3 45 a m overnight the community s population has gone from approximately 9 000 to 16 000 i m sure barely any of us have slept tonight we re hopeful that our visitors will be back in the air come morning i woke up from this dream which i can t quite remember but there was this music in it that i d heard somewhere before i woke up from a dream that we were stuck in some backwater canadian town and that my air mattress deflated i woke up to the smell of freshly baked bread 4am in newfoundland is breakfast time in germany and we got a lot of passengers here from frankfurt so breakfast starts at 4am and we start scrambling eggs poached eggs scrambled eggs omelettes fried bologna something called toutons i saw a casserole dish i don t think i could lift they made enough food to feed 7 000 people it s like they never slept there s this one man from the middle east well we don t really know hasn t said a word to a soul and some of the other passengers seem a bit wary of him so it s a little odd to find him poking around the kitchen oh hello hello can i help you with something  i would like to be of assistance with the food oh no that s not necessary but i am a really you go out there and sit down i ve been going all night but i can t stop none of us can i splash some cold water on my face and just keep going we ve got 7 000 scared and angry people who don t want to be here and they re about to wake up in a crowded room filled with strangers sleeping an airplane blanket and pillow on the floor the sun comes streaming through the window and i can t sleep anymore staring at these strangers waking up around me sitting in a crowd of people waiting for the phone and in a town that s suddenly doubled population i feel so alone it s like any of us could have died on tuesday and like we re dared to see things differently today i m feeling different distant strange who are these people here where am i no one knows me here who am i if i don t feel like the me from yesterday i wake up in a crowded room full of people sleeping on the floor and i see diane and ask are we leaving any time now is your hair different i mean you look good i like it hm thank you no shampoo for three days they start handing out clothes to anyone who needs them i haven t changed my clothes in thirty nine hours i wanted to burn my socks kevin puts on this plaid thing he says he s incognito and that he s going to blend in with the natives but he just looks like a gay lumberjack changing into another woman s donated set of clothes looking different feeling kind of different too i can t quite explain but when i woke when david wasn t on that plane it s like i changed into somebody else but who and it s somehow like we re at a costume party and for a second you are not yourself you are not yourself and you look around and blink your eyes and barely even recognize the person in the mirror who s turned into someone else hey little sister yeah still here where they eat rainbows for breakfast are you taking care of mom no i just wish i was home no not la brooklyn shut up you re such a brat no i just needed to hear your voice excuse me are you hannah yeah that s me my name s beulah someone told me your son s a firefighter yeah mine is too here in town and i know gander s not new york but is there anything i can do no i just need to hear from my son i understand praying for a phone call praying for a way home asking questions asking can i get back on that godforsaken plane and all around me people chat and people snack like nothing s happened and i need to hear we re going back before i go insane good morning i m captain bass i ve just heard from the airline now i know this is going to be hard to hear but the american airspace remains closed i can t tell you how long we ll be on the ground but we are gonna be here for some time here for some time here for some time here for too long here for how long when will we know when will we know how much longer beulah wait can you help me find a catholic church i can t sit here i need to get some air let s go see where we are the sun s out it ll do you good seriously you know what go get lost in the woods i m going to be ready when we leave and it s somehow like we re stuck here at a messed up costume party and there s nothing here familiar far away from those you care for on an isolated island in between there and here there and here