Today we arrived at Shannon airport after flying basically through the night. Here I was, getting off of a plane in a foreign country by myself at 6am. What?!? But yes, I was sitting in the airport waiting to be checked by security and admitted into a country I had only ever dreamed about living in. My stomach was a bundle of nerves and excitement, my anxiety through the roof to say the least. We waited in the airport for the other members of API to arrive until about 12pm local time. The girls on my flight included Bre, Bridget, and Jessica. While we waited we drank coffee and ate a bite to eat, all the while talking to our API director, Kevin. I couldn't eat much because of how topsy-turvy my life seemed at the
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