When Fall Break Tried to Break Me...
Have you ever done something stupid enough to throw your entire travel itinerary into complete disarray? If you have, you know the struggle. If you haven't, come on a journey with me to relive what, at the time, felt like the most brutal 15 hours of my entire existence, and you can laugh with me. Or at me. " Flight 1396, scheduled to depart at 9.05 am has been delayed. Please wait for further instructions shortly, thank you" the intercom at the airport in Pisa blared a little too loudly. The sun, now shining in all its glory heated up my skin through the glass of the windows in the waiting area and it told me that it was approximately three hours past our scheduled departure. Angry passengers huffed and puffed at the ground staff of the airline, but there was little they could do about a strike that had ensued everywhere in Italy. We were fresh out of the stress of midterms and only just beginning to feel the excitement of Fall Break, when we found out the ni...