Flying

[Note: This is a freewrite I did for my English class. Enjoy. It was written concerning my experience with airplanes and that whole industry.]

I think the view from an airplane is totally incredible, in more ways than one. Obviously the view is gorgeous--especially if you're flying into or out of somewhere with a lot of standing water, like Louisiana. The sun reflects off the water brilliantly, leaving patches of gold everywhere.

But there's something else amazing about that view. While you're in a plane, you are hanging thousands and thousands of feet up in the air, an altitude at which humans shouldn't be able to survive in, given the oxygen levels in the air. Yet thanks to engineers and scientists, it is now possible.

What would Orville and Wright think of all this? Of the huge terminals we modern flyers trek across in order to catch the third or fourth "leg" or our flight? Or the planes themselves?

Sure makes a girl sitting in row 9 wonder.

TTFN,

Inky