Sorry for the longest silent treatment ever.
The last post I wrote was about Croatia and the missions trip I did to that beautiful country. I ended the last post by saying, that I had a job in Switzerland. Well I really enjoyed working for that company and I had a good time with my co-workers. I worked there till the beginning of July. After that I was involved in different volunteer jobs for our partner organisation MOVIDA.
Well now I'm already a few weeks in Brazil. I departed October 3rd with a few minutes of delay direction Frankfurt, Germany. In Frankfurt I didn't have to much time till I my connecting flight to Recife, Brazil departed. I was already sitting in my seat when a Flight Attendant came up to me and asked me if I would be ok switching seats so that this mother could sit together with her aprox. 6ish year old daughter. At this point I didn't know where he would be taking me but I agreed to switch the seat. On this response he asked me to follow him into Business Class. ():
Never have I received a Upgrade to Business Class and I was even happier to know that this flight from Frankfurt to Recife was about 9h long. Now I was sitting here in the first row looking forward for this flight. But about 5 minutes after we started rolling towards the runway we already stopped again and the Pilot gave an announcement saying that there was a technical error on one of the engines. Luckily Condor had an other airplane standing around so that we were able to leave about 1.5h later. It was a very pleasant flight in which I got spoiled by the Crew and the service of the Business Class.
But the trip wasn't over in Recife. I still had a connection flight from Recife to Teresina and now with almost 2h delayed my chance of making the connection was almost 0. But here as well Condor surprised me. They already had contacted to ground crew who was waiting for the passengers with connecting flights. Now because I was in the first row, I also was able to leave the airplane really quickly. I went really fast through Immigration and my luggage even arrived on a separate carousel. At Customs no one was looking so I was quickly out and already back at the Check-In for my connecting flight (this by the way is normal in Brazil if you have a connecting flight, you go through Immigrations and Customs and back to the Check-In counter of the next airline).
As I arrived the counter I noticed that I had about 10 minutes before departure time. The agent looked in the system and because of the Condor ground staff who already warned the other airline of my delayed arrival he was able to still check me in. So I dropped my luggage and ran to the security to proceed to the gate. I arrived at the gate just in time to be the last one to board. After such a beautiful and relaxing flight I suddenly came into such a stress.
As I arrived the counter I noticed that I had about 10 minutes before departure time. The agent looked in the system and because of the Condor ground staff who already warned the other airline of my delayed arrival he was able to still check me in. So I dropped my luggage and ran to the security to proceed to the gate. I arrived at the gate just in time to be the last one to board. After such a beautiful and relaxing flight I suddenly came into such a stress.
Even though I had such a great cross Atlantic flight I arrived exhausted but on time in Teresina. And to my surprise my luggage also made it, even though they just had about 10 minutes to get that luggage from the Check-In counter to the airplane.
Now I'm in Brazil and slowly and as good as possible getting used to the high temperatures (+- 40C).
