Walking through the rain with my boots on
soooo,
My first post from Africa, I haven’t actually landed yet, but I’m staring into the desert, somewhere between Egypt and Tanzania. currently I’m looking at a bunch of fields (from my window seat (A) in row 34, behind the wing), while chewing on some luxery nuts (insert bad joke here), every once in a while you see a few houses passing by, must be a hard life down there. theres a lot of dust in the air so the pictures won’t be that spectacular.
lets rewind a little bit…
Schiphol Airport 8AM, I arrived (my train was a little late) and handed in my bag (which was 20,4kg because of those boots), after that I got me a coffee and a sandwich and I even found a power outlet to charge my laptop battery, after 20 minutes I walked to the meeting point where some of the crew members were already waiting. But Marloes was still waiting for her passport, the person who had it was stuck in traffic but made it just in time. After saying our goodbyes we proceeded to the passport check and walked to the gate (E6) on my way there I purchased some snacks. nothing exciting happened, everything went as planned.
The food on the plane has been pretty good, it’s almost like they’re trying to fatten us up for the long stay in Africa, but I’m not complaining. So far Beer and I killed time by watching part of a movie and a tv-episode, some reading and a good game of chess (Beer won). we also played “guess the movie” which beer also won (the correct answer was rush hour 3), but only because he cheated and looked in the magazine.
I spend some time talking to a Danish woman (who’s sitting in seat C, her husband is from Tanzania and she had some inside information, she told me there will be a lot of Mosquitoes, so I’m feeling much better about my purchases. She also warned me about the amount of dust in dar es sallaam and what it could do to your electronics.
We just entered what looks like some sort of storm, a blue cloud, and the turbulance is picking up a little. Beer is playing with the camera college provided us with, he just flashed himself in his eyes, and this is the person I chose to spend 10 weeks with… guess I’ll eat some more nuts and dream about walking through the rain with my boots on.