Day 1: I was up most the night finishing last minute packing and having to be at the airport at 4am the morning of July 6th. My mom drove me to the airport and when we got in the terminal there was no one kinda felt erie but we had a little wait to get checked in at the desk. It was such an emotional time because this was my first international trip without my parents and my first missions trip with a big group.
 Once I boarded my flight at 6am I felt my life changed completely! When I arrived to DFW I met my buddy and fellow AYCer Melinda from Midland, Texas. Melinda and I got to our gate to catch a flight to NYC. While finding a place to sit Melinda, found a green shirt dude! Hector a fellow AYCer from Larado, Texas was on our flight too! We sat in the waiting area and had a good little conversation. Come to find out he spoke SPANISH too! So needless to say you can guess the whole conversation turned a complete 180 degrees from English to Spanish (insert a little LOL) pobrecita Melinda when a bit later here came another AYCer Spencer from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Spencer had a dark red shirt on but thankfully he found us green shirts! We were ALL headed in the same direction our final destination? You guessed it SWITZERLAND! It was really fun to meet up with a couple of AYCers before we met the entire group. We got to chat and got to know one another a bit before take off. We all sat in different locations in the plane with the exception of Melinda and I we had seats together. I also found out there were a few other AYCers at DFW but on different airlines, we'd soon meet up within a few hours. Thankful for Facebook, we find out who's where and what. A three and half hour flight later we landed at JFK in New York city! It was very awesome to see city from the air, central park I couldn't see Lady Liberty but I did see the entire city wow it was amazing I've never been to New York City before and to see it from the air was more exciting. We got to the gate and the guys were waiting for us to go the Swiss LX terminal but the first stop was to get luggage although Spencer and I had had ours sent all the way through to Geneva Melinda and Hector had to pick there's up. We got kinda lost and we couldn't find our way to the tram very confusing but thankfully we had a few good navigators who got us to the right place! We got to Swiss LX terminal and met with a few fellow AYCers and got all checked in. A bit later the rest of the group arrived and we had a group meeting and Bro. Mann gave us our badges and we ALL headed to the gate to take us to Geneva...yep! Group A a group of about 54 and five chaperones. The other group (B) and 21 young people and two chaperones had already left from Washington, D.C. We had a little wait and everyone was anxiously waiting to board, we all got to know one another and it sure felt like we knew each other for a very long, long time! Many of us from different parts of the US. Although, my group was just half of the entire AYC group it was pretty big! We took a group photo and boarded it was a loooong walk through the hall to the plane, we got settled in our seats and about to take off. The attendants were very nice and attended us very well. It felt awesome to be getting to GO!
AYCers first meeting at DFW AA gate. Hector, Danita, Melinda and Spencer
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Once I boarded my flight at 6am I felt my life changed completely! When I arrived to DFW I met my buddy and fellow AYCer Melinda from Midland, Texas. Melinda and I got to our gate to catch a flight to NYC. While finding a place to sit Melinda, found a green shirt dude! Hector a fellow AYCer from Larado, Texas was on our flight too! We sat in the waiting area and had a good little conversation. Come to find out he spoke SPANISH too! So needless to say you can guess the whole conversation turned a complete 180 degrees from English to Spanish (insert a little LOL) pobrecita Melinda when a bit later here came another AYCer Spencer from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Spencer had a dark red shirt on but thankfully he found us green shirts! We were ALL headed in the same direction our final destination? You guessed it SWITZERLAND! It was really fun to meet up with a couple of AYCers before we met the entire group. We got to chat and got to know one another a bit before take off. We all sat in different locations in the plane with the exception of Melinda and I we had seats together. I also found out there were a few other AYCers at DFW but on different airlines, we'd soon meet up within a few hours. Thankful for Facebook, we find out who's where and what. A three and half hour flight later we landed at JFK in New York city! It was very awesome to see city from the air, central park I couldn't see Lady Liberty but I did see the entire city wow it was amazing I've never been to New York City before and to see it from the air was more exciting. We got to the gate and the guys were waiting for us to go the Swiss LX terminal but the first stop was to get luggage although Spencer and I had had ours sent all the way through to Geneva Melinda and Hector had to pick there's up. We got kinda lost and we couldn't find our way to the tram very confusing but thankfully we had a few good navigators who got us to the right place! We got to Swiss LX terminal and met with a few fellow AYCers and got all checked in. A bit later the rest of the group arrived and we had a group meeting and Bro. Mann gave us our badges and we ALL headed to the gate to take us to Geneva...yep! Group A a group of about 54 and five chaperones. The other group (B) and 21 young people and two chaperones had already left from Washington, D.C. We had a little wait and everyone was anxiously waiting to board, we all got to know one another and it sure felt like we knew each other for a very long, long time! Many of us from different parts of the US. Although, my group was just half of the entire AYC group it was pretty big! We took a group photo and boarded it was a loooong walk through the hall to the plane, we got settled in our seats and about to take off. The attendants were very nice and attended us very well. It felt awesome to be getting to GO! 
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