So I arrived in Paris monday morning at 8:15am after an always eventful standby experience. I was trying for two flights, bolth leaving at 8pm from montreal. Paris and Frankfurt. The Paris flight was over sold by 20 seats and there was 10 other standby passengers trying to get on with a higher priority than me. So, I booked for the Frankfurt and it looked like I had a good chance...."come back at 7pm and wait to see if your name gets called". So I came ...

SO here is perhaps the first entry before Michael arrives to Switzerland. It's been 3 weeks that I have been in Switzerland, anxiously waiting for Michael to arrive. Questions of uncertaintey arise: Will he show? When? And now BA-day has arrived (Beginning Adventure day): he shall try to catch his first stand-by plane today! So if we're lucky, he will get on a plane today and by tomorrow morning he will be in Euope somewhere either in France or in Germany. Whi...