After all the traveling and stress of missing a member from our group we finally landed in China.  After a long flight all you want is to go to a nice room, relax, and have a nice meal to eat.  And you think that could easily happen, but problems hit our group instantly after landing.  After landing in the Beijing airport I was so happy to be with my group because this airport felt so confusing to me.  It was huge and I was surrounded by a foreign language.  After receiving our luggage we encountered our first problem.  We had no idea who was picking us up!  We didn’t know if someone was picking us up from the airport or if we had to find our own way through china.  After we found our way and made it to our hotel we came across our second problem.  The workers at the front desk of the hotel said we didn’t have a room there…  ummm.. we don’t have a room in china?? what are we gonna do!  We decided to try calling our group leader to get this all cleared up since he booked our rooms, but every time it rang a different person answered..  This was my first big problem in China.  After spending such a long time in the hotel lobby trying to act out what we wanted to say to this Chinese worker just to get a room, we discovered that our room reservation was under the students name who just so happened to be the one who wasn’t in China yet.  What a relief once we got this all figured out, but what are the odds the one person who wasn’t in China was the one whose name was in charge of our rooms.  Even a minute after the fact this became a fun story that’s easy to look back and smile at.

Already been an adventure and its the first day! Can’t wait to have more.