Sunday July 5

Today all of us change from the Eastcoast to the Westcoast - time difference 3 hours. Till Thursday we are split into three groups. Magda from Costa Rica, Thea from Georgia, Cheryl from Jamaica, Shehu from Nigeria, Alena from Slovakia and I form Team A. The other two groups go either to San Diego, California, or to Seattle, Washington. Our English language officer Irwin leads us via Chicago to Portland, Oregon, almost 2400 miles from Washington. Since the security checks take a long time we leave early for Reagan Airport, Washington, DC. Both of our flights are in time. The transfer in Chicago OHare is easy, although it is one of the biggest airports in the US. From the plane we can see some of the beautiful landscape of Oregon: mountains with snow on top, green valleys and the Columbia river. Irwin says, Oregon is like Austria. We'll see!