Homecoming Eve

Janna's plane gets into DFW at 6:25 pm 8/10/2010, tomorrow night. Daniel volunteered to drive (thank you!) so we plan on picking her up after she goes through customs, then out to eat, then home. Tim has a dinner meeting at the hospital which works out nicely. Fun fact: The flight from Dallas, Texas to London, England (United Kingdom) is 4742 Miles, lasting approximately 10.25 hours.

I feel like I know Janna better after reading her daily blog which is a pleasant surprise because we are good friends. I am immensely grateful to the professors and students that went along on the trip, the staff at Christ Church, the taxi driver that made sure she made it into her dorm safely after going to the London Swing Dance Society meeting, her "mom away from home" that gave her life advice and took care of her and her room, the docents that dressed up in costume, the Globe Theater actors, the staff at Baylor that took care of all the trip details, the travel agency, the cooks and waiters on the train... the list is endless and I will no doubt remember more after I post this. I am grateful for Tim's support giving Janna the gift of studying abroad. I am grateful to family and friends who love and pray for her.

Thank you Lord for watching over Janna and the Baylor in Oxford group and please grant them safe passage home.

Janna called

Janna emailed to say that she would be available to Google video chat at 5 pm today. She would call me first to let me know that she was on her computer. She called a little after 5 pm to say that the dorm internet service connection was temporarily down, but that we could talk on the phone. She has a Vodafone that costs ~ 5 euros for 100 international minutes. So we talked for thirty wonderful minutes. She is sleeping well, eating healthy and from what I gather walking a great deal. She misses bacon and Schmaltz's sandwiches. Today she saw the Globe Theater Company perform Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" that was on tour in Oxford - she laughed a lot. Brooke and Maddee are her traveling companions when free time permits. She will ask Dr. Hanks how the Inklings got their name per request from Papa Da who thinks that it is because they used ink to write their stories. Janna surmised that could be it combined with (she used another phrase - can't recall) the term "I have an inkling of an idea." Tomorrow they are studying C.S. Lewis where he once taught classes.