Malone Service Learning - France and Germany

Sorry to our family and friends who have been sitting at their computers terribly afraid for our well being because we have not yet posted a blog post. We are alive! We have also walked miles through the streets of Paris, conquered the Metro, and have been to most of the major sites and we are finally sitting down catching our breath and updating you on our trip. Every good story starts at the beginning, so that is where we will start as well. After saying good bye to family and friends at the airport we traveled to Charlotte where after a three hour layover, we found out that our plane was being sent to the hanger for maintenance; however, they would send us another plane, in three more hours…. This messed up our schedule a bit for Wednesday. Once we landed in Paris, we drug our luggage through the street to our hostel. We were all pleasantly surprised to find that our hostel is right on the canal, our rooms have amazing views, and there is a restaurant downstairs where we can get cof

Hey Friends... Just a quick note to let you know that we have arrived safely at our hostel in Paris. We're working on sorting out some food and coffee and then we'll figure out plans from there.

Just a quick update to everyone to let you know that our flight out of Charlotte was delayed and we are now taking off likely closer to 8:00 pm instead of 4:40 pm. This will throw our schedule off for the day that we arrived a bit, as we had a walking tour of the city set up that will now be delayed/rescheduled. Which means we're learning lesson #1 of international travel: be flexible! Talk to you from France soon!

As usual the time leading up to such a trip is "crazy" with trying to get everything done locally and running around after the last minute details. For example the Euros that were suppose to arrive last Friday finally reached the bank this afternoon. When the plane takes off tomorrow we will have what we have and be flexible about everything else.