In 2007 my mother and I decided
togo to East Africa because she was interested in jewish-christian mithology. First
we took an airplane to London-Heathrow where we changed flight to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
, with a short stop in Alexandria. An hour after leaving Alexandria we were flying over Sudan, where
we encountered a zone of turbulence. The airplane was swerving from side to
side, and dramatically lost altitude. We were sitting in the front of the plane
and I looked back and saw people shouting, crying, children running and screaming
up and down isle, three brittish passengers hugging themselves in fear and an
ethiopian priest with his hands in the air shouting: “this is the apocalypse!”.
Despite the circus all around us my mother was completely calm but suddenly she
felt drops of wáter on her forehead and began shouting: “the plane is broken
there is water inside!” I looked up at the drops falling, touched and smelled them and said to my mother: “this in not water
it´s apple juice”. During the turbulence
the lady behind us threw her apple juice at the roof above us. When the plane
regained control I made the terrible mistake of looking out the window . I saw
hundreds of oil rigs in the middle of no where, with flames bursting out the
top, just 20 meters below me! When we landed
in Addis Ababa we disembarked using stairs and from runway I heard a buzzing
sound, looked around and saw a plague of locusts. The brittish man standing
next to me was trembling and I thought: if he could, this guy would get
straight back on a plane to London.
Finaly I told to my mother: we are in Ethiopia the crib of Jewish-Christian worldview, know because the plage of locust like in the Bible.
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