The Flight

It was only the 15th of December and I had to leave to the Philippines! At 10:00 pm we had to go to the airport. My flight was at 12:30 in the morning on the 17th. When we got to the airport the place was swarming with people. My mom and dad were checking in our bags and my little sister was sleeping but, she looked dead. My big sister and I were watching a movie that that was playing on the TV in the airport. When they were done with the check in bags we had to go and walk all the way to the immigration. It took so long for the guy to check and stamp our passports. I was just standing there idly waiting for the man to finish with our passports.

Then we had to walk all the way to the pre-departure area. When we got on the plane it was a really tiring flight. My mom, my 2 sisters and I slept through the whole flight. When we got to Manila, the capital of the Philippines it was 7:30 am. It took us a long time to finish fixing our luggage. We had breakfast at a coffee shop in the airport at around 8:00. While we were eating I asked my mom what time was our flight to Cagayan de oro. Cagayan de oro is the city where I was born in. My mom answered “It’s at 11:00.” We had 3 hours until our next flight! We left the coffee shop at around 8:15. We were so bored that we went upstairs to see if there was anything else to do. My mom went to a restaurant to eat because she didn’t eat that much in the coffee shop.

The name of the restaurant was Jolibee. We ordered 2, rice and beef tappa breakfast packets. All of that food was overwhelming. It was delicious! After we ate we went into the airport and by 8:45 we were in the pre-departure area. We still had to wait for 2 hours and 15 minutes. There was a flight that was boarding at around 9:00-9:30 in the same area where my flight was going board. The plane that I was going to take wasn’t there yet. When it was time to go on the plane everybody made a really long line. I fell asleep right before we were supposed to go up in the air. When I woke up we were already landing. When we got into the airport my mom told my sisters and me to go into my uncle’s car and wait for her there. When we were driving to my house I realized the sky in Cagayan de oro was bluer and cleaner than the sky in Jakarta.