Arrival

Me and another Finnish girl arrived to New York on Thursday 22nd. My first flight from Kuopio to Helsinki left about 9am and New York flight 2.10pm. I really like flying and 9 hours flight is not a problem to me. There was an AFS women waiting for us at the JFK airport and we took a taxi to Hilton hotel. The bed was so huge and comfortable!

Skittles, M&M and water bottle were the first things I bought in the USA. You really cant find Skittles from Finland and I really wanted to have some. 

Because we arrived on Thursday and my bus left on Saturday, I had to spend two nights at hotel. That was fine for me because I got more sleep and then my jet lag wasn't so bad as I thought it would be. I spent friday with two beautiful Norwegian girls, Anne and Maria. Maria was my room mate. 

We had to wear our name tags all the time! It made me feel like 5 years old or something. We had to wear them to get free food from hotel restaurant. FREE FOOD. Yes.

On Saturday we second arrival AFS students who will stay in Pennsylvania took a bus to Harrisburg to AFS orientation day. It was hold at church in Mechanicsburg. The AFS man went thought some things what we cant do during our exchange. That wasn't really interesting because I knew all those things before.

Later the host families came to pick up their students. When my host family came to pick me up I felt like the happiest girl on the planet!