'Planes&Flights; what to do and what to avoid.

• The first thing to avoid when on a 10 hour flight? Avoid being tall -.-"

I am not even kidding. Unless you can fly first class/business class and get those seats that turn into really long beds (which even then are a slight short for me) get ready for the most uncomfortable night you can possibly imagine. I think I managed to pass through any and all yoga positions in the book as well as inventing a couple more.

Actually, after seeing this picture (which made me laugh a little, look at the descriptions of each position :B) I realized that actually it would have been much more comfortable to sleep like this than the way I was sitting down...still, I didn’t manage to sleep for more than a couple of hours, though not specifically because of this…

• Another thing to avoid? Making friends with the people next to you if they are under age and you have no earphones which are noticeably noise-cancelling.

No, this has nothing to do with legalities (hello, I haven't turned 18 yet) this has to do with the fact that it is a 10 hour flight and people under age, especially under 10, do NOT know when to shut up. I know! It sounds so awful! But it is true. TRUST ME, I KNOW. I ended up explaining how electricity works, how you can cut yourself with paper even though it's so easy to tear, the concept of the mass media and how it's making news a public issue instead of a one-way private emissions issue and, among other things, how an a 'plane stays in the air. Obviously then there were trivialities such as what music they like (reggeaton BLEJ) what chocolate they prefer, how old they are (9 and 7) etc. etc. etc. They were the cutest things ever, don't get me wrong, but nothing was sweeter than when I managed to locate my noise cancelling earphones and turned the volume up to the maximum...

I knew I wouldn't forget you and so I went and let you blow my mind♫

Another point worth mentioning is to wait to hear what kind of voice the air-hostess has BEFORE talking with her. Before we took off I wanted some water so I asked her as she passed me in the aisle of the ‘plane. When she answered it was all I could manage to not stare at her open-mouthed/laugh like a lunatic in her face.

“Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, yes dear of course! Let me get that for you right right riiight away! Oh, darn it! Someone asked me for something and I can’t remember what it was…oh dear goodness, what could it have been..oh that’s right! You wanted some water, right? Or was it your mother? Oh my oh my…yes that’s right, it was you. Right away, hon!”

Now read that again but imagine a voice that sounds like it inhaled 4 tanks of helium.

Right.

Like I said, get an idea of what she’s like before you talk to her. I get that I look like my family but I am NOT exaggerating with what I wrote there; she literally forgot the second she confirmed she had understood.

She was really nice, though (: (?)

Ok, so what should one do?

• Before getting on, BUY THOSE EYE-COVER/SHADE THINGS.

Y’know, the ones you slip on to block out the light to be able to catch some shut eye? Here’s a picture:

If you do not acquire one of these I assure you sleeping will be excruciatingly difficult.

• Do buy The Economist

I read this for the first time this trip, I got it in the airport and I am not exaggerating when I say it is one of the best reads I have ever had. It is brilliantly and FLAWLESSLY written and the information provided is accurate and fun to read. Plus it’s opinionated but not in a subtle i-don’t-want-you-to-realize-this-is-my-opinion way which is freaking annoying.

• EAT ANY AND ALL FRUITS&VEGETABLES YOU HAVE IN YOUR BAG.

I was dumb enough to take a green apple in my bag which, of course, was not detected in Buenos Aires Ezeiza but when I landed I realized this could get me into some serious $h*T, not to mention make us waste a long time while the US airport security ripped apart and analyzed every angle and thread of my things. Thank heavens I remembered and before passing through security I threw it away. But not before I grabbed a bite. It was so deliciouuus…it sucks that I had to waste a perfectly good apple :_ so seriously, no organic foods. Make do with the icky ‘plane foodstuffs.

Allright, so that’s the first entry done "...una sobre los aviones, los vuelos y lo incómodo que es medir 1,80 con las piernas más largas que spaghetti y tener que volar 10 horas seguidas sin asiento que se despliega en cama :_ ..." and I should probably start writing more about the other two but I think we’re leaving to go north Arizona in a while so I might write this in the car and then post them when I get the time.

We shall see e.e

 Ciao★