Scratch that it's now 9:36. I'm sitting in the centre of a airplane, the lights dim and blue, the air treated and stale and pitch black windows on all sides. I'm beginning the 7 hour flight to Brussels, Belgium. On my left sits Curtis watching the movie The Fighter and on my right a burly silent stranger who spends most of his time staring forward, occasionally leaning forward to eat a tictac from the pouch in the seat in front of him. Ah, no he moves- it appears he's decided to take advantage of some of the stupendous in-flight entertainment.
Today has been travel with 100% of my time being spent on airplanes or wandering airports.Due to the advice of a overly-kind attendant with a strong asian accent we managed to get quite lost. We quite literally passed the same CapitalOne booth four times walking around and ended up going through security when we had no need to. All in all however our travelling seems to be going well with only one small incident of Curtis losing his boarding pass.
Obviously I spent a good deal of time today thinking of what I have ahead of me of what I've left behind. Thing is I don't really know for sure what to expect ahead but I do know what and who I've left behind. And so I find myself lonely and missing people I probably wouldn't be missing if they weren't 1000's of miles away.
(I'll think I'll skip this next section. Nothing exciting)
But enough about love - bleh- I'm not here for love, I'm here for an experience. Maybe I'm making a big deal out of three weeks. But I don't think I am. It's the longest I've been from home (Though does distance really matter?) and I'll be in a completely foreign, strange and exciting environment.
It's now been three hours since I've written. Time passes oddly on a plane. Big burly sad guy who drinks vodka with coke next to me turned out to be super nice. We had a conversation- he's going to Africa too, Sengali in fact.
I think a problem I have is focusing too much on what I'm missing. I'll back home to my dear friends but for now I should focus on the people I'm with: Curtis, Amy, Blake, Jessica, Katie, Mrs. Cavey, and Mr. Quissy. I have so much coming ahead and I think it's time I get really really pumped.
We should land in Belgium soon. Apparently they sell beer in vending machines there :) I have to get one, if only to say I did.
-Yours always, Caleb van der Leek
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