me want to talk to them even more. Anyway.
My flight to Chicago was a piece of cake. 3 1/2 hours was nothing. I was supposed to meet up with a friend during my layover, but it didn't work out and I was really bummed out the whole time. Darn :/ The flight from Chicago to Sweden was hellish. It was through the night mostly, but it was impossible to sleep. I just can't figure out how to sleep on planes! It drives me nuts!! My neck gets all sorts of kinked and my legs become restless. And I had the window seat, which was pretty cool, but I had to pee real bad and the boy in the aisle seat was asleep...So I had no way to get out. I wasn't about to wake him from his peaceful slumber. So yes, that flight was nothing but uncomfortable. They took pretty good care of us though! We got complimentary blankets and pillows, headphones, there were movies to watch, and we got free water bottles. Which was nice after spending $12 on TWO water bottles in Vegas. Yeah, I said two. Ridiculous. They fed us dinner and breakfast on the plane. Dinner was mystery meat with rice and mystery vegetables hahhaha. Not too bad though. some creepy crackers, with yummy cheese. DELICIOUS bread & butter, salad, sprite, AND AND this sooo yummy caramel cheesecake tart thing. Oh so good. Then breakfast was a ham & cheese sandwich, with greek yogurt & granola, and orange juice. I was pretty pleased with it!
We almost missed our flight to Sweden because our layover was so short and we had to go to passport control and security again. So by the time we got to the plane we had about 5 minutes left. I was disgustingly sweaty and unattractive by the time we arrived here. And I don't know how to work this shower..But it's pretty great here. I love it so far. It's incredibly beautiful and lovely. We went into a catholic church and the architecture was astonishing! I couldn't believe that human hands could actually create something that perfect. I don't know what I was expecting, but it's NOTHING like I expected. It's so...normal. It seems so typical for an American to think that any foreign country is dysfunctional. Like really, they actually have grocery stores here? And cute clothes?! Whoa. Hahaha. I'm a typical "Ugly American" is what they call it. Our first meal here was McDonald's. Right? And it was so much tastier. And the currency was a lot easier to understand than I was thinking. I paid 14 Lits for a chicken sandwich, a medium fry and a medium drink. Which is about 5 US dollars. So it's about the same.
Well, that's about how my first day went here. It's 3PM and we all want to go to sleep but our coordinator won't let us!! He says it will screw up everything! Which makes sense :) So we have to be zombies for the rest of the day.
Hope America is treating you all well. xx
Shelb.