Proliferation of my Mind (Kyle in Burkina Faso)

So I'm sitting here at the nice Pittsburgh airport waiting on a flight to Philadelphia. Total time today that has been spent not traveling to Philly is at 7 hours and counting (Neil and I have estimated 8.5 total will be spent delayed). By the way, Neil Lepsetz, is another Burkina bound Peace Corps member (who is also going to teach math as well, woot!) who by chance was on my flight to Philly that was delayed, and we by happen chance found each other in the hussle and bussle of trying to figure out "What was actually going to happen to us."

Today's Journey:
6:40 - Arrive at Kalamazoo International Airport.
8:13 - Left Kalamazoo for Detroit.
9:30 - Arrived at Detroit.
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Where I then spent an hour delay. That then turned into a two hour delay.
12:00 (ish) - Finally took off from Detroit to Philadelphia.
Then our pilot proceeded to fly aimlessly around Philly for 30 minutes. Running out of fuel decided to land in Pittsburgh. Neil and I became aquainted and then proceeded to probe SATO (our Peace Corps travel agency for an hour). Having then the option to fly back to Detroit or take a Coach Bus. Both options leaving us very late in the evening. And frankly neither of us enjoying the service of the Delta Airline (though the stewardesses were very nice, and one let me use her cell phone, but overall helpful and I appreciated it.)

Finally though we came to the conclusion that Delta Airline is not the most friendly airline (as per our situation). So now we are both sitting here waiting for our new flight through U.S. Airlines which (was delayed as well, but still actually going), and is to be departing soon at 6:45PM.

So. I'm at the airport posting this. So that everyone at home can know. The moral to the story is: As Peace Corps volunteers. One must be very flexible.

Update: I finally made it to Philadelpia to the Hampton Inn downtown. Though it was 12 hours behind schedule, missing all of the beginning introductions and group activities. Missed the opportunity to finish paperwork (Bummer). But now it's the early morning, the morning before the "long" flights.