Hampton Inn & Suites Denver-Cherry Creek Glendale

[Ed note: this entry was written by T, the mastermind of the trip.]

Motivation:

The planning for this trip began in the final days of December 2008. United had just announced significant changes to their award chart which would have the effect of increasing the cost of awards, in miles. Awards in business (C) from North America to South Asia would go from 90,000 to 125,000 for instance, a pretty hefty increase. Changes like this are not ...

Airlines

Best seat (Trans Pac): United NRT-ORD 747 new config lie flats
Best seat (regional): ANA PVG-NRT
Best meal: Thai ICN-BKK Green Chicken Curry (tie)
Singapore HAN-SIN Grilled Duck Breast (tie)
Best IFE (Trans Pac): United NRT-ORD
Best IFE (regional): Singapore SIN-PVG
Best Service: Thai ICN ...

Min skola

Vi går I en skola som heter University-park Elimentery skol. Har gar ungefar 500 elever I klasser fran kindergarten upp till femte klass. De fins barn från alla lender exempel mexiko, spinjen, libyen, kina, indien, maroko och japan. Spesielt med usa e, var vi en ska I skolan moste vi gå på led.

I min klass har vi science, matte, social science, art, English, music ...

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Ola fick hjälp av en relocator som först rekommenderade oss att leta i ett annat område eftersom husen i vårt var slut (säsongen för hyresmarknaden hänger ju helt och hållet ihop med skol- och universitetsstart), men det brydde vi oss inte om. Dagen efter Ola landat i början på september fick han visning på fem hus, varav 4 var obeboliga, och det femte var vårt! Därmed fick vi hälsa på våra klasser och nya lärare dagen efter vår ankomst till Denver en vecka senare ...

... suburb of Denver, to do some homework. She knew how loud Alex got when the Broncos played.) Something I learned about Alex is that he is a huge Bronco fan. The game came on; he ran to get his Champ Bailey jersey out of the closet and put it on. I dont know about anyone else, but when a person wears a jersey of their favorite team and are not in public for anyone to see them wearing it; then that tells me that the person is a ...

... stomach. Yeah, my mood this morning could have been a lot better, blahhhh. Anyway, we took it easy this morning and didn't do much. I messed around with this computer more than anything else. Alex tried to make breakfast, but he didn't realize that he only had 1 egg in the fridge. The other eggs had busted from being frozen. So he made a 1 egg/sausage mix with hash browns for both of us which was surprisingly good. We lounged around the appt. for an hour or 2 more. We ...

... to be rolling by then. Luckily I was ready to go by then because I did not pay attention to the time at all. Up until this point in the trip, the landscape was not completely flat; it was wide open grazing cattle country. Once I left Salina and got rolling west again, that is when the cattle country became flat, boring row crop farm land. About every 20 to 40 miles there would be a large grain elevator on the horizon but that was about the only ...

Up at 5:00am for an early flight to Denver. Poor Mom...she got selected for "special handling" by the TSA. So, while the rest of us sailed through security, she had to get patted down and scanned...and they rummaged through her purse. Anyway, we, eventually, all got on the plane and bid Bismarck a fond farewell.

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Another day we went for a day drive in the rocky Mountain foothills west of Castle Rock through small towns. Found a little river for Bear to swim in & had lunch at a traditional American BBQ type place.

This was my first day of the mission trip. From what I remember, it was mostly worship and hanging out for the night and getting ready for our assignments for the week. Since I don't remember much from it, I won't go into to daily detail. Every day though I went to a boys and girls club and hung out with kids all day. It was an amazing experience and helped fuel me to go on more mission trips.