3rd, 4th, 5th September, 2012.
I said bye to my family and friends in Malawi. Deep down my heart I was scared but I couldn't let my face show so, I kept smiling, all through the airport, hugs and kisses and byes and then the plane. Whoa! it was my first plane ride and it was a 32 hours 19 minutes trip so yeah, "U go girl". It all started to go wrong., my plane was delayed and I knew, the schedule was already going wrong. From Malawi, we were supposed to land in Addis Ababa, i know I just started using we, it is Oscar, Tionge and Me, we were on this trip together. Those 2 are boys, well maybe men, and I was/am the lady. Back to the story, so yeah, apparently when we got to Ethiopia we could not land due to bad weather so we had to stay in the air. I was like what? Already, i barely understand how something so big as an aeroplane can fly in the air and never get lost or crash, or something and now i have to just stay in the air??? I did though, but after some hours of moving around in circles, they decided to land us in Djibouti. if you haven't figured this out, i will help, that was a second delay and this messed up our schedule even more.
We landed in Djibouti at 10:10PM and started off for Addis again at 2:15Am, imagine that. stuck in a plane, with people from all over the world, others would say they feel hot the same time others were saying they feel cold and the plane crew had to make this a conducive environment for everyone. There was no food, no drinks left and you could barely sleep, it was chaotic. I survived. The shaking, the taking off, and the landing of the plane were my weakest points. I never got sick though, I just squeezed the guy next to me, I won't tell who, am embarrassed ,lol. i kept praying for Gods breakthrough, in this terrible weather condition and when we finally landed in Addis I was like Yippee, He heard me. even though Malawi National soccer team, beats Djibouti almost all the time, our national airport is pathetic when compared to Djibouti's and i viewed Djibouti's through the planes window.
At Addis Ababa, finally, we had to run all the way through checkpoints and staff because we got delayed big time. This airport was big, i barely knew where I was going half the time. i kept following my guys, who were following some guys, how does that sound? Eventually we went aboard the BIGGER plane, at that moment i was like "oh my goodness! i love my life". i sat down, and practically touched and used everything next to me. It didn't matter whether I knew the use or not but I trusted they couldn't put something in my seat or by my seat that would kill me, great faith in Ethiopian Airways hey. At this point i was missing my family, this is my real family, the one am a part of and my other family, the one that is going to be my own family, which i will make others a part of and my friends. I so much wanted to share these moments with them.
We landed in Rome and the weather that side wasn't good so we couldn't start off, that was being delayed again. I was so hungry at some point, my ears could go numb, all these people with babies reminded me of Leroy, my 6 months old boyfriend and I missed home even more. The more it rained , the more the aircraft shook and the more i hated it. After, I have forgotten how many hours of flying, we landed in Washington Dulles and this is where the Journey begins. Stay with me:)
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