Post Easter traveling= bad idea

Pic I took over the North Pole

Last night I didn’t get much sleep, I don’t know if I actually planned to get 2 hrs of sleep before my flight or I just didn’t feel like sleeping but either way I was checking and double checking that I had everything in my luggage.

My parents, sister, and I left the house around 5am to make it to my 7am flight to Newark. When we got the airport, I came to the sudden realization that it was the day after Easter/spring break, therefore hordes of people would be returning to school or their homes.

Waiting to get my boarding pass and going through security made me feel like I was already in China because of the pushing and short-tempers of people who had to wake up at 4am.

Once it was ok to use electronic devices on the plane, I popped open my laptop but to my demise, somehow the sound card driver was missing. Seriously, an 18 hr travel day and no laptop to listen to movies, and since I ripped all my dvds at home, there were no subtitles.

When the plane landed, I pretty much ran to my gate so I could sit down and try to connect to some kind of wireless in the airport. The gate my flight was at was packed with people, and I found a spot across from an elderly man, but a minute later someone kept going *pst pst hey china* and it was this big black African guy telling me to get out of my seat because he was sitting there first…I didn’t really want to deal with more stuff so I just picked up my stuff and went somewhere else.

By some act of God, the wireless in the Continental elite club was unsecured so I quickly got on and downloaded my drivers and got sound so that made me very happy.

There was no one sitting in the middle seat, and I tried to have a conversation with the person sitting in the isle seat, but after a while he decided to switch to English just to make the conversation more interesting I suppose haha…but seriously I was stammering and scrounging for words which makes me feel all the more in trouble once I get to Beijing.

Right now I’m sitting on the plane with not much to do. I watched a movie on my ipod and slept for about an hour or so, the movie selection on this flight weren’t great so I’ve been trying to review my Chinese book instead of watching Becoming Jane - -‘’

Once I get to Beijing, I need to get to the Agricultural bank of China and open an account and have the money from my Wells Fargo account transfer over, but it won’t be available till tomorrow, but there’s no fee for it so that’s really nice.

Then I have to go to school and register for housing and pay tuition, not exactly sure of the process of that but I have an inkling that I’ll have a taste of pointless bureaucracy while I stand in lines, fill out papers, and get stuff stamped, verified, and re-verified.