Summer

July

Now the Air Hitch thing, my airplane ticket to Ireland, was a one-way offer. This is something I sort of neglected to tell my parents. I’m sure they assumed it was a round trip ticket, but I only had enough money for the first part of my trip, to get me there.

I had spoken with my host brother Oliver in France on the phone a few times and he assured me that I could get work as a seasonal laborer in any number of vineyards, picking grapes and earning some much-needed cash, money that I would use to buy a plane ticket back home at the end of my adventure. That was my plan. Seriously.

August

I received letters from my friends Katrine in Norway and Dorte in Denmark, inviting me and welcoming me to stay with them. I met Katrine in Australia when she was an exchange student there the same time as me in 1989, and I met Dorte when she an exchange student to Nebraska in 1990.

AWESOME!!! Now I have three places to stay for sure!