As I spoke with Jayne about in the car on our way to the airport, when she asked me what my favorite part of all the places we'd been to this holiday was, - this holiday has just been filled with many winter wonderlands.
And it just keeps getting more and more white.. I was trying to look for mountains or anything that would look like Canada... how would I know anyway. I'm sure it's part of what I see.
I know for sure, though, that next time I'm going away for holiday, I want to go west or south.. preferably south. .. to Florida in Disney world, sun and swimming and dolphins.. or California with my friend Nekisa to endless sunburns.. even though I never get sunburns, just an Indian-looking tan that usually get's darker than my own father's ;)
Oh, yes... summer summer! But I for sure am looking forward to summer in NYC. Just lying in Central Park with a book.. having the window in my room wide open all day.. eating dinner and sometimes sleeping on my roof top.. that sounds good!
So about going back to school already, I have already started feeling the stress hormones coming up - the one's I always have to keep on a 'fair' level, so that I never actually fall into the actual stress disease. .. which my mum had last year, I remember she would get sick and feel dizzy, not being able to work. I don't wanna go there.. so my pledge in life is always to try keeping it down as low as I can. But ever since high school, I've always felt it there, like a part of my weekday, I just couldn't shed away from. Not all my friends have this - AT ALL.
I am aware I always put a lot of work on my shoulders. About as much as the obligatory things from school/work.. I always have the urge to do something more.
But for this semester, or as I said - these next two weeks, finishing my 1st semester - my plan will be to get as much rest as I can besides the work.
Monday I have a final exam in performance lab: performance of 2 songs perfectly from this semester
Tuesday I have a final exam in history of musical theatre: a written exam with question about almost everything (theatres, shows, all the big names in composition/directing/acting/dancing, from the golden age to now).
Friday I have a final exam in song interpretation: a performance of 6 brand new songs (can't be songs that we've worked with in other classes before) in all the genres we've been working on this semester.
.... I HOPE I'm not missing out on anything!
I'm now landing in Detroit :)
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AAnnnnd now I have landed for GOOD.My flight was cancelled. Ok... deep breath. Go get something to eat and drink, Jasmin, before walking up to Delta airlines facing this problem.
So here are the facts:
- Cancelled flight from Detroit to JFK/New York City
- No flights back to NYC today
- No flights back to NYC/JFK tomorrow
- No hotel provided, since the flight's cancel was due to weather and not a problem from the airlines side
So here's what happens:
- The first flight back closest to NYC is Newark tomorrow night at 10, I got on that flight
- I will be sleeping in the airport, full stop.
- I will be back after midnight in NYC tomorrow night
- I will for the first time in a long time be close to boring myself to death... BUT here's what I can do...
- Finish my book 'At first sight' by Nicholas Sparks. I am 4 chapters into the book. Done by tomorrow at 9? Easy-peasy!
- Write on my blog. Sure!.. hop eyou don't bore to death though - coz there's aren't very many things to see.
- Look in the shops. There are quite a few nice ones.. like the body shop (uuuh! I just saved my smell in the next 30 hours - since all my lotion is in my luggage. The body shop always has really good tests you can take).
- Watch a movie. hmm.. the POLAR EXPRESS. A christmas must-see! Even though, the internet is cut off for me every 45 minutes..
- Stretch. A little awkward yes, but I believe that after midnight or at 4 in the morning, the very few people who are here have probably lost all sense of manners and we are all totally carefree, since looking like bugs that have been run over by a truck, from staying in an airport 25 hours before our flight, is something we're all in together..
......SO YES, my hope is - at least - that there will be other people around. Just so I don't feel like I am the only one in the whole world. I have been able to log on a wifi here, and I chatted with Susan.. and let out my frustration.. very unfair form my side I see now, but recieved with much love from her side. As always.
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It's funny watching people in the airport. So many people look confused. An airport is a world in itself.. most other people are stressed because they are in a hurry, or trying to keep their eyes on 5 kids at the same time.
I just got up from home base for 20 minutes or so, to go to the bathroom and look for a cafe-like place where I could buy some bread rolls or anything to keep for the night, before the shops open again at 6 in the morning. I have no more food, so figured I should find something, before they all close soon at 10 pm.
But no cafes, that I could find. I found kiosks that offered me chips and candy, and then there was McDonald's. I think I stood in McD's for about 10 minutes just trying to convince myself that there was something appropriate, foodlike, and non-fat/fried/crap-like.. nope couldn't do it. I just couldn't.
Because I was low on sugar, I felt lucky to find a candy cane in my hand luggage.. now my tummy just hurts. :/
So, I've been thinking.. I would usually be more spontaneous and try to get out and see Detroit and find a random room at a small hotel nearby just for the experience of it. But this time I decided to play from my energy.. and I know there isn't much energy for travelling much after so much driving this whole holiday.. I know it will only tire me way too much out to travel to an unknown hotel, check in, sleep one night... oh I just remembered.. I have no alarm clock with me.. lol.. but I prob would wake up in time for my flight at 9:40 pm ;)
Actually thinking about it now, it seems a bit too much and overwhelming to stay in the airport more than 24 hours. Hm.. but I have already found my kind of 'homey' place.. a really snug chair next to Starbucks. So I can just wake up and get my breakfast. If I sleep, I hope I can sleep.
lol. A guy is walking up an escalator going in the opposite direction. He's not getting very far! I guess I am not the only one trying to kill time.
I could sleep soon though.
If I need to go potty in the middle of the night, I have to carry some 10 kg's with me!
This surely is strange...
It's funny as I walked around the airport to look for food and more information, I had a cozy 'homey' feeling about returning to my spot - which still hadn't been taken.. amazingly lucky actually. best spot in the area.
My prayer tonight was simple:
Dear God,
Take care of me and keep your protecting hand over me all through the night. Help me to be calm. Thank you for your love, I love you. Let me get rest and sleep tight and don't let the airport bugs bite.
To be continued... goodnight! ;)
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