ALOHA....
If you didn't guess from my greeting, I am in Honolulu Hawaii. I have been travelling since early this morning and am really feeling my jet lag from my Nigeria trip already. Since I came back I found that I was still on Nigeria time and AM still on Nigeria time. Now on my way to Sydney, Australia I have to adjust to another 8 hour jump ahead from Nigeria time and 16 or so hours from Calgary time. My body is all messed up at this point in time! I guess I shouldn't complain since I am travelling the globe!
My trips...as in the air travel are always interesting...and funny I guess. Arriving in L.A. was interesting because on my way to my connecting flight 3 people stopped me due to my Calvin College sweatshirt. None of the people went to Calvin in actuality...the first Man went to Kalamazoo College and recognized it, the second person, a lady just saw "Calvin" and pointed it out to her young son whose name was apparently Calvin...and the last Man had gone to a track meet where supposedly Calvin had a huge nice bus and he was really impressed and asked whether it was a really high end educational school due to that. Perhaps next time I won't wear my Calvin sweatshirt if I don't want anyone to talk to me ;-)
The next story is the one that seems to amuse me the most. On the plane before take off, I am sitting beside a nice lady and we are talking about where we are going...and the convo turns into how I was just in Nigeria...and what for etc. etc. and meanwhile the flight crew is going over the "in-flight safety" stuff. Now I can't even begin to count how many times I have heard this but it has been a lot...so we were talking during it and the lady behind us suddenly sticks her head over the seat and looks and me (since I was the one talking at the moment) and shushes me....yes...she gave me a loud obnoxious SHHHHHH! For the energy that she expelled to shush me, I thought she was going to collapse and we would have been delayed in flying to Hawaii....hehe. It seems I have issues with older ladies who sit behind me. Perhaps I just look like a little kid who is obnoxious and undeserving of adult recognition or respect for that matter. Both the lady (who I was talking with) and I, just laughed.
So here I am now after conking (is that a word?) out on the flight for an hour...in Honolulu for about 5 more hours...then off to Sydney on another long flight. All together I think the total travel time is close to 40 some hours...but it will be worth it in the end.
Anyway...until then you will be hearing from me next in Australia!
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