Hello folks, back to blogging after a very long time. Hope you all doing good. I just got settled down at Manhattan, Kansas. It's a beautiful town with very friendly people. The college campus huge, bigger than our IITs. The library is awesome. The people here do craziest things on earth. Well, it's a different life here than my Chennai days. I am learning to cook here, which seems the primary skill to be possessed by every Indian to survive here. Food is very costly if you eat outside. So cooking is the best option. I can't cook sometimes and I sometimes I sleep hungry. Planning to change this bad practice. Fine let me describe my flight experience. It's crazy and well, it was little horrible for me.
The flight booking was in jet airways, 1 am flight on the morning of 31st July (IST). The flight took off on time and the food was satisfactory. I felt kinda sick in the flight because the food was just not like how I expected it to be. But then I overcame that sickness. The flight reached Brussels, Belgium at 7:30 am (local time). Then had to board the same flight after roaming around the airport. Again the food was satisfactory. Later reached New York at 12:50 pm (local time) and it was time for tragedy. It started to pour heavily. Many flights were cancelled. My itinerary from New York was like this, New York to Chicago and then Chicago to Kansas City. I must reach Chicago by 9 pm to catch the flight to Kansas city. They delayed the flight at New York and I reached Chicago only at 11 pm and ultimately missed the flight.
Had to sleep the whole night at the Chicago airport since outside accommodation was costly. The food too was costly at the airport. So it was a struggle against the odds. Then at 4 in the morning next day, approached the airline officials and got a ticket , of course of no charge, for the 7:30 am flight. Had a coffee at the airport, which was my only food for 10 hours. Then got the flight and reached Kansas city by 8:30 am. Waited for another one hour and Indian Students Association people picked me up. At last now settled with an apartment. This journey has taught me how mentally tough a person should be to face life. The Americans are very very friendly and you can see professionalism in everything they do. Will post more, till then adios.
