12/27/2010
• The cabin lights come on as the sun rises, and in unison everyone wakes and rises to brush their teeth. Dental hygiene appears to be of paramount importance! I am trying to just take a pee, but am stuck behind a line of dentally conscious Indians, some barefoot. (30 min)
• Read (25 min)
• Watch India creep closer and closer. She is quite green and tropical with deep red dirt patches filling in the empty space. The clouds create a gentle pea soup veil over the land, while matzo ball mountains bud up between the interface of soup and sky. (1 hr)
After customs in Bangalore, 8hr lay over ensues:
• I try to charge my computer in a bathroom outlet and get scolded
• I pace around the tiny airport trying to stay awake. My brain is not functioning at normal speed and im quite giggly. I just realized I haven’t had a conversation with anyone (pear head man doesn’t count) since parting with my family on Christmas.
• I order coffee, and complete a crossword while sipping its blessed caffeine. 5 minutes after finishing my coffee, I fall asleep at the table! Haha not only am I a white westerner, the only person in this airport rockin the sweatpants, im also sleeping face down at a high café table.
• I wake and walk around to stimulate my body and run into an American mother. She is visiting her daughter who lives in India. You would have guessed we were best friends, because we immediately erupted into conversation. I didn’t know I had so much to say!!
• I arrive at my gate and find 5 American students cozily chatting with one another and discover they are part of my study abroad program! I have been flying with a few of them since Dallas, but we just happened to find each other in Bangalore! Crazy!
• We board the Kingfisher airline, finally!
2 hour flight to HYDERABAD!
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