Thursday
7:35 pm
The sky was clear. The sun's brightness covering everything in its path. Including the planes that came into view from the top of the window. Its make unidentifiable through the blinds. As it flew away further, the blinds rolled down, startling anyone near it. I watched through what was left of the uncovered window, and saw the men working alongside an aircraft, making themselves seem puny. I looked up towards the heaven again, but this time a cloud came over.....and it brought with it, a whole armada of clouds. It soon turned grey, and suddenly, without warning, it started to rain. It felt dark....and sad. I had just left my girlfriend, whom I just started having a relationship with, less than a week ago. I guess I felt miserable already. Played around with my half-finished can of Monster Energy Drink. This would have been my 2nd for the day. Focusing back on the weather, you could tell it was windy outside...as if a storm had just brewed up. Finished my drink and pissed off the remains of my earlier one. I went back to my seat to find the weather had turned nice again. That same sunshine, now giving its warmth to everything (and everyone) that had been exposed to the rain. It wasn't till after maybe 10 minutes when a voice over the P.A. announced that Continental flight 2389 with service to Newark was now boarding.
Kept her on my mind and how far I must be from her. Had also thought of what I would be doing in the near future.....what I would be doing, in the distant future. It should have been a joyous occasion. I'm finally getting into the national guard, getting military experience, but being away from the person I dearly love....and loves me back. Going, and rising up through the clouds, it felt like a dream. Being as close to heaven as you could. If only I was outside, just flying all by myself, reaching out to God. And the sunshine on all the cloud cover, and the shadows with the same forms of the clouds above against beautiful green landscape. With hills here and there, just another place that I wished I could take her.
About an hour and a half, I was beginning to see residential areas and schools. I tried amusing myself by trying to spot individuals on the ground or cars moving on a chosen road. And most roads I chose were empty. So my fun level was about to go down when we were suddenly flying parallel to a large city with tall buildings. One in particular looked alot like the Empire State. I thought to myself, is Newark really that close to New York City? I knew beforehand that Jersey was sort of the sub-city or suburb to New York city. But I was gonna brush it off my mind when I saw the harbour...............and then I saw something incredible; The Statue....of Liberty! I was thankful for being seated all the way into the rear, because my mouth hung open and eyes wide in awe. I thought to myself, "OH.........MY...........GOSH". I saw that recognizable aqua-bluish colour on that little island. I'll never forget it. Quickly, my thoughts shifted to the building that I saw. IT WAS THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING! Yes, yes, you may say that it's no big deal and that I'm overreacting. But I've not seen many famous places, things, or people. So yeah, cut me some slack will ya?
Now, picture this; there can be around 10,000 ants in an ant colony. That's how I felt when I stepped out of the terminal transit of Newark's airport. It might have been because it was a saturday, but there just seemed to be an awful big wave of people, and more were coming in through the front doors. Even so, the lines for the security checkpoint weren't bad. Of course, they had to open up a new scanner station to accommodate more people. After I went through, I looked all around and observed my surroundings. All I could conclude of it was, that this was the single biggest gathering of Americans that I've been in. Not that I'm racist, they just seem different to me. I don't seem to know why. Wasn't long till I found my gate. Found it after standing on the moving floors. Don't really know what to call them. Flat escalators? Whatever it's called, I always enjoyed them. As I sat down, I noticed that I am among Danes now. I guess it shouldn't be a surprise since we all assumed we were Danes when we're waiting for the same flight that would fly to Copenhagen, Denmark. Of course, there were other nationalities as well such as Swedes and even Americans. I think I waited for about 40 minutes till we were let in. I had an aisle seat. No, not the ones where they're in the middle. The Boeing 757 had only 2 rows of 3 seats on either side. The 2 other seats were for a couple. I couldn't understand what they were saying, so I took them for either Greeks, or Italians.....not sure. Annoying P.A. announcements soon followed with recordings of the safety instructions and general rules in both english and danish. It was kind of annoying. Even the pilot was annoying when he got on. He kept saying that our estimated flight time would be "7 hours and 7 minutes". After we took off, I immediately watched a movie that I browsed through before even moving. I watched the "A-team", which was pretty good. I haven't personally watched the old series, but this film was pretty decent. Not the best, but pretty decent. Good storyline, acting, and effects. I had also watched "Enemy of the State", which I have watched before along with some hilarious episodes of "House, md". There were instances where I wanted to crack out loud. Meals were good and overall rating of Continental airlines is pretty good. I liked it.
About 15 minutes to landing, I looked out the window, and saw Denmark for the first time in 2 months. The weather was the usual Danish weather: Cloudy. After getting my luggage, I waited for about 45 minutes till my landlady finally found me and drove me back "home". 8:30 am, and I was back in my room. I checked my closet to find the USB drive a friend of mine had left me, containing a digital copy of "The Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day". It's a shame that he had already left Denmark. He was sort of my best friend, if not, a really, really good friend to me. Especially in this house. We would keep each other company almost every single day. We were each other's gaming buddy. I decided not to sleep (as it was around 8:30 am which is 2:30 am in Toronto), because I needed to adjust to the timezone immediately. So, I went to church and caught up with friends. I had picked up a pack of beef jerky for another friend of mine. Another female friend came up to me and asked if I had gotten her chocolate. I was speechless and kind of ashamed. I remembered to bring beef jerky to one friend when I did say that I would bring chocolate as well. I had simply forgotten. After church, it was time to hit the hay. In total, I had stayed awake for 33 hours. That's the longest I've been able to do. I guess drinking 2 Monster Energy drinks can help....along with seat mates who take the armrest for themelves on a plane.
Although with the technological breakthrough of the Internet to enable us to stay in touch with our loved ones, it's not the same. Oh, how I long for her presence. Her touch, her smell, her face. Oh how I miss feeling her through holding her and embracing her.
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