Day 1
July 3, 3:45am- The alarm went off.. It was excruciating to open my eyes after only been sleeping for a couple of hours. Minimum necessary grooming applied & off to the airport.
July 3, 3:45am- The alarm went off.. It was excruciating to open my eyes after only been sleeping for a couple of hours. Minimum necessary grooming applied & off to the airport.
7:05am- The plane takes off to San Francisco as scheduled. I am sitting in the first low window side where I can’t see the communal TV screen. I guess I am so spoiled by personal entertainment unit in other planes. Airlines shouldn’t have introduced entertainment unit to the public if they couldn’t install that in every plane. After ridden in such a plane many times before, riding in a plane like this seems so outdated and unjustified. Oh well, I have to entertain myself in old fashioned way.
9:30am local time - arrived in San Francisco & sudden strike of hunger overtook me.. It looked like most of people in our group felt the same way. We are all scattered to the restaurants –not that there are many options-& continue waiting to be on board on the next plane to Shanghai which ended up as 5hrs lay over. Cam, Dominique & Patricia from Edmonton joined us at this point.
July 4, 5:30pm local time. Finally our group arrived in Shanghai after intensively long traveling. It took exactly 25hrs and a half since I left home, which is long enough for any person could expire. However, brutality of not being introduced to any decent personal care continues. Our group happened to be the last to arrive in Shanghai & everyone was waiting for us to go to dinner together. We weren’t even allowed to get off the bus at the hotel. The bus picked up all the early arrivals who had plenty of time to have shower & get changed & off to the restaurant..Oh well, they are the ones who has to put up with 15 expired people..Despite of the grunge feeling of not being able to shower, I was surprised by my appetite at the dinner table. I am gulping down Chingtao & Chinese grease in a flash. During the dinner, Thekla, a president of BC Alpha introduced organizers, so called ‘Important people’ to the entire group. I am part of the important people too..Weird!!
10:30pm- Hurray!…. I can finally stretch my legs & take a shower…I am extremely tired but somehow can’t sleep though…It is 10:30am back home.1:00 am here - All right! That’s it. I am going to medicate myself to sleep.
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I now realized how difficult this trip is going to be for you. Knowing you and how you need your meals on time, this trip is going to throw everything off! I know that you are not that particular about what you eat but you are somewhat particular about when you eat. All joking aside, you are going to have a great adventure. Enjoy every moment and soak it all in.
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