As some of you may know, I don’t have much flight
experience. I have flown almost the same amount outside of the US as I have
inside the US (one round trip in China and India), which shows how few times
I’ve flown. So, I am a bit worried about flying alone only because if something
were to go wrong, I’m not completely sure I will know how to correct it.
Anyways, the first leg of my flight to Boston went really smoothly. As the
plane was heading to the runway, the large family came out to the fence to wave
us off. It was really cute, the little girls were in sundresses and waving
energetically like little kids often do. A funny thing that happened: it seems
that a packet of vanilla wafers had been lodged somewhere near my seat so that
when we took off, it fell to the floor. After asking everyone around me if it
belonged to them, I decided to keep it. But when my brother and I tried some,
they were really stale. So it seems they were hidden somewhere for a long
time…don’t know if that’s a good thing or not, but I got free stale cookies out
of it. The transfer flight started off fine, we were heading to the runway when
the plane just went off to the side and stopped. It seemed that Boston had some
storms and so the airport told flights not to fly. We arrived an hour and 20
minutes late, though fortunately I wasn’t in a hurry. Alex and his friend, Dan,
met me and we headed to his apartment. Then we went to dinner with his
Christian fellowship, about half of whom I had met once (or twice) before. It
was nice meeting everyone, especially since I didn’t know that I would see any
of them again after graduation. Later on, some of us watched Mrs. Doubtfire –
an excellent movie, it’s so funny that I laugh every time.
What
do Vikings eat? Bacon, of course. So that’s what we ate for breakfast while
introducing his roommate to some of our favorite Celtic music. I then got to go
to Alex’s band’s rehearsal. I think I finally figured out how to correctly put
earplugs in my ears because it wasn’t too loud (I think). It was nice to see
Alex in the music making process. After that, we messed around for the day and
went to his friend’s place for a movie – Aliens (sequel to Alien). I don’t
really like scary movies but fortunately this one was somewhat predictable,
though still really nasty when you think about it. We met another one of his
friends later and then called it a night.
Sunday,
we went to church. God is really awesome and I love His timeliness. It appears
that the sermon series they were going through was “Undone” – a series focusing
on heavy topics like grief, etc and how their power was ‘undone’ through
Christ. Well, they just happened to save ‘loneliness’ for today. Not that I am lonely right now, but
this is certainly something I think I will have to face at some point on this
trip only because it looks like my commute and perhaps at other times I will
have to be alone. This perfect alignment of sermon series has happened many a
time and I think that it is so cool how God lines it up so that the one you
need happens right when you need it. After church, we wanted to go to this
burger place that was featured on man vs. food, but it was too far away to make
it there and the airport on time. So we went to Popeye’s instead. I have to
say, I’ve always considered Popeye’s to be not good for some reason, perhaps
because it’s the wannabe KFC but I’m not sure why. Anyways, it actually turned
out to be pretty good. Then we headed to the airport. The line for tsa was
ridiculously long, but when I finally got up there, they just had me walk
through the metal detector and I was done. Kind of too fast, but fine by me. As
I sat waiting for the plane to board, I befriended a little girl going to
Moldova (I think that’s what she said – I forgot). She was cute and had a
stuffed dog she played with. That was a nice way to pass the time.
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