November 8, 2007 - Newark

(The actual date is December 9, 2007 and I am in Antoinettes house in Tegucigalpa where there is a wonderful thing called WIRELESS INTERNET!!!)


I am now writing from the Newark airport at 6:05 am. The good news is that 9 of “us” got the flight by being on what they call stand-by. The not so good news is that 5 of us remain, awaiting the next flight, still on stand-by. Since we did not get this flight, we will also not get the next one, which means extra costs most likely, but then again if you manage to have the right people at the airport help you, sometimes they will be very understanding and will not charge extra. So we shall see how that goes. Those of us who remain are as follows: Patrick, Eli, Marylin, Kestas, and myself. Our luggage has gone onwards towards Honduras, so we will be living out of our carry-on bags for the next little while, until we manage to get the next flight. Another positive thing is that those who have gone on ahead of us left us their meal vouchers, so we will have no shortage of food in our wait.

It was a miracle that all 9 of them got on the plane because at first there was supposedly 8 people missing, but pretty much all of them came at the last minute, but our guys had gotten on already. Then the next two on our list were thinking that they were most likely not going to get on, but the last two guys came along, and one of them had lost their passport between the security gate, and the boarding gate, so he could not go. Unfortunate for him of course, but it was nice that more of them got on, because it means less extra costs for Marta and Werner.
All things considered, we have been looked after these past few days of travel from the very beginning problem of one of the girls having lost her luggage due to the fact that someone took it with on the bus to Africa, but luckily they left it at the airport for our Honduran gorup who was leaving at a later time, so she managed to get that – until now when we still have a chance to go at 10:15am on the next flight.

More updates will come in the next little while I think...