Update on the trip: Flight to Paris!

Well, we haven’t blogged much yet, but that will pick up now.  The first few days have been a blur.  We arrived at the ATL airport at 4pm Monday.  Check-in is a bit of a process with 18 of us!  As the students hounded me about carrying-on my hiking backpack we made our way through security and to the gate only to find out that our flight from Boston to Paris had been canceled!

Our group kept so positive as we made our way to the international terminal where I spoke with Miss Margaret for about 2 hours.  The best we could do was to fly all 18 of us standby on the next flight leaving ATL to Paris.  We felt confident that God was going to work out our transportation to Paris and everyone remained upbeat.  An hour later as I stood before the Air France reps about to see our chances of getting any of the 18 of us on that flight, Miss Margaret showed back up, AT THE GATE!! She took the Air France reps into a hallway, away from the other 30 people trying to fly standby to Paris as well (this was the last flight into Europe from ATL that night and a London and Paris flight had been cancelled…many people wanted to be on that flight!)  Miss Margaret came out of the hallway and called me aside and whispered…

“You guys are all on now!”  She then gave me 18 vouchers for $12/each worth of food in the airport!  Some of us had not eaten and made our way to the food court area.  Other students who had eaten began paying for other people’s food in the airport to start conversations with people!