Its Friday early morning the 3rd of August. The sky was clear and climate
absolutely refreshing... awaiting for a long journey. Yes tonight its my journey to the west, the land of opportunities, land of whatever you wished for, yes, its -united states of america.

This would be first flight experience, travelling in the air. so it was quite new for me and i got bizarre feelings of how i will be travelling at 30,000 ft in the air. hmm...it was quite so ordinary as what i exaggerated myself.

Well i was so busy that day, packing my things up and browsing through my requirement
catalog and running to the grocery shops to get things here as far as possible. coz as u know u might not get easy access to buying things in america. i ll delve with it the further posts. I forgot one of the most alarming fact. my family and i would travel to the airport in a cab and i ll boarding the flight in the midnight. so they gotta return back alone. i did not call any of my friends to accompany me, as i din wanna disturb their sleep.
But i was so lucky in getting one of my old school mate A, to accompany us.
Well the time has come for me to leave the land where i ve been there for 23 years.
Its a short visit ,but still, i am leaving my mother country. so i had blood rushing during my exit. Anyways, i ve to take things as it comes to me and live the way it takes you.
I bid adeiu to my parents and my friend and went for the security check. i had to undergo certain process which i did. my luggage got scanned and checked in. My immigration check in went on went upstairs and i was amazed to see the place. was that chennai? i was wondering!! It was cool and so cold. i had to board at the Gate No.2. I sat near a guy aged average, was talkin to him.he was heading to djakarta. got some cool tips from him regarding the travel. I am taking the emirates airlines. Chennai-dubai-newyork,jfk. Well imagine how will be my later part of the journey!! thast 15 hrs man....!! As usual flight to dubai is late by 40 mins. After a short while there was announcement for boarding flight to dubai. i stood up in the queue and ready to fly. It was a medium sized flight. it had nice facilities and had some cool air-hostesses. it was approximately 5 hrs journy from chennai - dubai.
Dubai is one hell of a place. Trees,buildings amidst of sands and bricks. Oh my god, there are lots of buildings under construction!!

I got landed at the dubai airport and being escorted by a cool airbus, circling around the dubai airport taking me to the transit area.

My next flight is scheduled at 8 05 am. but the time is 7 15. I ve to board the flight before 30 an hr at least. I asked the dubai officials, they least care abt you. They were jus talking inspite of my request for Gate No. XX. And one guy told me get to the top. Ah Voila, found out Gate no.XX and b4 i wanted to go to the restrooms and oh my god, it had a queue. hmm...after that i checked in the Gate headed for New york. Now my actual journey starts.
The flight took off shortly and you know, a bangladeshi near by me. He is one such a**h***. He was totally talking crap. he talked abt his country. he said he is working for nyse.. Oh he din even a good english, how come he is workin in NYSE?! may be he had found exact clown[me] to blow his horns.
I din care, as once again the air hostesses were really cool and very serving..
so initially i concentrated on them.. then i loose interest. what to do for 15 hrs!!?! The flight route is like this, Dubai-iraq,tehran, turkey, moscow,iceland, atlantic, greenland, canada and landed JFK.

So finaly i woke up to see that i am flying above Albany,NY, its were yet another school mate lives and studies.hmmm...wished i see him b4 going anywhere.
Well then came new york. The plane was shuttling over JFK for an hr coz of AIR TRAFFIC. Wow, i am hearing that word, jus now in my life time. As u might John F.Kennedy airport is the busies one in the world. So our flight was finding so difficult to land.

Ah!! Finally it landed, wow,its so rough landing., i thought its going to dash somewhere. I disembarked from the plane and went to immigration check.
Usually the officer asks how long he/she is gonna stay. surprising, he din ask anything and stamped 6 months. I don know what s goin on in his mind!!

Went to the baggage claiming area to pull off my baggages. i got my bags so soon.
My travel was sooo smooth. i never imagined i would take off and touch down so easily. Guess it was my mom and dad 's prayer made my journey simple as it is.

Thats it, i will come up with exciting incidents during my stay
Ossining,New york.