Change of Plans

My flight leaving Indonesia was delayed 3 hours meaning I was going to miss my connecting flight in Malaysia. After countless attempts I was finally able to get through to Emirates on the HORRIBLE airport phone long enough to get a better number. Took several more tries before I was able to communicate my situation and get my flight slid. Unfortunately the next available flight wasn’t for another 4 days. To give you an idea of how bad the phone connection was it took close to an hour to get all this stuff straightened out, but in a strange way it reminded me of my navigation days and was even a little fun trying to make it work. The HUGE blessing though was that non of the flights were going to cost me any extra, which I couldn’t afford. Now I only had to find my way back to the FH office at night with no address or phone number in hand. Thankfully I could communicate one known landmark to the driver and was able to guide him in from there. I was glad to get a few extra days hanging out with David Strivings, a fellow intern (he was up in Aceh). Only real bummer was I was that my time with my German buddy Steffen was going to be cut down to 2 nights.