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Day 1 - Smell ya later Cincy!4/26/2018 I can technically count this as day one, it is the START of the journey even if we don’t get to Italy till the 27th. Was I prepared for a 9 day trip? Of course not, I hadn't even packed. So the morning of the 26th was a frantic dash to make sure everything from my toothbrush to my underwear was packed. On the drive there, I realized I never got a data plan for Italy. Guess I was going to wing it there. It was still surreal driving up to the airport. Was this real? Were we really going to Italy? Despite the weekly classes, it really hadn't dawned on me that we were flying to Italy. This was going to be one of the most memorable weeks of my life, I could tell.
After checking in, we gathered at our gate. This was clearly the time everyone was trying to get to know each other. We were going to be spending the next week together, might as well start here. Our first trip was from CVG to JFK, a reasonably fast trip. Some of us had never flown before, let alone to Europe so this was going to be a great warm up. I've taken the Delta from CVG to JFK so often this seemed like a Monday morning commute to me. I tried really hard to not fall asleep on the flight to JFK, saving up my sleep hours for the 8 hour trip from JFK to Rome. I tried to find some coffee and a spot to work on my presentation. JFK was overwhelmingly big and I forgot how horrible the WiFi was so I ended up just talking to the rest of the people on the trip. I knew this was going to be a rough 8 hours but luckily I was seated next to my roommate Gus. Somewhere in the middle of our third episode of Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia, I must have dozed off and I guess my mental clock deemed this as the end of our first day of our adventure.
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