Journal: The Journey Continues

Still haven't found my pictures yet... rather the flash drive they are on... in any case here are more words.

Later

     Still waiting to board, now we are in our terminal, our boarding time is 5:05 pm. Haven't done much since I last wrote. Listened to my iPod, shopped, etc. I talked to my younger sister Saskia and my father, Brian over the phone. OK I am going to do something else now. 

4:15 pm

    OK we are boarding.

5:28 pm

     We are going up, up, up, at an angle coming out over the city, and we are almost over Lake Michigan. I know because we have these awesome TVs infront of you that show you. We are sitting next to this guy from England who talks in the most awesome accent, and told us all about London, he's really nice. I shall watch a movie now, there are so many good choices!

8:00 ish (Chicago Time)

     At the moment we are flying over the Atlantic Ocean, past Newfoundland. We are going through strong winds and the plane is quite rocky making it difficult to write. Right near Newfoundland there is a body of water called the Labrador Sea. I wonder if Labrador dogs came from there. Anyway yeah, high winds. So I really had to go to the toilet (British) so I had to totally brace myself to wash my hands, otherwise I would have fallen. Ok just cause I am still in a writing mood we are at an altitude of 38000 feet, and the outside air temperature is...

Tuesday November 12, 2009 8:54 am (British Time)

    We arrived in London at 6:30 am, an hour and a half later then we were supposed to. I slept a few hours on the plane, although I have to say the experience was not comfortable. When we finally got off the plane we where ushered like sheep into "cues" (British word for lines) and then had to go through about an hour of security checking. I was found by the detector device to be doing something bad.   It turned out though all kt was was the metal pendent U attached to a black cord that I always ware around my neck. Naima and my best friend Rachel also wear similar necklaces, except theirs have their initials, not mine. After that we went to the toilet and I cleaned my toiletry bag. My little hand sanitizer bottle leaked when the pressure from the aircraft built up on it too much. After that we went to the "mall" section of the airport and then headed for a little shop called Pert. There we spent $14.00 and got some pounds in return. (I kept some!) Together we got two crossonts, a banana, and some juice, a mint tea, and hot chocolate. Our flight does not leave till 1:30 pm. So far now we are just waiting around. OK so, I really like accents and I will get totally caught up in them, I find myself thinking and then writing down words in a British accent. Also England is very... two things. One eco friendly. For example in the bathrooms the toilet paper is like facial tissue, you just pull off a sheet. This save paper and therefore trees, as the people seem to be more aware how much toilet paper they are actually using. Two: England is interesting, but I could not stand to live here, it is cold and wet all the time and the guy we flew here with says it rains like everyday! That is way to much indoors for me. Ok Gonna go  listen to my iPod now. 

Later

    After sitting around for a bit with my mother and I went off to a little shop called acsessories. It is well named. I think it is like a British version of Claire's. Mom thinks her new haircut is aweful and so we got some clips in an attempt to make it look better. Ok I now have two rules a person should definetly follow. Number one: Never ever go on a shopping spree in the UK airport. Why? The lira (or whatever we are using) is about double the amount of a dollar, and you will go broke because the stuff sold is awesome. My second rule is never buy a wallet from the UK if you actually want to use it. I bought a pretty teal one, and then decided to see if American currency fit, it did not.

    Ok so I have this "adopted" sister from Australia. We say we are sisters because we are pretty close, and ... I don't know. We just do. She stayed at my house for a week once and even though I was sick with a 106 degree fever she let me hang out with her. One other really cool thing is that she has the exact same birthday as my half brother, Jacob. AND they are the exact same age, well really she was born first in Aussie, and so is a day ahead. Anyway i am crocheting her a orange and maroon cell phone pouch while listening to a book on my iPod. It's very fun and I think I shall now continue, but let me just write this when the plane landed my ears popped and haven't been right since. 

2:15 pm

    We are in the British Airways plane preparing for either a nine hour or eleven hour flight (the guy said both and I don't know which one he meant, the "guy" is mom and I's new seat partner). So yeah, this will be the last flying leg of out Journey. We will be taking a taxi to the ashram from the airport and I will consider that the last leg.

   We are in the air! Just before we got way too high I saw Buckingham Palace in between the clouds. It was very pretty. 

   We glide through the starlight the sky and the lights of the cities and villages sparkle from below. At the moment we are next to the Tigris River between Luewa and Dubai. We have about 3 hours and 45 minutes left until we reach the airport. I am happy to be almost there, but feeling annoyed at the moment. I feel dry, all dry. It hurts to breath, my eyes hurt from keeping them open and my butt hurts from sitting for so long.