Homeward Bound

It's good to be home.

It was a pretty good travel from Hludao-Beijing-Manila then to Zamboanga. Last Saturday was the school's 7th Graduation Ceremonies. As usual, I was the emcee again. We started a quarter past 9 which was super late in terms of "chinese's time standards." The program was supposed to start at exactly 9, however, the people from the local media was late. Luckily, we managed to finish at 11:15. After my last phrase "...live and grow in the loving world, " I rushed to change my attire and got my packed things which i brought to the WarTai Hotel early that day. I had to run past other kids and parents waiting on the elevator door.   I had to move quickly and jump into the taxi to the bus station. Ms. Rose and Ms. Jessie helped me through the rushing. We reached the bus station and I had to line up immediately as the officers checked the tickets.

I reached Beijing and had to rest for the next day's flight. I stayed in Dheck's flat in Bejing. The next day, Dheck and I luckily managed to rent a car to bring us from the flat to the airport. It was a 40 minute ride from ZhongGuanCUn to the Airport. We checked-in at 3 in the afternoon. The checking in was on time but the plane left  Beijing 30 minutes past the scheduled time 4:15pm. China Southern Airlines is one good Chinese Airlines but they rarely have delays. It was just a bad day perhaps. On the other side, it was a safe a nice journey. There were a lot of pinoy kids on board the plane. The kids were participants to a mathematics competition sponsored by Mathematics Teachers Guild (MTG). I heard some kids fared in the competition well. I saw some kids with big glass trophies. The airlines had to stop in Xiamen at 7:15pm  and flew to Manila after an hour. By the way, one good point: They serve good meals 2 times. We reached Manila at 10 30pm and had to rushed through the long immigration line. Most people lining up were 'balikbayans' like me. It was blisstalgic (bliss+nostalgic) to see how excited their faces are while carrying duty free bags with chocolates and other stuffs.

After the long line, we rode the shuttle bus to Terminal 2/Centennial Airport at 1 am. As soon as I reached there, I saw the infamous bee mascot in red and yellow. waaaaaaaa! Jollibee time! We enjoyed eating spag and chicken after a year of crazing. I waited at the airport for my next flight which is at 4 am. Luckily, I reached the city safe and sound with God's grace and guidance.  There was no bombing cases! ouch.. I really feel disheartened to listen to bad news like bombings in the city. I hope these incidents would not happen again.

Whooops, I feel so happy to be back home again. See you around guys.