Episode 2, 5/13/2009 – On the plane again…Just can’t wait to get off the plane again.

The flight from Philadelphia is where it gets interesting. At the gate and almost immediately, I recognized my fellow study abroad group by the wealth of college-related paraphernalia we were all wearing. I joined the group for the rest of the plane excursions, re-met people I once knew and (attempted) to remember the names of the new folks. Haha, still working on that, but in all, very successful.

I spent the flight sitting next to Janine, watching a dumb movie called Inkheart, interspersing that with “Lord Jim” by Joseph Conrad and conversations about LOST’s upcoming season finale. Gotta love me my Des+Penny.

I’m convinced Tylenol PM is a sham, invented in collusion by doctors and Satan. It failed to put me to sleep (in a good way) on the plane and I spent about 4 hours in a bizarre intermittent zombie-sleep/notsleep period, crunched between my backpack and the lack of legroom on U.S. air flights. Icky, right? In any case, plane lands in Barcelona y todo cambio.

Thank you Mom and Dad, I had already acquired Euros (that magic tool for quenching thirst). First thing I bought was “Nécter de Piña,” aptly enough, pineapple nectar. It was excellent, but not very thirst-quenching. Plus, I really didn’t get a chance to use Spanish. A running gag in the entire trip goes like this:

Me (in broken Spanish): ….Ah….Quiero la Nécter de Piña, por favor.

Salesperson (in English): Oh, okay. That’s two euros.

I guess we’re dead giveaways for being American, right? I bought some souvenirs (mmmhmmhm….Wouldn’t you like to know what they are?) and waited for the plane to Sevilla.