Atrasadas! (Delayed!) Uma atualização: MAIS atrasos! (An update: MORE delays!)

O C-17 quebrado!
 

Sol, Elisa e eu estamos a caminho da Antártida mas estamos atrasadas. Ontem não voamos por causa do mau tempo na Estaçåo McMurdo. Hoje não voamos por causa do avião. Nosso C-17 está quebrado. Ele precisa de uma peça que precisa ser transportada dos EUA para a Nova Zelândia. Vai levar um ou dois dias para chegar. 

Sol, Elisa and I are heading to Antarctica, but we are delayed. Yesterday, we didn't fly because of bad weather in McMurdo Station. Today, we didn't fly because of the airplane. Our C-17 is broken. It needs a part that has to be transported from the US to New Zealand. It will take one or two days to arrive.

Sol Juarez Rivera, eu e Elisa Merz

Hoje à noite, vamos ficar no hotel perto do aeroporto. Posso ver o C-17 quebrado da minha janela! Mas amanhã não há quartos para nós. Precisamos ir para um hotel que fica a duas horas de ônibus do aeroporto. Vinte pessoas que querem voar para a Antártida estão pegando o ônibus conosco. Vamos ficar lá até que a peça chegar e o avião ser consertado. Espero que nossa estadia seja curta! <<Atualização: Estamos atrasados ainda mais! Não vamos voar até sábado ou talvez segunda-feira ou treça-feira se o tempo estiver tão ruim quanto o previsto! Vou cozinhar Cozinhamos o jantar de Thanksgiving para todos no hotel (com a ajuda dos meus novos amigos).>>

Tonight, we are staying in a hotel near the airport. I can see the broken C-17 from my window! But tomorrow there aren't rooms for us. We have to go to a hotel that is a 2 hour trip on the bus from the airport. Twenty people who want to fly to Antarctica are going on the bus with us. We will stay there until the part arrives and the airplane is fixed. I hope our stay is short! <<Update: We are delayed even more. We won't fly until Saturday or maybe Monday or Tuesday if the weather is as bad as predicted! I'm going to fix We fixed Thanksgiving Dinner for everyone at the hotel (with help from my new friends)>>

Jantar de Thanksgiving

 


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