Sat, Sep 22nd, 3.30am. Waking up. Yet sleepy I finished to pack up everything for the trip. At 4am we leave home way to Barcelona airport. We check in and take some snack. I'm flying to Madrid Barajas, not Vancouver yet. It will be a long trip. At 8am I arrive Madrid and I have to wait until 11.15am for the people in charge of the English courses and all the related stuff (flights, accommodation, ...). And here I am, writing a few lines for the blog. I don't know when you'll be reading this, but I also neither know when I will have the chance to publish it, here in the airport there is no free wifi service, so for sure this has to wait 'til I arrive Canada. This new terminal (T4) of the Barajas airport is not too bad, I specially like the roof. I'll try to take a picture later. It's all like waves modelled with slim sticks of wood, arranged side-by-side, and sustained on yellow V-form iron structure pairs. One bad thing of this airport is the lack of trash bins, well, there are, but you have to look for it, a few more installed will be better. As in all the airports here there is also a lot of advertising all around. Finally I met other people waiting for the RedLeaf staff at the meeting point previously established. It was 20' later from the meeting time that I called the "Emergency Phone" of Red Leaf. No people was coming to meet us because we were adult. Oh, nice to know it. The man I talked to said me I should have received an email with this information, but I didn't actually. So well, we went to the check-in and waited for the flight time. The Madrid-London flight was fine, no delays, good aircraft seats, snack included... good overall. Once in London we went to the f*cking security controls and my security arch sounded when I passed through it. Apart from that, no other issues at the airport. It was the time to go to the board gate. A very big plane was waiting... Very big. The first we saw inside the aircraft was business class... amazing seats, a lot of leg room... But then we came back to reality of economy class :-( Very narrow seats. I was surprised of having such little space for a 9h long flight. Afther 3h I couldn't support it anymore, I stand up and went to the back of the plane were we had a bit of space to chat and a window to look at Greenland... beautyfull views. It was nice 'til a woman tell us to low our voice because she wanted to sleep... We moved a bit. Spanish people always "dando la nota". Finally we arrived Vancouver, 18.40 Vancouver time. After passing the immigration check and picking up the baggage, we exchange our home address. After that, arrived the moment to go out and meet our new 3-weeks-long family. And there they were. I saw the signs with the name of all of us. There was mine too. And Dona holding it. "Hello!" We took the car and drove to North Van, where they live (and I will during three weeks). Very nice house in a residential and quiet area. Beautyfull garden in the back and a nice bedroom with a big bed :-) I had a shower before anything. I was tired because the 24h long trip. After that we chat a bit and we took a cup of tea. Time to go bed and rest. Good night.
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