Its 5:36pm right now, (on the flight to Madrid.. no wifi) according to the clock on my computer.
I am flying over... well I am not exactly sure where I am. Somewhere with a lot
of lights and it’s between Chicago and Madrid, still in the United States.
The Chicago skyline from above at night is absolutely
breathtaking. I was going to take a picture but I couldn’t get my camera out
fast enough and then the plane turned.
Saying goodbye today was tough but I didn’t cry THAT much.
It is rough to leave your family knowing that you cannot easily contact them or
see them in a blink of an eye like we are used to. Hopefully I will be able to
Skype them when I get to my house in Granada.
My flight from Green Bay to Chicago was about 35 minutes and
it flew by. Felt like I was only in the air for 10 minutes and we never made it
up into the clouds. I felt like I was looking at the same scenery the whole
time. That flight is A LOT shorter than the flight I’m on right now. Chicago to
Madrid, Spain. The flight is supposed to last 7 hours and 55 minutes. It is a
HUGE plane. I’m in row 39, the last row on the left side of the plane. Row 40
is the last row in the whole plane and only has 3 seats in the middle. The advantage of this is that I can lean back
as far as I want and not worry about other people or getting my seat kicked! I
should have someone next to me, but they must not have shown up or the airlines
never booked this seat. Next to me in the middle there are seats 3 wide, but
further up in the plane it is 4 wide, I believe. To their right, there are 2
more seats. Can you say HUGE! My friends are in the front section, rows 7 and
8. They were lucky and somehow got seats near each other.
There is the most adorable little kid in front of me, and he
likes to peek around the seat and smile and then hide. He even got the courage
to touch my leg and then snickered. He speaks Spanish and he is sitting next to
his dad. I am still getting used to hearing this language all the time and I am
practicing understanding what they are saying to each other. He just got a
plate of food, and I can smell the food in the back. Who knows what it will be
but the Cheetos and Doritos that I have ate aren’t going to cut it as a healthy
dinner, so hopefully I like the food. I can feel myself getting tired so I hope
they deliver the food soon so I can eat and then go to bed.
In Chicago, when I was trying to change my seat to be closer
to my friends, there was a group of 4 girls from Maine area who were also in
line and they are also studying abroad, but in Sevilla, Spain. We talked the
whole time in line and exchanged names to find each other on Facebook. There is
a possibility of meeting up with them if we travel to Sevilla or they come to
Granada.
Well I am back to munching on my chips because they are
taking longer than I expected for the food. I either am going to be served
first or last. When they handed out head phones I was last so I am hoping that
is not the case for the food. :/ They aren’t playing any movies right now, and
whatever is on the screen looks very very boring!
That’s all for now. I think I have given the update on
everything that is going on currently.
Spain bound, finally! J
