Well after a long day ois no f
traveling I have finally made it to my dorm room at the Jiaoqiao Campus of
Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics. Since I am always keen to
adventure, I got to wake up to an email saying that my first flight (Nashville
to Chicago) had been delayed two hours. This would have it landing as soon as
my plane to Beijing would be taking off. Luckily there was a United Express
plane leaving an hour earlier than my original flight. After a quick flight to
the Windy City and a great Italian Beef Sandwich in the O’Hare Airport, I was
ready to move on to China.
A fourteen-hour flight is no easy
task especially when you are easily one of the biggest people on the plane and
confined to a window seat at the very back of the plane. One thing that United
had provided to make the chore of a trip easier was this:
A touchscreen panel that would allow me to choose my own
movies, TV shows, music, etc. from a pretty extensive list.
Things you should note if you are going to take a tip like
this:
- · If you sit at the back of the plane you do not have a choice of which meal you get. You just have to hope everyone else liked the one that you did not want.
- · As much as the window seat had me trapped, the window has to be the worst for sleepers.
To end this streak of angry typing, once I landed at the
Peking Airport I was so surprise with how easy it was to maneuver once I had
left the plane. Sure I was mainly following everyone else for the first bit of
the navigation, but once I made it off the little subway thing to baggage claim
it was smooth sailing. I managed to get my bags, make it through the airport and to my gate in a timely fashion. I even think got my second bag free because the guy behind the desk and I could not understand each other haha. After another two hour and forty five minute flight I was in Nanchang City in Jiangxi Province. I was picked up by a student who's name I still do not know although we have been hanging out the last two days.
My room is a little tight but I could not expect to much more out of a single in a Chinese college. It has a wardrobe, desk, full sized bed, TV, heater, and bathroom that includes a shower (that gets pretty hot Thank God).
