i am alive and well! I am official now and have a name tag....the flight was long and everyone at the airport spoke english...well somewhat english...one guy in the group i met up with in Dallas is fluent in japanese as well as spanish so he helped out a lot ..... one of our guides started talking to us in spanish at a bus stop and just left and the four of us left had a fun time figuring out the bus stuff but we made it.
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