May 16, 2000

So this is going to be the final message in this journal. I went to Joanna's house and Sofia was there too. We just sat and watched tv. Alex called and we made plans to meet at 222 but hours later. Me and Joanna took her luggage to the house to get that out of the wy. We sat there until Alex called. We went to 222 and I had my last frappe. It was a bad one too. I was getting very sad about leaving. George came me a variety of teas. It was so sweet. We sat there for a long time but I did not care because I was dead tired. We all decided to go to Gus' for kabobs. Me, Joanna and Dina went and Alex was going to meet us with George. It was crazy in the store because the fan broke and they could not grill a lot of kabobs at a time. Christina came with Angela. We ate and then sat for a while so we could talk to Vicky a little too. Finally I said my goodbyes and went home. I cried a little. More because I felt bad for what I did to them then the fact that I was leaving. When I got home, I started fixing the luggage. Mom got up and was yelling and being crazy. Anyway. I was able to get two hours of sleep in. I woke up at 4 to shower and get ready. Mom heard me and woke up yelling again that I got up too early. She was planning on getting up at 5, fixing the luggage and being on the plane by 6:20. It is a good  thing I am anal about these things. Another crazy thing she did, I asked her to sew my pants a little and she only did one leg. We went to the airport and checked in. It all worked out very well with the luggage. Mom left and then I and to wait for one hour with Uncle Jim and Joanna. Not exactly the typical goodbye party. Finally the time came for me to leave. I cried saying bye to Joanna a lot. The plane was really nice. The seats were leather and I could actually sit Indian style in them. I slept most of that flight. My layover in England was very short and my gate was very far away. But I did have time to stop and buy my perfume, Dolce Gabana BY. When I boarded the plane I almost freaked. It was tiny and dirty and had that nauseating plane small. Luckily there was an empty seat between me and the other lady. She was a really cute English lady. She asked me if I was a yoga instructor beacue of the way I was bunching up int he chair to sleep. I had attempted to bring kabobs for dad but they would not refrigerate them for me so I had to throw them away. Anyway. I tried to sleep for most of the plane ride but it did not work well. It seemed like it was taking foreve. Then the pilot announced that we would be landing in one hour. I though we had three left. What I had done is changed by watch for England time then American or something but was off by tow hours. I was suddenly the happiest girl in the world. At the airport, I found mom right away. All of our luggage came in ok too. We went through customs and they opened the luggage with the olives but put them back. I went running out and Babs was calling my name. I left her all the luggage and I went running to my daddy crying. I was so happy. So then we all came home like a family. Rania came over that day and so did Sofie and Mrs Dina. It is really good to be home.