according to God's Grace: Day 1

The flight here was horribly long! I kinda didn't eat much cause airplane food tastes and smells weird to me. Ate some snacks though. So i guess i survived really well. :D

We first took a 3 hr plus plus flight to Hong Kong. This flight was the most interesting. I was sitting next to Jie Jie. And there was this really interesting and funny dude, called Darren, who is a air steward of United. He entertained all of us Wheelockies. He welcomed us through the system and gave us any special stuff. I remember waking up from a nap and i needed the bathroom bad! So i stood up and walked to the back. Darren was talking to yi xuan and jas t. like really loudly. So i had the 'i-just-woke-up-don't-talk-to-me' face. He pointed at me and asked yi xuan and jas t., 'is she one of the few?'. I found out after the loo that he was asking abt any nasty girls in the cohort. yi xuan and jas t. defended me of course. hahaha. I joked with him after the loo. He's really funny. Can't exactly remember what we talked about. So later, my sinus was working up as usual. He saw me sneeze like crazy, so he asked if i needed tissue. I nodded my head and he came back with a BOX of tissue! hahah. sweet dude. haha.

From Hong Kong, Geri warned us that we might have to 'amazing-race' run to the next gate for transit to San Francisco. We didn't even run, we just walked. Reached there with a lot of time to spare. The flight from Hong Kong to San Francisco was the worst flight ever! Luckily i sat near ppl i'm closer to. Syaf sat next to me. I talked, slept, watched parts of shows, slept, ate a lil, slept, went to the loo, slept. Oh ya! I think at the middle of the flight, vic, abby, syaf and i looked out the window and we saw nothing but the dark sky and MANY MANY stars! it was totally amazing la! Then we saw a really nice sunrise too!!! Actually, i can't remember that much about the flight, other than, it was really quite bad. hahaha.

At San Francisco, that's when the nightmare began. For those who have gone to US before, the customs there is crazy and super super mafan. Fazelah got sent for secondary check as she went through customs. I only saw her walking there but didn't know it was some serious thing. Everyone reached the belt to check out our luggages. But none of us saw fazelah after. We paniced. Well, i know i did cause she's part of my group. Due to the lack of time in between our flights, we all had to move on. So we went through the declaration section. Many didn't know and declared that they had food items in their luggages. So their luggages were opened and ransacked. Some people's cup noodles got confiscated. Someone's rendang was confiscated. hahaha. Interesting. So that part was another delay. While, those were at the declaration section, the rest of us moved on to the third part, which checked all our hand luggage. Our check-in luggages were checked in again. At the third part, we had to take out all liquids and laptops from the covers, anything metal in our pokets, even belts and watches. We even had to take off our shoes! so mafan la. hahaha. The rest of us went through smoothly. But fazelah was still uncontactable! Finally, stef somehow got through to her and Geri calmed her down and guided her all the way to the domestic flight gate, which is very far from where we alighted. She arrived safely. She ran over and broke down. The poor girl. Must have had the worst experience ever. Everything turned out fine actually. haha. We boarded the next plane with everyone in one piece. haha. On our way to board the plane, something super funny happened. There was this very friendly ang moh lady who talked to lydia.
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Here's the conversation:
Ang Moh Lady (AML): So how was California?
Lydia: Er, i haven't been there.
AML: haha. My dear, you're in California right now. San Francisco to be exact. haha.
Lydia: hahaha. Oh shit. So sua ku.
Rest of us: Laughing our heads off!!!
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Super funny la! We took a video to re-enact the scene. The AML happened to sit right behind lydia somemore! hahahaha.

The flight from San Francisco to Boston was another 5 hours i think. Roughly la. That was a long flight too, considering it's within US!!!! hahaha. I sat next to Geraldine and had a great talk with her. Loves, dear. Wonder if she'll see this. hahaha. hmm, we slept after that. Cause there was this ang moh dude who was sitting next to me, i didn't go to the loo. I had to 'ren'. When we landed, i rushed for the LOO!!! hahaha. We landed, got our luggages and took a chartered bus back to the Wheelock Campus. And the rest was history! hahaha

We reached the lovely, high-tech, new building, which is our hostel. Really cool i must say! though i would prefer the old, 'harry-potter' like building, which sounds a lil freaky. hahaha. But i like.. oh well, no choice. this new building is really nice too! hahha. We settled our stuff down, had pizza for supper. The pizza looked plain, but it was SOOOOOO goooooodddd!!! serious! really good. Better than all the pizzas i've eaten in Singapore. hahaha. Then showered and slept at 2am after skyping and settling stuff and talking to vic.

Got photos to show you the journey. Somewhat. hahaha. Enjoy.