ENGLAND
Today is my first full day back in England. The flight made up for all the stressful faffing around at Cologne airport, which involved paying 80 euros excess baggage and telling a man "No, I can't pay you. I don't have enough money".
All that stress made me hope even more that my plane wouldn't crash. To crash and die after going through all that airport hell and year abroad fun would have been a terrible waste. I think this should be a more common airport phrase, like for the people who check your boarding pass. "Enjoy your flight. Hope it doesn't crash!".
Anyway, I enjoyed my flight. It didn't crash. And I rounded off the year abroad enjoying a GermanWings 'happy picnic' which I've never had before either because I was asleep or I forgot about it. So that was nice.
I'm having massive reverse culture-shock. England is also so far comparatively boring, maybe not to Neuerburg, but maybe just because I saw something new and exciting at least once a fortnight in Germany, which I don't exactly envision for here. Maybe Leeds will tip this balance by simply being so god-darned awesome.
Today is my first full day back in England. The flight made up for all the stressful faffing around at Cologne airport, which involved paying 80 euros excess baggage and telling a man "No, I can't pay you. I don't have enough money".
All that stress made me hope even more that my plane wouldn't crash. To crash and die after going through all that airport hell and year abroad fun would have been a terrible waste. I think this should be a more common airport phrase, like for the people who check your boarding pass. "Enjoy your flight. Hope it doesn't crash!".
Anyway, I enjoyed my flight. It didn't crash. And I rounded off the year abroad enjoying a GermanWings 'happy picnic' which I've never had before either because I was asleep or I forgot about it. So that was nice.
I'm having massive reverse culture-shock. England is also so far comparatively boring, maybe not to Neuerburg, but maybe just because I saw something new and exciting at least once a fortnight in Germany, which I don't exactly envision for here. Maybe Leeds will tip this balance by simply being so god-darned awesome.
