7/3 The Plane

So, the plane portion of the trip. I’m going to mainly explain what I did on the plane for now. I sat on the plane next to Jason, window seat. My row was on top of the wing. (: Next to Jason was Joshua. When we first got on the plane, Joshua was reading the newspaper, Jason staring into space, and I was just sitting there. This is my second time riding with Eva Air. My first time wasn’t that great. The food was really bad and I ate instant noodles the whole time. How appetizing. But this time was much better. Everyone had their own TV and the leg room was bigger. The table we had had a hole in it to hold our drink. It was an actual hole so that the drink stays in place, unlike United Airlines, where it’s just a dent in the table. I sat in my seat ready to go. But, we had to wait a long time until we actually started moving. When the plane finally took off, I fell sleep. Our group had said, no sleeping for the first five hours (so that we wouldn’t get jetlag). But I got bored and fell asleep. Shortly after I felt something poking my arm. I woke up to see Jason and Josh poking me saying, “You fell asleep.” Soon after, we had dinner. Surprisingly, Jason, Josh and I ordered the same meal and drink: chicken and rice with Sprite. The chicken was alright, the rice tasted like plastic, but still better than the elementary lunch meals. During dinner, I was doing Sudoku with Jason…or helping him. After dinner, I watched 17 Again. My friends kept telling me that it was a really good movie. At that time I was thinking well, that’s because Zac Efron’s in it…But when I saw that it was on, I thought I’ll check it out myself. So I watched it, and it wasn’t too bad. Not a type of movie I would prefer to watch, but…Anyways, after the movie I saw that Jason and Josh were all sleeping. So I thought I would take a nap too. Okay, sleeping in a tight space wasn’t a big deal, but I had to find a way so that my feet weren’t on the floor the whole time. My feet start to heart after a while if I sleep in a sitting position. So I tried curling up on my seat with my feet on the seat. But the seat was too small and my feet started sliding off. Then, I tried lifting my feet and resting it on the armrest in front of me. That worked best but the space was only big enough for one of my feet to fit, so that didn’t work either. I didn’t know what I did next, but I managed to fall asleep. So, I usually don’t tell people what I dream about, but for the purpose of this blog I’m willing to share. It was a really weird dream, which is part of the reason why I woke up. First, I was in the white place. It was like I was in a light bulb, a bright white place. Then suddenly, I saw all my favorite desserts in front of me. Mmmm….desserts. I love cake: chocolate mousse, mango mousse, ice cream cake. But in the dream, no matter how much I tried I couldn’t reach the cakes or any of the desserts. I tried with all my might. Then all of a sudden the cakes came to life, and I had to fight them or else they would eat me. It was weird because at the time I remember thinking Whoa, this is weird. So I woke up and found Jason and Josh playing games like Pong. I ignored my dream and played games too. I played Mahjong, Sudoku, and other games. I fell asleep again. Then it was breakfast where Josh, Jason and I ordered the same things again: omelet and apple juice. It was pretty funny. Basically the whole flight was eat, sleep, play games, watch movies, sleep, and sleep some more. The plane ride is just the first part of a three week journey. :)

~AW