The flight leaves Santiago at 11pm. Its a 12hr flight to Auckland and, as we fly west, we remain in darkness for the duration flying away from the rising sun. I sit amongst a group of Brazilian students heading for New Zealand on an exchange programme for a year to learn English. They're friendly, chatty kids and we communicate through a mixture of Spanish English and Portuguese. They're a little hyper, excited at the start of their big adventure. I don't sleep much but it doesn't bother me. I admire what they are doing. I don't think I could have done that at 17.
We land in Auckland in darkness. I'm expecting a long wait through immigration with all the usual checks they make on your luggage. However, I'm allowed to breeze straight through. Most of the people on the flight are continuing to Sydney so there are very few people to be processed. The speed with which we get through immigration does mean that I have to spend over an hour at the airport waiting on my pick-up from the hostel
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