I was having trouble figuring out how to explain the beginning of this segment of our journey, but the interesting thing we all later found out, was that the ending of our journey would be the most difficult part to describe. I for one, was alone and having absolutely no travel experience. This was my first excuse for a passport, in fact. I guess my reasoning for being 22 years old and never off the continent was not to suffice but the beginning of this journey is the focus of this story. It started out with a midnight flight out of LAX to JFK. the flight was perfect, got into NY for the first time in my nearly virgin travel life. Somehow through my tenacity I convinced 90% of the group to make use of our 8 hour delay from 8am-4pm and so we went! We took a confusing pathway to an even more confusing exit to get tickets to finally leave the airport and get on a tram to Times Square...the wrong tram initially of course until we found our way through the help of a nice New Yorker. To keep our experiences intimate (excluding the necessary anecdote; our group leader slipping in dog poo in the middle of the sidewalk) I will spare telling the details of our excursion but we all got back safely and arrived at a storm of surprises. As we battled with extreme exhaustion as we made our way through the airport. We had an exciting time getting on Czech Airlines. After our 1 hour delay sitting on the plane off we went on our 7 1/2 hour journey to Prague. Again, after a 5 hour layover in a tiny airport, we had the pleasure of boarding a plane an hour late only to find after the engines and I took my Dramamine that technical difficulties arose and the engines were turned off after another half hour delay. As we were herded like sheep onto a bus the size of a bathroom roughly 100 passengers sat on a hot bus which took another 20 minutes to take us back to the terminal. We were sent on a wild goose chase through the airport in search for facts. To our disappointment we were delighted to wait another 2 hours to take off to Tallinn. When we arrived in Tallinn, the whole trip turned around. Airport was beautiful, city was beautiful, and our tour guide was beautiful.. Natalie introduced us to Aviva (both JDC staff) and the city on the way to our hotel. At this point we all were running on an empty tank of gas with a total of a 32 hour trip under on our engines. Extremely long story short and because I am still tired, we went to dinner, saw a dance performance, and while the rest of the group went out I turned into bed. By Staci Bern.
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