Somewhere over China pt.2

I left Melbourne yesterday afternoon, and now about 7 gazillion hours later I am still in transit. While the lovely Singapore Airlines check-in lady allowed me to check through all 34kg of luggage, she asked me to remove something from one of my bags as it was a bit heavy. A strategically placed Evil Teddy Bear came out, much to the amusement of all. He has now been travelling in the luxury of my carry on luggage, little pink head poking out from the top. My mum pointed out the nice symmetry of this as the first time I travelled overseas (at nine-years old) I had a Pound Puppy protruding from my backpack.

The flights have been great, aside from a 4 hour layover in Singapore at around midnight. On both legs of travel I have had three seats to myself and have been able to stretch out and sleep fairly well. The inflight entertainment system is unreal, there is something like 60 movies and 220 cds to chose from. The iPod was relegated to the seat pocket for much of the time as the system allows passengers to listen to full cds, make playlists etc etc. I checked out the movie Mr & Mrs Smith, brilliant eye-candy and a suitable plane-movie. There were a bunch of other films I would have liked to have watched but I settled for an episode of Little Britain and some sleepy bo bos.

In Singapore I had a wander around, made use of the free internet facilities and eventually caught up with the other China-bound AYADs. There are 8 of us heading to China in this intake, however I’m the only one posted to Chongqing. It was great to catch up with them again after PDT and I’m sure we’re all looking forward to the next week of training in Beijing.

We have just begun our descent towards Beijing and I have been told that the computer needs to be put away. More news soon!