Airport Post

(Written Sept. 6th around 4pm)

Here we go. I’m at the airport now, awaiting my 13+ hour flight to Budapest (through Stockholm). Thirty minutes left till boarding, and the plane should be off at 5:20PM. This trip brings many firsts for me – my first flight by myself, my first time staying in a foreign country for more than 2 weeks (not counting moving to the US of course), my first time spending time in a country where I don’t know the language.

I’m nervous, but also tired which tends to cancel out the nervousness. I didn’t get to bed till 4AM yesterday and was woken up around 7:30 by my mom to say goodbye. I finally got up shortly after 10 and got myself ready. Spent over an hour at a bank in Bay Ridge trying to make a deposit – one teller, 30 people waiting… how dare people take an extra long weekend after Labor Day, ya know?

Corey and Leon (my bro) took me to the airport with all my bulky luggage, that wasn’t too eventful. I said my good-byes and off I went to pretend to be all independent and responsible. The security checks weren’t any different than for any domestic flight I’ve taken, kind of disappointing. Why come to the airport a whole extra hour earlier if they don’t even frisk you any more than they normally would?

Well, what else can I say?

There’s a family sitting next to me speaking some language I don’t understand. It’s not Hungarian, but sounds close to French and close to Hungarian at the same time. Maybe it’s Swedish or Finnish? Whatever it is, they’re chatting away right over all the super important announcements from our flight’s gate.

It looks like I won’t be in an aisle OR window seat – 46B, doesn’t sound promising.

Well, I don’t know when I’ll get to post this, since I sure as hell ain’t paying airport prices for an internet connection. I’ll be in Budapest at 1:35PM Sept 7^th (Hungary time). That’s 7:35AM for you East Coast people.

Viszlat!