Hong Kong Airport

I'm so thankful that I can sleep on planes! I pretty much slept like a baby. The only uncomfortable thing was that I was in the middle and I wanted to get up and stretch a bunch of times or wanted to drink more water but didn't cause I didn't want to bother the people next to me!  Still, I was comfortable and the 15 hour flight wasn't bad at all! Dinner was gross but breakfast and an little veggie sandwich I got were the best. Our flight attendant was super cute too, added bonus ;)

The plane had a camera mounted by the wheels so even though I was stuck in the middle seat with no windows around, I could watch us landing via the camera :)

We landed in Hong Kong and I could see a little of the city thru the windows in the airport. Wow! I'm gonna have to come back here. It's pretty! You have the water and mountains and these huge buildings ... I thought it looked cool! The airport is super modern with tons of shopping. 

I was excited cause I got a snack at Starbucks and paid with my Starbucks card app on my phone!! :) I love technology. Then this guy on the trip, Chris, told me of this app - Magic Jack that let's you call for free! What?!?! So I called Mami and Abu and it totally works!! I so surprised them!!! They're without a computer and I can't text them so I was excited to have a way to communicate with them while I'm gone. I hope it works in Nanjing ... We'll see!!

I've met probably half of the group already. Everyone is so nice!!! I'm super excited for this opportunity!! Yay!!!

Oh! One of the girls here, went to NHS!!! She graduated in 2004 and has been teaching Spanish for 2 years. I never had her but it made me so happy to meet her and be with her on the trip!  There are some young teachers as well as some more experience (older) ones ;)

Now I'm flying to Shanghai. 2 hours. I'm so excited. SO EXCITED to be here!!!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhh ;)

I'll post some pictures I took from the plane of us landing and from the airport windows of Hong Kong. 

Oh, they had a prayer room next to the restrooms at the airport.  I thought that was cool, so I went in and prayed :) 

Oh! One more thing. When we got in this plane for Shanghai, they had a newspaper sitting out with a picture of people wading in knee-deep water: flooding in Nanjing! That's where I'll be in like 5 days. And our hotel is right by the river ... Hope it's not serious ....