Day one July 12th, 2006
AutoStrad team gathered in Queen Alia airport/ Amman at 11:00 PM, everything went smoothly and shopping the duty free is a must under the excuse of buying tobacco everyone is excited yet not knowing what to expect later.
The plane took off at 2:50 AM Amman Time heading to Amsterdam; we were supposed to meet Noor Dajani in Amsterdam coming from London. The gate security in Amsterdam was ridiculous, interrogation to an extent that they went through the history of the passport country by country and the reason behind the visit. The team was complete now and finished with all security issues, and ready to go to Detroit. The plane took off at 9:00 AM Amsterdam time which is 10:00 AM Amman Time. We arrived Detroit in 10:20 AM Detroit Time which is 5:20 Amman Time. Everything was very easy, we had to take our luggage since it was the first entry point to the states and we were taking another internal flight, showed our J1 visa to the officer went through the procedure took the luggage and went to customs, we all checked the boarding pass, we all had ones but Deema, and the system did not show she was coming on a flight from Amsterdam in the first place so it took some time to fix this. Detroit Airport was the last now to go through, interesting airport with disco-like walk through gate connecting isles. Checked in and all is all right. The plane was really small to Nashville and a bit not stable took off at 2:00 PM, it was a bit windy and the humidity caused to have some bumps. It was not pleasant, but we managed. Nashville finally and we had to adjust our watches one hour back again so we’re now 2: 45 PM. Jerry Barnaby the program manager of the IJMMT was waiting for us at the airport along with his a student assistant Jessica. Still a one-hour drive to reach Kentucky. The drive was beautiful, felt a bit like Europe, the greenery on both sides, but it was pretty humid and it rained a bit. Finally we got to Kentucky and specifically to WKU campus/bates runner residence. We found Marylin Greer waiting for us there. she is a member of the international journalism and media management training program IJMMT which is the bigger program in which AutoStrad Lies under. Marylin was very welcoming. We checked in the residence and took our room keys, put our luggage, and headed to the hall in the residence to go over laptop, field kit, digital camera distribution over the team in addition to taking the training manual and other logistical issues. It was an exhausting day, very rainy one as well for Kentucky (the Blue grass State). Everyone went to his room to unpack, shower and sleep looking forward for tomorrow!
AutoStrad Team
Bowling Green
Kentucky
posted by Autostrad Radio production @ 10:15 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home