Day 1 "Pre-Departure friends"

  So May 2nd we all arrived at Pitt so we could begin our journey to Vietnam. After a lively dinner at The Porch we headed back to our rooms so that we could get some rest before our long travel day, but really everyone was just trying to finish the papers that were supposed to be due that morning. 

   We walked around a little trying to make friends, but after a few failed attempts we realized that no one really wanted to be associated with us pre-departure. So we just hid in our rooms till 6 o'clock the next morning.

Day 2/3 "I will fly 500 miles and I will fly 500 more"

   Waking up at 6 am is not pleasant, especially when it is to a freezing room where your only cover is thinner than a sheet of paper. Somehow we all made it through and met up in Towers lobby, not exactly bright eyed and bushy tailed but as close as you can on 2 hours of sleep with 28 travel hours ahead of you. We managed to take up the entire of the 28X with ourselves and our luggage, so every normal person that got on shared the communal dislike for those dame college kids. 

    We checked our bags and found that Dan and Jared were probably not going to get their stuff in Ho Chi Minh because the first thing that happened was the woman behind the counter deleted their tickets. Moving on we got to the first of our 3 flights, it was a propeller plane and this was the first time I had ever been on that kind of plane so I was excited. But really all I did was sleep.

  After landing in the Newark airport and some slight signage confusion we got on our second plane to Hong Kong. Summary of what happened on the plane: We all played inflight poker and Uma had never played before and won, 3 meals, 2 bathroom break, 2 movies, 5 attempts to read Game of Thrones when actually falling asleep, over 200 awkward faces made at Hailey, and 1 random asian that sat next to Dan and I which we still can't determine the gender of. 

   Hong Kong was pretty boring, but I stayed awake the whole flight to Ho Chi Minh so A for effort! Got a Bloody Mary (legally!) on the plane because in the words of my father "when in Vietnam do as the Romans do". We got off in Ho Chi Minh and surprisingly all of the luggage made it. When we went outside we experienced the weather and Tin for the first time. It was definitely an experience. 

   Took a bus back to the Victory Hotel and died.