Not your ordinary MTV Spring Break

NINA SCIMENES SPORTS EDITOR NMS722@CABRINI EDU

After an 8 hour plane ride and 6 hour time change anything is possible in Europe.

Traveling abroad is an experience that will never be forgotten. This spring break I was fortunate enough to have a closer feel to what it is like to live and study in Italy.

My week overseas was not your typical MTVspring break, but it was anything but dull.

Staying in Italy was not our first choice for the week. We had the destination of Barcelona, Spain but due to our malfunctioning airplane we never made it.

My sister and I visited a good friend who is studying in Rome for the semester. From Rome we were planning on taking a trip to Barcelona but only made it 20 minutes in the air

I have done a lot of flying and never once have I been on a plane that had to turn around. 30,000 feet in the air the flight attendant made an announcement in English,“We will be landing back in Rome in about 20 minutes due to technical problems.”

After the three of us heard this announcement we did not think there was much of a problem because no one else on the plane even twitched.

Well that was changed when the flight attendant then repeated the announcement in Italian. How quickly we forgot that we were probably the only English speaking passengers on the plane. It was a very frantic situation. Many explanations were running through my head.

I was in denial that I was really on a plane that was in the middle of the ocean on a plane that was not functioning properly. After the most nerve wrecking 20 minutes of my life we landed safely in the same airport that we had just came from.