Today I was supposed to be flying off to the beautiful Newark Airport where I was supposed to wait a few hours before flying off to the even more beautiful Delhi Airport in India. Well, it looks like that will have to wait a while, 24 hours to be exact. I was at school for the morning to get a few classes in before expectingly being picked up at lunch time. Around 10:00am, I saw a text message saying: Flight is cancelled. Leaving tomorrow. Call before you leave… from my mother. Wow, that was a real terrible feeling. I made my way to business class in a stipend rage, shouting, snapping at people, being quite belligerent about the fact I wouldn’t be going to India today.
I gave my mom a call and she informed me that Continental had cancelled our flight. To which of course I replied, why? She told me that she has no idea, could not get an answer out of them. We will have to take the same flight tomorrow instead, and they will make sure we get the new connecting flight. Strike one for Continental. This doesn’t make things easy! We now have to make sure the tour guide isn’t there to pick us up on the wrong day, which is difficult because we are 9 hours behind their time, making it the middle of the night there. We now also lose a day of our tour! Not happy about that! Hopefully we will be able to use of our free days at the end to make up our lost day in Delhi.
Finally, on top of all of that, when I got to the cafeteria at lunch time today to ramble about my new found problems, I decided to take out the Monster Energy Drink I had planned to have on the way to the airport; when I opened the can, it exploded all over the table, creating first a mess I did not want to clean up and second taking away from the amount of drink I had! Regardless, not a great day but I hope it all works out tomorrow and we can move on to our incredible trip to India!
