12.12.2007., srijeda
I'm back home
I am sitting in my room in Croatia and I don't know how to express how do I feel.
After almost 32 hours of traveling I'm back home. I come yesterday around 12.30 European time, 6.30AM East USA time and all my family wanted to see me.
When I finally reached my bed, I can't believe, but I have been sleeping for 15 hours.
Here is what I wrote during my travel 2 days ago on Boston airport:
It's 10th December and I’m flying back home. I’m at the moment at Boston airport and I had logiest saying goodbye experience ever.
Yesterday we had our final banquet and it was pretty emotional. We were drop off at 3PM and first we had educational time when we all tried to remember what was happening in the past 6 months in every each city. We laughed as we heard some really good stories and I really enjoyed every minute remembering what we all went through in past 6 months.
At 8PM, our final banquet started. I don’t remember right order, but we had some really cool moments together. They prepared for us, for every each person different awards and my award is for person who took the most photos ever in past 6 months.
After that we had some musical moments and some jokes. At the end, we finished getting our “Up with People diploma” when all staff members gave us diploma and congratulated for finishing the program.
After that we started to say goodbye to each other and at that point I still haven’t realized that end is here and that we really don’t have any time left. We started to pack bus and bus left Bangor at 2AM.
Bus ride passed very quickly and next thing I remember was Boston airport, 6AM, and taking luggage from the bus and starting to say goodbye to some people that are going to different terminals. That was hardest thing to do. I started crying like little baby and half of the people with who I was pretty close went to different terminal.
Few of us stayed at terminal C and one by one, everyone started to leave me. Last person with who I said goodbye was Martin, our cast manager. At least I thought he is going to be the last one at that time, but when I went to my security entrance, I saw Jaakko. He was saying goodbye to Emi and he is the last person to who I said goodbye with.
Now, I’m waiting for my flight to Washington DC to catch my flight to Croatia. It is going to be long traveling day for me and I am all alone.
Thank you everyone who wrote me small message and put inside of my envelope. That really gave me strength.
It’s so hard to be around 70 people for 6 months, not having minute of private moment, and now, after 6 months, sitting alone at airport and trying to figure out everything by myself.
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09.12.2007., nedjelja
I'm on my way home
...only 2 days are sharing me from being at home.
It's been crazy last week and in few hours I'm saying goodbye to my last host family. Also, in few hours I'm having my final banquet with my cast mates and tomorrow morning most of us are going to say goodby to each other.
Yesterday was our last show and it was emotional show. When we were singing "We'll be there" audience took white tissues out and statred to wave with them around. I'm still not aware that we had our last show and that everything is coming to an end.
My flight leaves tomorrow evening and I'm not on the group flight so I'll be flighing home alone.
Prepare tissues when I come home.
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05.12.2007., srijeda
White Bangor
It's still snowing here in Maine and Christmas spirit is starting to wake up in everyone.
Yesterday and today I was sign out because of the Galery thing which was secret thing for the cast, so I couldn't write anything about it yesterday.
Everything went perfect with Galery and we presented some artistic stuff from our cast members to everyone and we played some videos. It was really emotional and for me setting everything up and watching people going through galery was really special thing.
I think I'm totally in denial stage as I'm still living in dream that end is not coming closer and closer.
Anyways... tomorrow is new day and I'm really looking forward spending it with my cast, as we don't have so many days left.
Maine is really beautiful state and I love all the snow. Yesterday we actually went building the snowman outside for half an hour, but we ended up snow ball fighting. It was few of us, and than we saw bus coming with people from CI and we went to welcome them with a little bit of winter snow fight fun. I really enjoyed and I don't remember when did I had so much fun with snow last time.
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04.12.2007., utorak
Snow blizzard in east coast
Yesterday we came to Bangor, Main. It’s a big state all the way on the north of east coast in US and since we entered Connecticut, snow was following us all the way to the north.
It was snowing soo bad that it was really hard to drive and we were late because of snow and they decided to give us morning free.
I’m living with young couple. My host mum was traveling with Up with People few years ago and they are both awesome. I don’t have roommates.
It’s morning here and outside is everything white… it looks really nice. My only concern at the moment is shoes. I don’t have winter shoes but I will try to survive.
One notice in Croatian:
Za sve koji čitaju moj blog i uvjek me pitaju zašto ne pišem na Hrvatskom jeziku, razlog je jednostavan.
Kao sudionica Up with People programa, moj blog link je na stranicama grupe s kojom putujem: www.castc2007.com
Kako mnogi ljudi posječuju stanicu našeg bloga, a time i moj blog, želja mi je bila omogučiti svim budućim participantima, kao i svima ostalima koji žele znati što se zbiva u naštoj Cast C grupi te sam odlučila pisati na engleskom jeziku. Engleski jezik je službeni jezik u Up with People te mi je želja da se više Hrvata uključi u Up with People.
Posjetite i prijavite se za jedinstveno životno iskustvo: www.upwithpeople.org
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02.12.2007., nedjelja
Show day and host family day
Yesterday was show day and I was lucky one and I had to get up at 4AM to be ready at 5AM to start setting the stage up. We had super set up as our first show was about to start at 3PM, so that was the main reason why did we have to get up so early.
Both shows were amazing as this are almost our 2 last shows. Next city is going to be our last show and everyone are aware of the fact that end is coming closer and closer so everyone are very emotional.
I was feeling soo tired whole day and fact that we had to wake up at 4 didn’t help me much, especially waking up 3 days in row at the same time and going to sleep every 3 days around 11PM. I thought I’m not going to have any strength for the show, but green room always wakes me up and I always remember reason why am I doing this and why should I be all in when I’m performing in the show.
We were first one performing in Bernardsville High School auditorium as they just build it and we had that honor to perform first.
Today was host family day and Jaakko, my roommate, and me, we were sleeping in till almost 11AM and after that we had “branch” (or to translate: late breakfast, early lunch) and our host family had plans to take us to Thomas Edison laboratory and house, but unfortunately when we came, laboratory was closed because they are restoring it and house was closed because of bad weather.
Oh, yeah… speaking about bad weather… how could I forget to tell that we had our first Up with People snow today and when I woke up, everything was white. I would say that it was around 5-10cm of snow.
After that, they took us to national park where American Revolutionary War was happening. Just to tell you little bit about the history…war was taking place in 1775–1783 between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies on the North American continent and George Washington was commander in chief. It is huge hiking place, but we went to visit one of the houses that people gave for use to American army and there were people dressed up as Americans in that time and they told us some interesting stories about that time. I even tried how it was to be American solider in that time, wearing all different things with you which are heavy, together with old gun.
In the evening we went to visit Hindu temple and we had dinner there. It was south Indian food and it was amazing. I love Indian food. Tempe looks really nice and I would never before imagine that I would be in US and that I would be standing in front of amazing Hindu temple and have feeling like being in India. Who could imagine having such cultural experience?
When we come home, we just relaxed a little bit and started talking about everything.
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