6,592 km
..And this was my first picture I took while standing in Moscow airport alone and no one will be there waiting for me, and being lost there definitely was not a choice.
Just me and my luggage, i was looking around for someone who I can ask what should I do and because I’m a lucky girl i met three Egyptian people there, they told me that they came for some kind of a student activity exchange,actually they were the right people at the right place at the right time, my target was my hotel so i had to Reach Moscow first by two trains then get into the Metro station because the airport of Moscow was Outside Moscow the town itself, and A special thanks for my mother because she printed out the address of the hotel in Russian incase people their didn't understand English.
I don't really have a picture with them as we didn't know each other before and we were all busy thinking of how to reach the first train from the airport as we kept walking from terminal to another till we found it, I thought i would be freaking out that moment as i was alone at the airport with strangers who I hoped that these people be good from inside as they appear to me from outside, but i was completely the opposite as i knew how to keep my calm and here I learnt a really important lesson which was as long as people are nice to you be nice to them but that doesn’t mean to trust them or to rely on them, I had to keep my eyes open and be careful where exactly I am going and make sure it is the right path.
while getting in the train with those Temporarily good friends, one of them sat beside me and told me a lot of different stories about how people act when they traveled alone that a person can let go of all his life principles so easily just for impress others because they saw them act in a different way but what they don't know that what could make a person unique and make his own life precious is having his own principles and live by his own way. At the end everyone will take full responsibility for their own actions.
After we were done with the two trains and reached to the Metro station, finally we were there paying our Metro tickets , Those Temporarily good friends kept asking others about directions inside the Metro as it was like a spider web.
Suddenly they told me they arrived to their station and they have to
leave me now, andi had17 remaining stations till i arrive to my hotel, For the first 15mins I stood there frozen in my place alone just having flashbacks of my life before travelling while people where passing beside of me, i was 6,592 km away from my mother, my friends or any person that could understand me or i can trust.
I felt like i was going to cry but i told myself "Hoda keep calm, control yourself, you are here now and no one can help you, you are the only one that could help you, don't stop trying, and be confident", my mother was calling me at that moment and she felt like there was something wrong in my voice, like i was scared and that was the first time my mother listen me with this voice tone but i also didn't want her to be worried so i told her not to worry about me and i'm going to ask some people about directions and everything will be okay.
I asked several people about my station but no one could speak English and others didn't even answer me or look at me while walking, so I went to ask more people again till someone finally answered me, i started to understand how could a person be alone in a place full of people or without them but it's only you who can save the situation.
its called self dependence, it doesn't matter where you are or how many people around you or how many people you know are there, it will always be "you" and "your problem" either you be calm and solve it or you blow it up and ruin a chance that could turnover your life.
So i kept asking people without giving up till i was out again in the street, i walked till i found a taxi by luck to drive me to my hotel, my sholders and my hands were really hurting me as i was carrying my own luggage by my own all this way.
I didn't only live the moment as a life lesson but i surfed the internet about places i can visit in Moscow when i finally was in my room at the hotel, and i took a screenshot of its maps so i can know where will i go if i got lost there because I didn’t have any internet access in my mobile.
At the end It was a great day for a first day out of 51 days in Russia.