Ever complained that a 6 hour flight was too long? Well if so stop. You obviously haven't been stuck on an airplane for 12 hours. Let's start from the beginning. My parents drive me to LAX from Canyon Lake which is about a 2hr drive already. Once I arrive I automatically am lost which is horrible because I go to the airport a couple times every year. I find my airline. AEROFLOT. This is a Russian airline .... But I guess I forgot that I would most likely be the only American on this flight. I wait in line to get my bag checked and I'm already confused because everyone is speaking a different language and it was Spanish. Finally walking to the end of the airport I get to my gate. It's completely quiet except for the Russian language filling the air. The people running the gate spoke very little English. When I walked up they could tell I was American. I almost got a cold feeling from them but when I think about it they were probably just as confused as I was. It's interesting to put two people together who have absolutely no idea what the other person is saying. We take a bus to the plane because our plane is huge. When I walked onto it the flight attendants could tell I was American . Maybe we smell different ...idk. This plane is the biggest I have ever been on. I only wish my family was here to experience this with me. This plane is tall enough to where I look like a midget in here. At my seat I am greeted with presents from Aeroflot. A pillow, iPhone charging station, blanket, eye mask, and even slippers. I start playing with the tv screen in front of me. Free video games, movies and tv shows. This technology is soo advance to where it even shows me exactly where we are flying over. After we take off maybe not even an hour has passed I smell alcohol. Turns out instead of handing out sodas like a normal flight they offer free...I repeat free wine. The other option was juice. I chose the red wine. Shortly after they started handing out the food. I had cod, assorted meat with a bread roll, some cooked veggies, mashed potatoes and A BIG BALL OF CHOCOLATE MOUSSE. Immediately after hey came by with coffee and the green tea. I never felt so full on a plane before. During this entire time I have a lovely lady sitting one seat over who is from Russia but thank God she speaks English. I don't have to do fake sign language then... Damn I practiced all the way to the airport. Maybe it might help in austria. The flights attendants handed out several pairs of headphones to everyone on the flight. This enables us to watch whatever movie we want... Well not whatever movie but you get what I mean. One of the options was "gone with the wind".... That's how long the flight was. I probably will have watched 5 movies during my journey. Currently right now I'm watching "Chicago"
SEVERAL HOURS LATER
So yeah I didn't watch the rest of the movie. I gave up and put my music on and fell asleep. But I woke up to food being handed out. I've learned to just say yes when one of the flight attendants asks me something. This can possibly cause a lot of confusing conversations but I am ready for them. For some reason whenever they give me food they sound like they keep saying chicken but then I end up with fish. Is that what they call fish in Russia or am I just deaf? Either way the food again was filling and I have to say with presentation of food they get an A+.
That orange thing was a murengue ....I think. I know the swirl was chocolate. With the language barrier between me and the flight attendants and everyone else on this flight I was too nervous to ask them. I didn't want to seem like a pesky American who only knew some german and French. If I had WIFI in the sky I would definitely pull up Duolingo and try to figure out what the hell everyone was saying.
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