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FAX 2008 Arrival Day International Participants: You will arrive in the United States through a “port of entry.” The entry points vary for all five countries represented in the program. We are sending a staff member of the ASB FAX program to meet and greet you in the city in which you arrive. Here is the list of staff members by port: July 8th: Nigeria Atlanta Todd Hall (Cell: 979-422-3819) July 9th: Venezuela Miami Jason Sosa (Cell: 979-575-3254) Turkey Houston Michael Sagas and Gregg Bennett (Cell: 979-575-8764) Indonesia Minneapolis Lisa Gorzycki (Cell: 979-229-9965) Russia Atlanta Lisa Gorzycki (Cell: 979-229-9965) When you arrive at your respective “port of entry” you will each get your bags and go through U.S. Customs and Immigration. *Reminder: Foreign visitors traveling to the U.S. have their two index fingers scanned and a digital photograph taken to match and authenticate their travel documents at the port of entry. After you clear Immigration and Customs you will recheck your bags (typically right after you leave Customs there is a baggage check area for those traveling through on U.S. Domestic airlines…which all of you are except for participants from Turkey). After you recheck your bag, you will enter the airport lobby/waiting area. The individuals listed above will be there to greet you at this point. Please look for the logo that appears on the website (the six country flags with the Texas A&M University logo in the middle) as you enter this area. The staff person there to greet you will be holding a sign with the logo. The staff member will then escort you to your next flight in the domestic concourse. The staff member may even board the same flight with you and accompany you on your flight to Houston (for two pick ups the staff member will take a different flight back to Houston). RUSSIAN PARTICIPANTS: Please note that your escort (Lisa) will not arrive in Atlanta until 7:25 PM and you will arrive in Atlanta at 4:30PM. Thus, after you go through Customs and Immigration, you can go directly to your next gate to board your flight to Houston (IAH)....Lisa will look for you there after she arrives at the airport. When you arrive in Houston, proceed to baggage claim. Dr. Bennett and I will be in baggage claim area (along with other staff members) to assist you with your bags and get you on the van to College Station. The drive from Houston to College Station is about 1.5 hours. A staff member will drive you to the dorm and assist you with check in there also. Please note that I will not distribute any funds for meals and incidentals until July 11. Please bring along enough funds to make it through this arrival day. The first van should arrive to The Tradition dorm at 4PM this day. The last group will arrive at 10:30 PM this day. We have scheduled our orientation session for July 10. You will get an outline of the program along with the guidelines for funds distribution on that day. I will also distribute your first installment of meal funds that afternoon ($300). Remember to LOOK for the logo to find your greeter:
American Participants: For those that are flying, each of you will arrive in either Houston or College Station on the afternoon of July 8. C. Keller 12:25 PM Arrival to College Station (Lisa Gorzycki will greet) M. Kimmel 1:18 PM Arrival to IAH (J.D. Wood and Ryan Stephens will greet and drive to CS) K. Davies 1:18 PM Arrival to IAH (J.D. Wood and Ryan Stephens will greet and drive to CS) C. Baker 6:50 PM Arrival to College Station (M. Hermann will greet) Contact Numbers for each greeter should you need to contact us: Ryan Stephens Cell 936-661-6548 Lisa Gorzyki Cell 979-229-9965 J.D. Wood Cell 936-355-1399 Mabrie Hermann Cell 254-722-8408 Please proceed to baggage claim after you arrive in Houston or College Station and look for the staff member listed holding the ASB FAX Logo on a sign. We will assist you with your bags and board you on a van. Please see the note above related to funds on the 8th. Your meal and cultural funds will not be issued to you until the 10th. So please bring along enough meal funds for the 8th and 9th. N. Garcia is driving from San Antonio to College Station on the 9th and will arrive in the late afternoon at the Tradition Dorm. J.D. Wood and Mabrie Hermann will be greeting Nick at the dorm. Note that we will have two staff members at the The Tradition dorm to assist you with your bags and get your keys, etc. They can show you where to eat (there are numerous great restaurants right across the street from the dorm). We will start our orientation session on the 10th at 1 PM. Your welcome packet at the dorm will give you the full itinerary for that day and protocol for getting on the vans and/or walking over to our sessions each morning, etc. |
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