Airplanes

Ran across this quote on ILP's Facebook page today. I went to China with them as a volunteer English teacher, and I found it quite fitting..

"There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror" - Orson Welles

So true right?? Except I have to add 'nausea' in there..without going into too much detail, I will just say that I tend to puke on airplanes. As in 4/14 of the flights I have taken in the past couple of years have ended unfavorably. ..Okay that doesn't sound too bad, but still, those 10 times of non-sickness were each major victories on their own! A couple of nights ago I could finally own up to the fact that I get sick on airplanes first because of the movements of the plane...I don't even like roller coasters, people! And second because I am terrified. Like, every time I get on a plane I think I'm going to either perish or end up on the island like the cast of LOST. It took me a long time to admit this. I'm not scared of flying to the point that I won't do it or I hyperventilate; it's just a quiet sense of impending doom...that I get every time. It's ridiculous! I'm confident that KNOWING the problem will help me get over it. And it will be a huge help to have my husband there helping me relax, assuring me that we aren't going to die, and making me laugh. That always helps!


Reasons internationals flights are cool?


It's sort of like being babysat. There are times set aside as dinnertime where every person is fed a boxed meal, a time designated as "bedtime" when lights are turned off and everything is quiet (but good luck sleeping!).


Little pillows and thin blankets that weird you out at first but then become essential to your comfort by the end of an 11 or 12 hour flight.


MOVIES. Watch as many as you can to pass the time!


I feel the most comfortable in big planes, so these massive airplanes seating 6 people in the center aisle and 3 on each side are a huge relief to me. I just feel like they are least likely to be go down with the bigger they are! Have you ever been on a Delta Connection flight? Those little planes could be thrown off course with a teeny gust of wind!




Moral of the story: flights are necessary evils, but I vow to get better at them this trip! As if I had a choice..haha