Planes Ride

Dear Followers,
Today I left my home at 4:15 AM to reach my first destination of a very long trip. We drove to Bradley international airport. It was so early that there was barely any traffic and we got there in 30-45 min. Upon saying my goodbyes to my mom and brother i went into the airport to see a rather large line, yes, a line at the check-in counter at 5:15 AM, they had two people working at two separate registers. One worker had a man with a show dog who had an enormous kennel at at least the size of a standard refrigerator in the U.S., the dog was a purse sized dog as well. So this held up one line and the other line was held up by a couple with three children and four strollers. I mean really why do you need four strollers for three kids ??? anyway they needed to be checked and that held up the other line. I ended up waiting in line until about 5:50 at which point they decided to open up a third register, only took them 40 min to figure that out. I was able to quickly check my bags and put them through this x-ray thing which was kinda cool. Luckily they didn't choose my bag for a "random" inspection which consists of breaking/opening the lock on the bag if there is one and turning the bag upside down and then jamming all the passengers crap back in. So i got through check-in okay and i got through security without any problems. I got to my terminal and was starving it was about 6:30 and my flight was set for departure at 7:15 and boarding at 7:00. so I ran to the little store thing near my gate and bought some granola parfait, I've become quite fond of the stuff. After which i got on my plane and flew to Chicago. I was unaware of the time difference so I thought that we arrived at 9:40, it was actually 8:40. This had me worrying because my next flight started boarding at 10:00. our gate was taken in Chicago so i sat within 1000 ft of my next plane waiting until 9:10, keep in mind i thought it was 10:10. I kept calm and got off the plane sprinted to the next gate to find a bunch of kids from the group playing cards and completely relaxed. I was freaked out until they gave me quizzical looks and i looked at the Clock in the airport to see it was in fact 9:15. so i went to Starbucks and ate a piece of lemon lb cake, another granola parfait, a blueberry muffin and a raspberry danish. this all went well i got on the plane and ended up sitting next to a middle aged man who was on a trip from the university where he worked, Wright University in Ohio, he said that he was going to dalian in the northeast of china. That was nice i slept for most of the time though and watched a couple of movies. We got to Shanghai and had a 1 hr 30 min bus ride to get to East China Normal University. When we got there we had about 2 hrs of free time to get settled my roommate is Jammel Maddox as planned and he is very nice. after settling down i went to the ATM and got some money out. We went to dinner and had a lot of small dishes and i ate a lot and loved it.

P.S. I might not be able to write this much all the time but i will always have updates everyday