TODAY IS THE DAY

8th December, 2011 (8:18pm)

Hey Everyone!

I'm at the airport waiting for the plane. It's been two hours and the plane hasn't boarded yet.

Yay! I'm finally on board :)
Everyone here speaks mandarin or cantanese.. Even the flight attendants. So, it gets really confusing. And there are Chinese dramas on... With tiny English subtitles. Save me!! Haha..
The pilot said it is going to be a 8 hour and 45 min flight. Then we have to change to another plane and that would take 3 hours.

We just had dinner (11:50pm). It was delicious. But then again, I was dying of hunger. We met a nice women who translated some of the phrases the flight attendants said in mandarin to English. But whenever they pass they always speak in Chinese.. And I'm like what? Yeh, it's pitch black outside.

9th December, 2011

Could not sleep, massive jet lag. It's 7:05 am in Aussie time and 4:05am in china time. Right now the plane is getting bumpy. We're flying over hong kong into Guangzhou. Wish me luck :)

I'm in China! It is currently 5:59am china time and my flight comes at 8:55am. After a lot of immigration stuff, and an annoying pat down even though I had no metal on me. I think china is more strict than Australia. I noticed the sit down toilets.. I was like.. Uh?? But no worries, there were normal toilets too. And in the airport there are never ending escalator things.. I was so happy :)

I'm finally on the plane. This planes good. The flight attendants are nice. And they have 3 translations over the speaker. First is cantanese, Korean and then English. But the pilot.. Wow.. I think he tried to kill me. It wasn't a smooth take off. I couldn't breath for like 1min. Now it's really sunny. China is really foggy. I don't know whether it's the pollution or the weather. It is bloody freezing. I can see the blue skies :) and the clouds. They look like marshmallows.

Stay tuned for more :)

Cheers,
Sharna

(I miss Sam)