Rough Trip for Coach Edwards

Coach Edwards sent me this email on Tuesday about her trip so far playing with the Jamaican National Team. I hope it gets better from here!

We started off around 5:30am at the airport in Kingston (which is the city where we were staying). It took us 25 minutes to get to the airport but, upon arrival, we noticed the rest of our group was running a bit behind. We were then way ahead of schedule so we sat patiently waiting for the other four members of our group to show up. When they arrived we went to the ticket counter to check in as a group. The woman behind the counter told us that our tickets were not paid for. It seems as if Chile, after initially booking the flight from Montego Bay (which is on the north coast and hours away) did not pay for the connecting flight from Kingston. At this point, I was losing it. I had gotten up at 4:45am and was looking forward to the trip. We finally got the ticket issue under control only to run into a four and a half hour layover in Montego Bay. The airport is under construction so the air conditioning was out and we were all sweating from transporting our bags from one side of the airport to the other for a connecting flight. After reaching Atlanta, I found out we had a five hour layover and my cell phone was packed in my luggage which was being sent straight to Chile. I was really not liking the fact that I had to beg a call, especially since all the other players were on their phones. The flight from Atlanta to Santiago, Chile was nine hours and thirty minutes. I had an exit row which made my life so much easier and the ride more pleasant. I slept for most of the flight only waking up to eat and stretch. When we got to Santiago, we had to wait four hours before our next flight and we all went to the assigned gate to sit and wait for our flight. After three hours, the man at the counter came and asked us where we were flying to and we told him. He walked away as if everything was fine so we just continued to sit there. After a while, we saw a line and people were boarding the flight which to us was boarding late only to find out it was not our flight because they changed the gate and we didn't hear the announcement. Our Spanish is not that great and the guy did not even advised us of the change even though he knew we were waiting to get to another city. We had to rush to our gate and the plane was pulling away from the gate. We begged and they brought the plane back and we were allowed to board. After being seated, we noticed the plane was not moving and there was some weird sound coming from it. After 40 minutes, they asked us to leave the plane because of mechanical problems. I think the Jamaican National team may have stopped a disaster. We ended up waiting another four hours for a new plane. It took me over a day to get to my final destination here in Valdivia. We got in and found out that the hotel we were in was not the same one we were sent the information on. We are in a two star hotel and the USA,Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico are in a nice four star. Only us and Cuba are in this crap hole and it is just not acceptable. They fed us two dry boiled potatoes and meat-loaf without sauce for dinner. I am about to lose weight here if they keep this up. I keep dreaming of the food the USA is enjoying at their hotel. It so happens that the US bought out 30 single rooms so the two caribbean teams were kicked to the bad hotel. The gym is freezing and I am so missing my Radford girls right now.
Coach Edwards

awwwww Coach Edwards we miss you too!