Made it to Sao Paulo, Brazil for a 14 hour layover. PC is cushioning the past few days/nights of hotel lobbies, airplane seats, and airport hustling by housing the 43 of us trainees in the American Airlines Admirals' Lounge for the many hours we must spend viewing Brazil from inside the terminal. Some of us are finally crashing from the constant stimulation and overdrive by pushing together stiff leather chairs and crawling into the fetal position. Others are practicing Guarani, the language we're about to be immersed in. A few are reading. A few doing it up early in the day with free cocktails. Most of us are still chatting and engaging with each other with the same speed and intensity that we started at just over 36 hours ago.
Has it really only been 36 hours? It feels like forever already. Meet a thousand new things at once: new PC family, new language(s), new food (mostly starches, thus far), new heights of atmospheric humidity, so little sleep, constantly in transit. Trying to remember what I'm doing. I think we're all trying to remember what we're doing-a normal airport state-of-mind.
My PC family is amazing. So well-intentioned, so ambitious, so idealistic and hopeful and kind. Everyone is here to give, and the giving starts with each other. I feel that I can rest my head on anyone's shoulder (which I've been compelled to do often these past overwhelming and exciting hours) and be at ease. Oh... the joys of sinking into a life about cultivating postive relationships.
First photo: PC luggage storage
Second photo: PC airport check-in
Third photo: Waiting out the 14-hr layover at the Admirals' Lounge
*There is 47 of us.
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ReplyDeleteTell Trevor to update his blog or contact his parents. It was great to see the pictures from the airport. Good luck to all of you on your next two plus year adventure.
Trev's Dad - John D. Bowers