From today onward, I have to learnt how to be independent and learn how to do my own laundry… Truly anticipating the future yet I have part of my heart left at home. It’s the start of something new! How will China be like? Is the accommodation going to be like a shared dorm with a common toilet? Is it really as dirty as people say it will be? Does the toilet even have doors?
Early in the morning, my entire family sent me to the airport along with Maurice and Ivy. We reached in less than a hour and since there was still time, we went to Burger King to have a quick breakfast. We bade farewell and soon, we were on the plane. I could not believe that I was on my own to a foreign land faraway for the 1st time! Perplexed!
We reached the transit area at canton. There were some screw-ups already! We seemed to have a language barrier with the person at the counter who was supposed to check in our luggage for the next flight even though we spoke the same language=X Sigh. What made it worse was the miscommunication between our group and some of them went missing. In the end, Dina (geraldina) and Frederick (Lecturer) found them out of the check-in area.
After this episode, we went to eat. The entire airport was huge! We ended up at a café where people smoked=_=. It is not like Sg where smoking was banned in an indoor environment. Sigh.
We were running late when we went for the next flight as we overshot the boarding area and took quite awhile to head back. By the way, the airport attendants who checked our belongings and us before we went into the boarding area were very thorough.
We alighted at the Wuhan Airport and had to get off the plane to the ground where there were 2 shutter buses who brought us to the immigration counter. I actually found a crack in my luggage and did not know what to do. So ‘gong’ lo. We could actually claim the losses from the airport.
Leaving the place, I realized that the air was SOOO POLLUTED. The air was dense with dust and my throat feels uncomfortable already. I don’t wanna get use to this… This place seems quite backward and it feels so different from the glamorous Beijing where the Olympic was just held. All around were haphazard buildings and the place so big that even the bus driver got lost! Supposedly it only took 1hr, we ended up taking 3 hrs to reach! The wide big roads without road signs were intimidating as there seem to be a lack of LAW on the roads! Like vehicles and motorists would speed from all directions without waiting for the pedestrians. They ‘U-turn’ without a warning too!
I heard the driver calling out to fellow drivers and he calls the “shifu”(师父)-master. Sounds very polite and though some drivers help to direct him, others scolded him to go away”滚开”. Poor guy!
There was something very cool which happened, the female teacher from china who accompanied us related us to the different parts of China. She said that I look like I’m from Wuhan while dina- Northern part of Beifang, like from Fujian too as she was tall and straightforward. Ivy-looked like she as from Fujian.
The school was inconvenient yet unexpectedly welcoming. All the facilities were there such as the toilet, washing machine, tv, kitchen with fridge and microwave. :)
All the ideas of it being under standard for living dissipated. :) YAY! I wanna go explore!
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