Sunday, July 14, 2013

Flying Across Earth


Hello! I have been officially on the other side of the world for 7 jam-packed days and so far it’s been sweet as.

Well my adventure started in the air when I took off from Hartford and landed in DC. The plane was late, and my connector to LA was only 20 minutes after I was supposed to land in DC.  I lost my carry on, which had to be stowed under the plane.  I got off the plane and walked to the terminal not knowing I had to stand next to the plane and wait for my luggage.  After some minutes of panicking I was directed to RUN back to the plane before they took it away and what do you know; my little carry on was sitting next to the plane all by itself.  I RAN to get it since my connector was set to leave in 10 minutes time and I still had no idea what gate I was supposed to be at.  I got charged by several men screaming that I was in an unsafe area and had to leave immediately…..why my luggage was set there then I am not sure but I actually grabbed it anyway and just started running because I was NOT about to miss my connector.

I sat next to a dog on the plane to LA.

Once in LA I was able to eat for the first time in 13 hours and then my plane was off! I had a window seat and an empty seat to my left and another girl who was in my program in the isle seat.  I immediately tried to sleep so I ended up missing the provided dinner but I got a total of 6 and a half hours of sleep that flight so I am thankful for that.  I woke up with my left knee feeling like it got shot at 36 times…I don’t know what happened but it actually took around 3 days for it to stop killing me, and even now it will occasionally start hurting again.  Other than that the plane was HUGE and even though I was thrilled to have a window seat it was pitch black outside the entire flight so I couldn’t see anything except the occasional random pacific islands.  Since I was sleeping on and off most of the flight it wasn’t bad at all.  I actually never left my seat because I didn’t want to wake the girl in the isle seat.  Over all it was a decent flight!

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