Our story - part I

Please find below the first part of the story which we're going to write together over the next couple of weeks. Each student in the lower intermediate group will write one short part (the word limit is 120-200 words). Let me begin...

It was her first intercontinental flight, but Alejandra didn’t have the slightest bit of worry. Maybe apart from the fact that all she could say in English was one single word: water. Difficult to believe, yes, but that’s what she told me. Why hadn’t she taken a short course before coming over? I don’t know, I never asked. She might have thought she was moving to Dublin in order to learn English, so why would she study at home before coming here to study?