We arrived at the Addis Airport at 5am for a 6:30 flight which was our first mistake. It was the only flight to Gonder from Addis that day. Just to get into the building to check into the flight you had to go through one slow-operating security checkpoint that had a large mob outside of it. As we neared 6am and the funnel had moved a few feet, people began to yell at eachother and ram their luggage carts into their neighbors. People would cut in line near the door which created more chaos. Luckily our group literally grabbed eachother and elbowed the cutters out until we all made it through the door at about 6:20am. The check-in process was a lot quicker and they held the plane for us. We ran through the airport to the next security checkpoint. I was almost through when the guy in front of me was caught with a huge knife in his carry-on. He proceeded to argue for a good ten minutes about bringing his knife while the line was stalled behind him. Finally I got through but my professor (ahem..Tim!) forgot to remove his scissors from his toiletry bag so that was another ten minute delay. By that point the rest of our group was already on the plane. We were sent to a door which led you down two flights of stairs and out to the tarmac. There were 6 planes scattered around the tarmac and I panicked and started running toward the nearest one. Apparently that plane was headed to Lalibella.. not Gonder. Eventually I was shuttled to the correct plane and we somehow all made it to our destination!
No comments:
Post a Comment