I HAS LANDED (and so has mah internetz)
Welp, it seems I landed in Skopje at 15.30 local time yesterday, mayhap. I dunno, I've been out of it since then. It's already Tuesday *sob* I lost a whole bloody day, DAMN YOU TIME ZONES! At least I had the sense to only sleep in the evening. I was up til 23.30 and slept til about 14h. I felt better.
Sa~te... here is the point form and awesome log of horrible of my trip:
- Took off from Vancouver at 07h
- Landed 5 hours later in Toronto
- Nice new Air Canada plane had a personal entertainment system, so I watched サウスバウンド
- It was cute
- No food except by pay but I was smart and brought a sub
- Landed, realised I was stuck in the overhyped and stupid amazing "Terminal 1"
-My older cousin type who lives in Toronto was enlisted by my father to help me
BUT!
- Entering the circular terminal meant I had no reason to leave superfluously and indeed, thought I was trapped. The only doorways were the sec check and baggage claim, neither of which I needed. In the end, I just left through baggage and returned through the international check-in
- Was enlisted by sec. guard "Sami" at the check to help an old Macedonian lady
"You're Macedonian, yeah?"
"Yeah."
"Can you help this old lady, she doesn't speak any English."
"Why not."
"I sent her off with an Albanian but...you know how they are..."
"*eyeroll* I shall find her immediately."
- Never found the old lady
HOWEVER
- For Vienna, I was seated on a shitty 1970s Austrian Air Boeing 767 *vomit*
- Was at the back with a lady WITH HER GODDAMN KICKDOG
- By the time I boarded there was no room for overhead baggage storage, so my bigger one was thrown in a box towards the front
- All I could hear around me was Albanian D: it was rather disorienting, I was like "I thought we were Austria bound..."
- SO! because I was at the back and food service starts at the front, by the time they reached me, only cod was left, despite an initial chicken option
- Well no fucking wonder! Cod stinks and tastes like horrible things
- NINE FUCKING HOURS I UNDERWENT THIS~! My Zen died. My computer was dying. I WAS DYING. I tried to sleep, like hell I could.
- Finally landed, only to encounter...
A FIVE HOUR WAIT AT THE SHITTY LITTLE VIENNESE AIRPORT!
- Long story short *phew* I met up with two middle aged Macedonian ladies who were actually kinda hip and we waited, they slept a little, I ate expensive airport chocolates
- The plane ride was mercifully short, clocking in at 2.5 hours with decent food
- Most of the time was spent taking off and landing
- Managed to bypass a sec check at the Macedonian airport because the guy was like "holy shit, you're tired, leave, I won't bother you."
- Was picked up by my aunts and uncles...
...
The rest is due tomorrow *fuifuifui~*
LOOK FORWARD TO IT!