Beijing

I'm typing this while in my grandparents; house. Everything went smoothly along the way. I even caught some shut-eye on the flight. I suppose I'm sorta predisposed to falling asleep during meal times when I'm tired. Oh, and now that it's past 7 in the morning EST, I can now calculate that for the last 24 hours I've been operating on about 3-4 hours of sleep. I'm not at full capacity, but I'm not a zombie, either. In fact, as I'm writing this now before I go to bed, I'm slowly regaining my senses. The plane was an Airbus A330, the newest in Northwest's fleet, as the pilot said. Being Airbus, it was pretty comfy and was pretty high-tech, even for the economy sections. One thing I noticed, and I wrote it down in my notebook, as well, was that the flight attendants were generally prettier the as your ticket got more expensive. It even applied down to the security checkpoint personnel, as they generally all looked like rejects compared to the beaming flight attendents.

Customs and baggage check went surprisingly quickly, and my mom just so happened to call my aunt and uncle moments before they spotted me coming out. She also called moments after I got into my grandparents' place. Yep, things have gone super-smooth. Even the bathroom smells better than usual (it usually has a musty smell from being poorly ventilated). My cousin's taking an exam tomorrow, so my aunt won't be able to take me out tomorrow, but I have some shopping to do, anyway. She says she'll take me to see the new Transformers movie. I'm surprised it's already released in China; it's probably subtitled rather than dubbed, which is the way I like it. Come to think of it, I should probably give a quick overview of my family before thing's get too confusing. But that's gonna have to be for later, as I'm gonna finish up, go to bed, and probably put this online the next day.