The beginning of my journey begins in a first class lounge for a simple “economy-class” traveller. I was fortunate to receive a coupon to lounge with the rich people in Air Canada’s Maple Leaf Lounge in Terminal 1. Unfortunately the New Terminal 1 at Pearson is still being built so I wasn’t able to enjoy its luxuries just yet. So I sip my last ounces of Keith’s good Nova Scotian brew for the next 4 months (I’m sure they don’t export to Singapore) all while listening to a bizarrely unentertaining biography of Tom Cruise.
The airfield is dark but abuzz with tiny moving lights. It could almost be like me: I look all calm on the outside but really I’m brimming with excitement about the next 4 months. Seems that I can be very pensive when travelling.
An weird yet interesting similarity between the first-class lounge and life in Canada. The first-class world/lounge is what I’m experience now just before I set out into the real world that is “economy class”. Everyone wants to live in upper-crust luxury, but 90% of the world is stuck in tiny seats trying to grab some shuteye that doesn’t happen.
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