The Destination That We Journey In Driving towards the large concrete highway, up ahead was the large edifice of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3. Notably famous for its modern exterior design, I felt the jittery feeling of excitement course through me. Getting down, I hurriedly placed my bag on the airport trolley my dad handed to me. Pushing the trolley towards the airport, my fingers were quivering from excitement. My mom had announced three months prior that we were going to Camarines Sur, Bicol. In that three month long wait, a series of continuous “How many days left?” were heard, and a couple “Just a bit more” were in response.
Taking a quick peek amidst the long line of the main gate, I saw the terminal’s …show more content…
I expected that the first thing I would see is a lover running to her lost love, just like how Holly Berenson (Katherine Heigl) runs to the airport to find Eric Messer (Josh Duhammel) in the American 2010 romance film Life as We Know It. Or anecdotes from my family members working overseas. Telling me stories of how the airport would be too restrictive, that the guards would scavenge for any flaw in their baggages, may it be contrabands or sharp knives. That the guards would interrogate them as if they were syndicates waiting to be caught or confidents waiting to crack. My OFW family members would warn me about how the guards were rude, angry and vile to those coming in the airport. They would mention about how airports were thief-prone. In turn, my paranoid OFW family members would wrap their baggages with plastic wrap to prevent any thievery, or illegal planting of drugs into their …show more content…
It’s blue background and white font color eye catching; easy to see for travellers. Numerous aisles of airlines’ baggage check-in counters were lined in rows according to different countries, from Philippine Airlines’ destinations of Kuala Lumpur to Greece, or Cebu Pacific’s Malaysia to Columbia, the rows looked never ending. Tourists had faces of instant vexation over the long lines, they were either late or too early. There was noise everywhere. From the airport departure and arrival announcements to the constant bickering of the couple beside me, it was an orchestration of constant unmelodic
Taking a quick peek amidst the long line of the main gate, I saw the terminal’s …show more content…
I expected that the first thing I would see is a lover running to her lost love, just like how Holly Berenson (Katherine Heigl) runs to the airport to find Eric Messer (Josh Duhammel) in the American 2010 romance film Life as We Know It. Or anecdotes from my family members working overseas. Telling me stories of how the airport would be too restrictive, that the guards would scavenge for any flaw in their baggages, may it be contrabands or sharp knives. That the guards would interrogate them as if they were syndicates waiting to be caught or confidents waiting to crack. My OFW family members would warn me about how the guards were rude, angry and vile to those coming in the airport. They would mention about how airports were thief-prone. In turn, my paranoid OFW family members would wrap their baggages with plastic wrap to prevent any thievery, or illegal planting of drugs into their …show more content…
It’s blue background and white font color eye catching; easy to see for travellers. Numerous aisles of airlines’ baggage check-in counters were lined in rows according to different countries, from Philippine Airlines’ destinations of Kuala Lumpur to Greece, or Cebu Pacific’s Malaysia to Columbia, the rows looked never ending. Tourists had faces of instant vexation over the long lines, they were either late or too early. There was noise everywhere. From the airport departure and arrival announcements to the constant bickering of the couple beside me, it was an orchestration of constant unmelodic