The adventure begins!

Hola!!  I am finally in Argentina after much anticipation, but unfortunately I could not teleport and skip the 9 hour flight.  However, I am simply grateful that my flight was not a cumulative  total of 24 hours (like the students' from Japan), so in truth I have nothing to complain about. 
 It was pleasant to actually meet all of the other students who were also going to Argentina and not feel like a lone world traveler.  Here was our orientation group: (about 20 of us from a bunch of different states)

Orientation Group Picture (Miami)

 

On the Plane ride to Argentina it initial seemed as if I would just be sitting with one other exchange student to my right and an empty seat to my left, but towards the end of boarding an Argentine girl who had been studying in Orlando came and sat next to me.  She began frantically looking for something and then explained (in English, because many of the Argentines spoke English) that she could not find her passport.  Panic attack!  That would have been about my worst nightmare.  (Fortunately I think she worked it out with the Airline). 

Other than that, my flight was uneventful besides not sleeping much, eating an airplane dinner at about 11, and eating breakfast at about 4 in the morning.