Blog entry no. 4

“The journey, not the arrival, matters.” –Montaigne

It was eight minutes until the bell rang for the start of Christmas Break. Hands sweaty, and heart pounding Taylor sat anxiously awaiting the bell of her freedom for the next two weeks. Her family is planning on traveling all the way to Hawaii for vacation. It will be her first time there so she is extremely excited. Finally the bell rang and kids shuffled out of the classroom where they entered a very chaotic hallway. When Taylor got to her locker she realized it had jammed. This was the worst time to get a jammed locker because the office would be so busy and she wouldn't have a chance to get help fast enough to catch the bus. Once she got her locker open and her things together the buses were long gone and she was left stranded at her school during Christmas break. To fix this problem of course all she had to do was call her mom and have her come to her school to pick her up, but when her moms number went straight to voicemail she knew her mom was in a meeting. So she left a brief message and sat down on a bench and waited for a call back from her mother. An hour later her mom called said she would be right over to get her. When Taylor arrived home she went straight to her room to start packing for Hawaii. She soon found out that her new favorite t-shirt had been ruined in the wash and she wouldn't be able to take it on vacation. The next morning Taylor's family left at 4 am to head off to the airport where absolutely everything was going wrong. Her carry on bag had items that kept on triggering the alarms to go off, and then after all that trouble it turned out that her bag was too large to be a carry on. So she had to go back through security to get the bag checked so she could claim her luggage later. A little while later Taylor was sitting on giant plane with nothing to do for 12 hours. The twelve hours slowly passed and she wondered if they would ever be there. She decided to start a conversation with the girl sitting next to her. She found out that this girl was staying at the same hotel as Taylor and would be taking the same flight home too. Taylor couldn't help but smile to know the fact that they could become friends over the week. The two girls talked about everything on the ride to Hawaii and hadn't had enough of each other by the time the plane landed so for the next ten days the girls were attached at the hip and did everything together. It turned out that it seemed like the journey was taking for ever but if she hadn't taken the journey she wouldn't have came out of the experience with a new friend.