Ruminations on my flight to Korea.

Here I sit flying over Manitoba at an altitude of 9.8km after finishing what passes for a in meal flight on this plane. I thought now would be a great time to recap the beginning of my 1 year mission to boldly go where I have never gone before.

This morning I woke up at 6:30 to give myself ample time to meet the 7:30 airport bus at the bus station. I was a nervous as all get out at the prospect of getting on the bus and heading to the Pearson International Airport. (For those of you who do not know, this is my first major flight and I have never stepped a foot inside an airport before). So I prayed that God would provide people along the way to help me with my travels.

At the Belleville bus station I met Sister Marianna Jung from Madoc. She was taking the bus to the airport to go to Calgary to visit family. We got to talking and I found out that she was from Korea originally and was also going to the same airport terminal that I was. Throughout the bus trip to the airport and at the terminal I was able to talk to her about Korea and travel, and she tried to teach me some Korean words which by this time I have already forgotten them. I had asked for God to bless my travels and he wasted no time at all J.

Our travel route to Korea has taken us up through Ontario, through the tip of Manitoba, over Hudson Bay, up through The Territories, and will continue over the Bering Strait. Actually, I think they were just about to show us where we are right now on our flight path. They just finished showing the in-flight movie, I forget the name of it, but it stars Debra Messing (Grace from Will & Grace) as a woman who hires a male escort to be her date to her sister’s wedding. For those of you who know what movie I’m talking about and haven’t seen it yet, don’t bother. It’s two hours that you will most likely want back. We are… It will have to wait, the cities are written in Korean, but it seems that we are just into the Yukon and heading over to Alaska. Right now it’s 6:40 EST but this whole trip we have been traveling towards the sun’s path so it still seems like mid afternoon to me. I believe that the sun will be up my entire trip. Good thing for window shades. Apparently there is now only 8hrs 50min left in my flight. Wish me luck as I try to sleep some. I should be landing about 3am EST.