Day One

So I just moved to the States after living basically my whole life in El Salvador, even though I was born in CA ad have visited before there had never been a trip this monumental to me, everything I owned was coming with me and I was thinking throughout the entire 3 hour flight: "Please, please let my suitcases arrive safely".

I had only been on a plane by myself one time before yesterday which was when I was 15 and I went to CA for 2 weeks and it was a easy flight into a easy airport (SFO) now the Atlanta airport is so big and confusing and to top it off you have a little train thing to increase your chances of getting lost, which I believe it was purposely made to be confusing in order for you to lose your connecting flight but anyways back to our topic of the day.

My flight was packed with the 212th and the 255th Engineer Companies from the Tennessee National Guard who were on their way home after building schools in El Salvador (video here) who were awesome company since I was sitting in the same row as a couple of them and surronded by the rest while they were preparing themselves mentally to wait for about 4 hours for their connecting flight I was preparing myself for the glorious mess of the ATL airport.

Amazingly everything went smoothly, I found my aunt and uncle waiting for me and a real quiet airport (maybe because of easter idk) and it was off to baggage claim and it took about a good 30-45 min until I was able to get my suitcases.

A 2hr drive to Alabama that I didn't even notice 'cause I was too busy taking everything in, the first and only time that I had visited AL before it had been winter and everything was dead so now everything looks so different yet familiar in a way.

Once we were home and I had catched  up with everyone it was unpacking time, it still not completely organized yet but hopefully in the next couple of days I'll finish :)

It was Easter Sunday today, in short went to Wally World, Easter egg hunting which was unsuccesful only found 2 eggs, had an awesome lasagna, sat outside and waited for the ice cream truck for about 25 minutes with my cousin and felt like a little girl (it was my first time buying an ice cream from ice cream truck)...basically it was a eat eat eat kinda day but I had a great time with my family.

Current status: I'm sick right now I think I ate too much (duh!)

As you might notice if you were frequent readers of Alice in Sivarland we have now switched our posting language to English.

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