Takeoff

    (One of the best photos I've ever                

taken)

After a day in New York, me and the other the AFS India students boarded a flight to Delhi at around 8. We were worried we wouldn't make it, since hurricane Arthur caused other flights to get cancelled, and the entire airport's electricity when out for a few seconds before we boarded. And it took what felt like half an hour to get the airport check in computers running again.

Once we got in the plain, we had to wait for over two hours to get off the ground. So I watched an entire movie (Noah) before we were even in the sky. 

Though it was still airplane food, I was really surprised how much I enjoyed the diner, when it was served to us around midnight. That's probably cause it was indian food. There was this one cup (that I wish I had gotten the name of) that was a creamy sweet lemon flavored milk drink with cheese bits in it. Mmmhh.

The flight was almost 14 hours long (which is much shorter than I thought it would be). After learning that the local time in India she we arrived would be after 10pm, I decided to try to stay awake the entire flight in order to sleep in Delhi and beat jetlag quickly. I was not successful in preventing myself from falling asleep, especially around 5 in the morning when i think i was the person other than the pilots to still be awake.

For most of the flight, we weren't allowed to open windows (because even though almost everyone was sleeping the sun was out). But around 11 the next morning people started to wake up and not mind if I looked out the window. Most of the ground had clouds, but when we were above Turkmenistan, the sky was almost empty of clouds, so I could take photos.

Here's some of Turkmenistan:

And some taken when we flew over Afghanistan: