How To Amuse Yourself On A Plane

Steps

1. Read - Always a good choice; take at least two books, depending on the scheduled length of your flight. Get books that are easy and fun to read, because you'll be stuck with them. But it is not recommended that you bring your book about aircraft disasters for obvious reasons!
2. Listen to Music - Take your iPod. There's always lots to do on them, and you can buy on iTunes beforehand.
3. Watch a movie - Movies are a good choice, because they last longer and are generally enjoyable.
4. Games - These are, surprisingly, fun for at least a little while. There are lots of games on iTunes besides what your iPod comes with. Also, you can play games while you listen to music.
5. Audiobooks are also available and take a long time to finish. You can just sit back and relax and listen.
6. Socialize - Talk to your seatmates. Sometimes you meet great people.
7. Take sudokus - Take difficult ones. Time flies when you solve them.
8. Knitting or crocheting. -This is a great opputunity to catch up on that crocheting that you never get to do at home.
9. Write - Start that autobiography on yourself that you have been wanting to do for a while, or journal!
10. Stare out the window - Watching the scenery flow by 30,000 feet below can be fascinating. Enjoy the different colors and textures, hills and valleys, structures, and roads.
11. Sleep - Some of us can, some can't. If you want to sleep during the flight, try to get a window seat. That way, you can rest your head on the window or side of your seat.

• Your flight may also be renting DigePlayers (for $15 to $25 U.S. dollars usually), which are portable TVs with a variety of movies, music videos, and TV shows.
• In-flight magazines, though filled with tons of ads, occasionally have great articles. Skim them for a good, surprise read.
• Don't be a pushy conversationalist. Though you are forced to share space with a complete stranger, your seat-mate may not want to talk to you as much as you want to talk to them.

• Some people don't like to be talked to by strangers on a plane.
• Don't use cell phones or other wireless devices during the flight. Be sure to pay attention to announcements concerning when you can and can't use these devices. And, as always, be considerate of others on the plane when using cell phones.
• Do not talk about guns, knives, gangs, bombs, terrorism or anything that has to do with violence!

Things You'll Need

• books
• An iPod
• $15-$25 (if they rent Digeplayers)