my first plane ride

Last December 10, 2006, I rode in an airplane for the first time. Anxiety almost got the best of me when the pilot started the plane's engines. The plane taxied to the runway. As the plane gained speed, some physics lessons came to my mind. It’s weird, because of all the things that would spring to my mind, physics came. The lesson was about the position of the box when it is dropped from a plane relative to the plane and to the ground. That’s when my thoughts about the lesson were lacking something- I WASN'T IN AN AIRPLANE!

As the plane took off and gained altitude, that was kind of exciting. Like a Ferris wheel, only faster. At last! We were about 33000 ft above ground; I guess that’s very high. From up there, what I saw were mostly white and dark clouds. My first time was a bad timing because Seniang 'visited' the Philippines. Although I saw some clouds that blocked the sun. I guess that is where the movies take the concept of heaven as someplace bright and foggy/cloudy. Aside from the clouds blocking a bird’s eye view of the Philippines, winds were strong- turbulence was significantly present. I was about to throw up. But I didn't. About 1 hour from departure, hello manila!

Manila is pretty much like Cebu. But high rise buildings make manila different from Cebu. Manila is a very busy city. Compared to Cebu, manila's everyday activities are more than two times as fast as Cebu's. No wonder manila is the Philippines' capital. Though it manila is better is Cebu in most aspects, I would still like to live here in Cebu. Cebu is where I was born; it is where I’ll die. For an asthmatic like me, I would not last a week in manila without taking my medicine.

I couldn't wait to go back to Cebu. Yet a trip to UP Diliman shrouded that thought in my mind. I wondered that if I would pass the UPCAT, I would study there. The campus was way better than the college across our campus. All I said was all about the campus, not the quality of education. I have to stop here because even my own self hates myself for stating that.

Well anyway, the trip back to Cebu was far better than that trip from Cebu. Weather was fine. And thus coming back to Cebu was the end of a significant experience I had.