April 12, 2011

Lexi

We just landed in CHINA! Let me start by telling you how our flights went. As you all know we spent Monday night in Hartford and got up really early to go on our first flight to Newark, New Jersey. The airport is the thing that was freaking me out the most because I didn¹t know what to do going through security. It didn¹t go as badly as I thought it would. We got on the plane to go to Newark and it was a very tiny plane. It turned out to not take as long to get there as we expected. I was getting kind of anxious when the plane lifted off but from then on it was fine. We arrived in Newark about 7am. Our plane to Beijing didn¹t leave till 12pm, so that meant we had 5 hours to kill! Throughout those 5 hours we all just walked around and went into the different little stores. We also took some naps, played card games, and grabbed a bite to eat. It was so tiring that we all kept looking at our watches and saying how everyone that¹s in school right now is just arriving while we¹ve been up for 5 hours. Well we made it through that and now all we had to do was make it through a 13-hour flight!

As we were walking toward the plane to Beijing all I could think about was how big this plane is and that we have to go 13 hours cramped together, I didn¹t even know if I would be entertained for 13 hours. But as we got on it, it wasn¹t that cramped and we had TV¹s where we could watch movies, play games, and listen to music. We were all seated together for the most part and when we could take off our seatbelts we were able to get up and stretch and look out the window. We got to see the ice caps and the North Pole. It was so amazing I¹ve never seen anything like that before. We were on top of the world at one point and when you looked out the window it was just blue there was really nothing you could see. But saying that you were on top of the world is the most exciting thing in the world. When they gave us our food it didn¹t seem bad when they said it but when you tasted it, it gave me a stomach ach. Some of us got a lot of sleep on the flight but others were wide-awake for 24 hours. At times some of us didn¹t have anything to do and were getting bored but weoccupied ourselves with games, movies, or reading. Then as we got closer we all started getting more excited, you could tell the difference in the air as we arrived. When we got off the plane, we went to go meet our travel guide named Cindy. She is very nice and took us out to dinner. The food was fantastic, we all needed some real food in our stomachs other than the food on the airplane. We all were very quiet at dinner because we were jet lagged. But the jet lag was worth it because were now in BEIJING, CHINA!