I am currently sitting in an airport people watching. One of my favorite things to do. I am taking a few days to go to a different city to visit a friend. Well, this is going to be interesting. My friend doesn’t speak any English and I will be without anyone who does. So, I am going to have to speak Chinese for real for the next 3 days. Not that big of a deal. I’ve had to speak Chinese for the last 3 or 4 days anyway. So I think I can get by. But what makes this trip different from the other trips is that I booked everything myself and it will be my first solo trip.
I am traveling to a city where I have never been, staying at a hotel that I have never been, have to speak Chinese, take a bus from a big city to a smaller city without getting lost, and then from that bus stop to the hotel, check in, etc.
It’s going to be interesting to say the least.
Now for some people watching.
Most all the people inside the airports in China are businessmen. Mainly because it’s so expensive. Common people can’t afford to fly. There are a lot of well off people here too. Also because of the expensiveness of flying.
Most all the girls look like they are from Beverly Hills. Big sunglasses and what not. Trying to look all cool. So at least we know where they get their style from.
This airport is nice.
Flying in China is a trip in itself. The like to delay all the flights and blame it on other things. Weather, late arrival of the aircraft, out of gas who knows. But I hear the real reason it that the government controls the airspace. Thus if they don’t want you to take off or something like that you wait. Maybe someone needs to pay someone off to take off, I don’t know, but I wouldn’t doubt it’s something like that. Basically you have to plan on every flight being delayed. All the time. I say that but my flight isn’t delayed. So that kind of contradicts my statements.
I think I am going to practice some of my Chinese while I wait. Sounds like fun. I better saddle up because I don’t see a plane at the terminal yet, I bet that it’s going to be delayed. As usual.