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Monday, June 29, 2009

Flight to Tunisia--Take one:

Despite having a ticket--Delta thought it would be a brilliant idea to kick me off. Basically, they 'randomly' selected me and 6 other people and decided that we would 'involuntarily give up our seats' since they had decided to oversell the seats on the plane.

On the plus side I made $800 from delta--on the down side they put me standby, on a full flight, with no promises of getting on a plane until the next day.

Thankfully. Luck improved and I got on the next flight, made my connection, and got to my next flight as it was bording. Only down side is my cell phone had zero service all through the Paris airport.

Next arrived in Tunis, met some Tunisians on the plane etc. etc. Got to Tunis [phone still has no service] met up with people on the trip and went to wait for bags.

Naturally. My bags do not show up. So I got to go chat in arabic/french/english and find out that for what ever reason airfrance thought my bags should go on the flight after me, and that in Tunis, they do not deliver bags so I made my first taxi trip [with someone else who's bags were lost and arriving on this flight] and then after much chatting in arabic/french/english with the security guards got to wait. for nearly an hour. for the flight to show up and luckily my bags arrived.

Went and had a Tunisian diner of chili-paste and bread, followed by breek [which I have no idea how to spell] which is tuna and runny egg in a fried thin thin thin breaded schpiel that you eat like a burrito, and spagetti?

Today I had a delish sandwich of cheese and chili-paste and salad. And this afternoon is off to the embassy.


Oh! and they are giving us tunisian cell phones.

B'slema!

Thursday, June 25, 2009

غدا أذهب إلى أتلانتا

Tomorrow I start my trip to Tunisia--kind of. Technically tomorrow is a day in Atlanta.

If all goes accordingly...

I'll go to Atlanta tomorrow, Saturday fly from Atlanta to Paris, then from Paris to Tunis and get to my hotel some time around 12:30--Sunday. *Hopefully* I'll even have luggage and no flights get toooo delayed.

Sunday, June 21, 2009

!اهلا أصدقائي

So, I've decided that I shall be a copy cat and join in the 'start a blog because I'm leaving the country' club and share my adventures while in Tunisia.

Thus far my 'going to africa prep' has consisted of searching for a 'stick' version of bug spray. Not sure if it exists, but I've been recommended to find one to ward off malaria mosquitos? Hopefully it will be a successful search--catching malaria is not on my 'to do' list, and I'm not planning on adding it to any sort of bucket list--ever.


Note: Anyone who wants a post card send me your address somehow and I'll be sure to send one to you straight from Africa.