From Baltimore To Urbana

We left Baltimore April 19. to travel to our final destination which was Urbana in Illinois. We left our hotel at 7:30 a.m. and took the taxi to the Penn station (main train station in Baltimore). The train was leaving 8:10 a.m., so we asked the taxi driver if he could get us there on time, and he did. It took one hour to get back to Washington DC by train. (Look at the picture from Washington DC train station.)

Some people helped us with our baggage with getting it up the stairs. We thought: “Americans are so kind!”, but they were actually from Sweden!

At the train station in Washington DC, we had to take a taxi again to Washington Airport, and then take the flight to Chicago. From Chicago to Urbana it took 3 hours with buss to come to our apartment. I watched the Simpsons movie on my phone, so the last hour was nothing.

When we got there, we needed to find the key to our apartment. It was another place, but we didn't know exactly where. A guy (ho was also on the buss) helped us to find where the keys was, because he was living near by it. Thanks to him we found the keys.


When we were in our apartment (this picture shows “our” building), it was nice, but one bad thing: NO TV!

After a night without TV, the morning came. We had to get up early, so we could find a food market and talk to the headmaster in Urbana Middle School.

At the school there were 800 students, also around 260 students in each class! In the principal’s office, they told me that they needed to test me the next day, to find out which class I will go to. The Principal gave us some forms to fill out about me. By then the time was around 11 o’clock and we had still not eaten our breakfast because we could not find any food market on our way to the school. We were starving!

When we went out, down the road, there was a gas station were we could buy some food and drink. But we needed much more food and were so lucky to meet new friends that helped us to get to a large food market by car! We had pizza for dinner and had nice time together.

Tomorrow I am going to the school to be tested! Wish me luck!