Prayer Room

Just came out of the prayer room, after saying the Divine Mercy chaplet and praying a bit for various intentions, located near dayrooms, where I checked in after wandering aimlessly, tired and unfresh after all night flight from Dar es Salaam and trouble at the airport here in Zurich, having missed my connecting flight to Warsaw and being forced to stay the whole day and night till tomorrow morning when I will hopefully conclude my air travel to Poland...

Victor Novorski

Do you remember that movie `Terminal` with Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones? Yeah...This is me now. Stuck in Zurich as the flight from Dar was late, I missed my plane to Warsaw and all the remaining flights to Warsaw are fully booked today. Will have to stay whole day and night here in Zurich waiting for my morning flight and paying extra charges as I have a special friend ticket which is fixed and cannot be changed. Talk about more obstacles on my way to holidays...Still, all this will bring blessings...Missing my Dad though, relatives and beloved friends....Will have to wait one more day....:(

Anticipation

This is the prevailing feeling which took possession of my soul and mind, as I sit in the departure hall of Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam, expecting the departure which has been already announced as delayed by 40 minutes due to the late arrival of the incoming plane from Zurich. This simply means that I will - most probably - miss my connecting flight from Zurich to Warsaw tomorrow morning, as there is only 40 minutes of the gao between two flights and it always has been a run from one side of the Kloten Airport in Zurich to the other, barely catching the bus leaving the terminal A to the plane...So far I was able to get on time, but tomorrow, if the plane does not catch up with favorable winds over Sahara, I may have to be put on another plane departing two or three hours later. Anyway, this is not what my anticipation is directed at...

Lone Rider

I have traveled several times by trains while in Europe. Never alone. Always with and among fellow travelers...But when it came to the last trip by train before boarding the plane which would take me back to Africa, there was no one on board with me. There was not even a train driver...

Dark Matter

Packing has never been tougher than this one today...It has never taken me so much energy, emotions, strength of will and time to pack that few wee things I take with me back to Africa...I feel like I am not ready to go back yet...that I need a few days of rest and give myself a chance to wind down high wired emotions...These few things I put to my bag made it so heavy to move that I suspect there may be some dark matter involved in it...

Swiss

Sitting in the Julius Nyerere International Airport lounge, right after check-in, which went surprisingly efficiently and quickly... Still an hour plus before boarding time. I decided to take out my laptop and do some reading and writing. Then, suddenly, I reminisced a funny episode, when I flew last time from Warsaw to Dar es Salaam via Zurich... This made me chuckle to myself which caused a few raised eyebrows around me...