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Today is a great day for all of my dreams seem to be coming to fruition.  I have been planning this big trip to go on home building and teacher education program with about fifty students from my department since september and I finally think it has all fallen in to place.  We have had contact with all of the organizations in Europe and Africa where our trip would go to work and help.  The problems we faced were finding cheap international airfaresUp until about a month ago we had absolutely everything figured out except for the airfare.  Our schedule was laid out and we had looked at every major airline we could find.  The problem arose when we compared the prices we would get to our budget.  The two did now come out on the right side of zero.  So we have been checking daily on all of the cheap international flights listings to find any kind of discount airfare.  We had even talked to airlines and they gave us a bit of a discount but it still wasn’t enough. We had basically been stranded before we ever even got to the airport or bought our tickets.  I could find plenty of scattered cheap flights on the days we needed to move, but we have fifty people and that many seats are hard to find at that low a price.  I was actually considering cutting the later registered students because it just didn’t look as if I could get it to work out.  That all changed when I went back to one particular cheap international airfares web site.  I went through my usual routine of entering in all our data and what I saw in front of me was unbelievable.  A whole day’s worth of cheap international flights had opened up and lined up perfectly with what we needed to fill in for. I can’t even begin to say how happy I was at that moment.  Now I am reserved again and ready to get to the work at hand.  I have four finals next week and then it is right off to France for our first teaching workshop.