| | My flight to Norway was canceled -- an aviation pleasure I had not encountered previously. After an hour and a half in a queue, intersped with the odd phonecall to a friend trying to rebook my ticket online, I had yet to move very far at all, although I took great pleasure in noticing that the line had tripled in size behind me.
Apart from boredom, one event sticks to mind. I chatted with an American couple who were on their way to Amsterdam for a holiday (and, since the girl was legally allowed to drink in Europe, to go absolutely off their rocker), and at one point it came up that I was studying Journalism.
I told her that I intend to travel, aiming for either the far east or perhaps Africa. She seemed very impressed, as most people do: "That is far away!"
Yes, but where else is there to go? How, she postulated, about America? This caused me, quite involuntarily, to roll my eyes at her. "Boring!"
She seemed somewhat offended by this, as if I'd kicked her cat. Which, I suppose, I did. | |
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