I have one hell of a massive headache =|
Weell. It turns out I'm not going to Europe. It's a long story. If you want to waddle through it....
So, my best friend and I have been planning this trip since the start of this school year (fall 08) I didn't have a lot of money so we'd workedout that she'd help cover what I didn't have and that I'd pay her back after the trip. And so, we've been excited about it. The only problem being: we never really got together to organize really what we were doing other than we were doing it. Phone conversations didn't really work because that would require getting a hold of my best friend which, ahahahaha, is almost impossible if you know her especially during the school semester. So, a while later we finally figured out to call a travel agency and book our plane flights and train pass. That happened maybe at the beginning of the Spring semester. After that we needed to plan the trip, which I'll admit I didn't help at all. The main reasons I was looking forward to visiting Europe was meeting some friends I have there, but they're going on their own vacation so we'd miss them. The other reason I was going was just to hang out with her. So that being said. I was rather un-helpful with the planning and the hostel staying since I was cool with pretty much anything. But when she got back into town, a week before we were scheduled to leave, it came out that she didn't have her passport. When she'd asked me about mine I'd said that I already had mine since my trip to Taiwan a few years back, so I didn't need one. I told her to put a rush on hers when she did order it.... she didn't so it hasn't arrived. This trip would have been my first non-family trip. So, I was freaking out a little. My parents had been pressuring me for a schedule that didn't really exist. My friend said she'd keep me updated about the passport thing, and we'd made a backup plan for incase she didn't get her passport. I'd buy a plane ticket down to Dallas to make our original flight; while she would fly to somewhere else in Texas to have a passport made or to pick up her exisitng one--instead of driving down together. But every deadline she set for knowing whether or not it'd arrive, I was alway the one that had to make the call. It was on one of these occasions that I found out our trip maybe pushed back because of a death in the family. I honestly wish she could have left a message or a short text message letting me know instead of making me make all the phone calls to know about updates.(I feel really bad about that, but at the same time for such a BIG trip, it shouldn't be that hard to let me know when something big happened) After she told me I asked her to let me know how it's going to work out, and in a series of text messages I found out it'd be an additional $375 to change the tickets per person. Money that I could have spent on hostels and other things. She said I could go ahead, but since it was really about hanging out with her....I told her that if we had to change it I couldn't make it because as is, it's already straining my budget. She worked it out with her family that if her passport arrived that she'd go a head and go. Her passport didn't arrive today. I made the decision not to go. *sigh* Now she's pissed at me. I'm paying her the "$500" that it took for her to cancel my tickets and replace them with a different friend. I have a headache from hell going through all this today. I hate the confrontations I had today and well I hate confrontations period. But horribly enough I feel oddly relieved by this all ending. The rest of the money that I was going to use for the trip can now go towards paying for my double major and the supplies I need for it. It can also go towards me moving out and living on my own- since that was another problem of the trip- I didn't really feel comfortable dealing with a different environment on my own yet. Now I'm going to down a painkiller for the headache and maybe go get some fresh air.
So, my best friend and I have been planning this trip since the start of this school year (fall 08) I didn't have a lot of money so we'd workedout that she'd help cover what I didn't have and that I'd pay her back after the trip. And so, we've been excited about it. The only problem being: we never really got together to organize really what we were doing other than we were doing it. Phone conversations didn't really work because that would require getting a hold of my best friend which, ahahahaha, is almost impossible if you know her especially during the school semester. So, a while later we finally figured out to call a travel agency and book our plane flights and train pass. That happened maybe at the beginning of the Spring semester. After that we needed to plan the trip, which I'll admit I didn't help at all. The main reasons I was looking forward to visiting Europe was meeting some friends I have there, but they're going on their own vacation so we'd miss them. The other reason I was going was just to hang out with her. So that being said. I was rather un-helpful with the planning and the hostel staying since I was cool with pretty much anything. But when she got back into town, a week before we were scheduled to leave, it came out that she didn't have her passport. When she'd asked me about mine I'd said that I already had mine since my trip to Taiwan a few years back, so I didn't need one. I told her to put a rush on hers when she did order it.... she didn't so it hasn't arrived. This trip would have been my first non-family trip. So, I was freaking out a little. My parents had been pressuring me for a schedule that didn't really exist. My friend said she'd keep me updated about the passport thing, and we'd made a backup plan for incase she didn't get her passport. I'd buy a plane ticket down to Dallas to make our original flight; while she would fly to somewhere else in Texas to have a passport made or to pick up her exisitng one--instead of driving down together. But every deadline she set for knowing whether or not it'd arrive, I was alway the one that had to make the call. It was on one of these occasions that I found out our trip maybe pushed back because of a death in the family. I honestly wish she could have left a message or a short text message letting me know instead of making me make all the phone calls to know about updates.(I feel really bad about that, but at the same time for such a BIG trip, it shouldn't be that hard to let me know when something big happened) After she told me I asked her to let me know how it's going to work out, and in a series of text messages I found out it'd be an additional $375 to change the tickets per person. Money that I could have spent on hostels and other things. She said I could go ahead, but since it was really about hanging out with her....I told her that if we had to change it I couldn't make it because as is, it's already straining my budget. She worked it out with her family that if her passport arrived that she'd go a head and go. Her passport didn't arrive today. I made the decision not to go. *sigh* Now she's pissed at me. I'm paying her the "$500" that it took for her to cancel my tickets and replace them with a different friend. I have a headache from hell going through all this today. I hate the confrontations I had today and well I hate confrontations period. But horribly enough I feel oddly relieved by this all ending. The rest of the money that I was going to use for the trip can now go towards paying for my double major and the supplies I need for it. It can also go towards me moving out and living on my own- since that was another problem of the trip- I didn't really feel comfortable dealing with a different environment on my own yet. Now I'm going to down a painkiller for the headache and maybe go get some fresh air.