From the Director IV: Travel Time!

Further advice from our leader. Please note that the attachments he mentions are in the original e-mail, not here.

Studenti,

I am attaching some of the hand-outs and the powerpoint presentation given at the orientation.

A few things to note:

1. Be at the gate at 4:30 p.m. for roll call. Find the professors for your morning classes. For those in Tim Teeter's class: if you don't see Dr. Teeter, who might be arriving a little late, then please see me. For those in Rich Pacelle's class, please see Emily Dolezal. Dr. Pacelle will already be in Italy and will meet us in Rome.

2. In Frankfurt, please stop as soon as you have walked through the walk way from the airplane to the gate. We will gather here in order to go through the Frankfurt airport as a group. At this point, I will ask you to keep close to your morning professors. (Dr. Pacelle's group will keep close to Emily.) The Frankfurt airport is large, and we only have a short window to go through customs and get to our gate. In addition, Frankfurt often changes the gate at the last minute.

3. Make the security checks go as quickly as possible. In your carry-on luggage, place items, such as belts and jewelry, that might make the security scanners go off. Do this before you arrive at the airport, rather than at the security checkpoint. (You can then put these on after you have gone through security.) In addition, wear comfortable shoes that can be taken off quickly.

4. In your carry-on luggage, make sure that you have a warm sweatshirt or sweater. Invariably, the flights are cold, leaving you shivering all night as you try to sleep.

5. Take a benadryl or something that will make you sleepy.

6. Do not drink alcohol on the flight over. Both alcohol and flying will dehydrate you.

7. Carry your medications and important documents in your carry on luggage.

8. Carry your passport on you at all times while traveling to Montepulciano.

If you have questions before we depart, please feel free to call me at home at 770-383-9715 or on my cell phone at 770-367-8688.

M. Todd Harper, PhD