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Diary entry number Four.
Diary entry number four - departing and arriving. Leaving England was surprisingly easy. You just walk onto the plane that they tell you to. I was so paranoid that I'd mess that up. I'd already had a very American and cliche goodbye with my mum outside the terminal where she burst into tears abruptly. I hate it when people do that.
Got on the plane, waited for ten hours. Fun. They had some alright movies but I couldn't watch them on my screen for some reason. They were just messed up. I watched an episode of Spaced, twice. I also watched an episode of 'The league of gentlemen' before realising that it wasn't funny. I'd heard so many good things.
Essentially that day was a mix of me not sleeping and not going to the toilet. Then when I finally arrived in Beijing I had to wait about the airport for four hours until my next flight. I just sat on my luggage paranoid that it might get stolen. A group of kids pointed at me and laughed, as did an old woman with her son. Repetitive cries of 'Yingouren!' and 'Laowai!'. Great. I felt at home.
People kept trying to get my money from me. A woman with huge biceps took me about the place forcefully and kept telling me what to do. It took me ages to realise that she was going to ask me for money after 'helping' me.
The flight to Beijing was alright, simply because I spent the whole time talking to a Chinese girls called Hai'tien (Whose name I can't spell.) Who is probably the most pleasant individual I've ever spoken to. It was good. She even waited for me to get my bags and things. I might go to Beijing to see her sometime in the year. Then again she's coming to England sometime next year, so I might see her then.
Louise, the Academy's tranlator picked me up from Chang Chun airport and we got a taxi back to the academy. It took ages. But China's alright. It has seemingly random distribution of wealth. You see straw and mud huts on the drives to town, where you then see buildings that you'd see in the good areas of London.
The toilets are a big deal....
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