Life Around The World

First Stop, China

Afew minutes before we were coming in for landing, the pilot spoke "Ladies and Gentlemen, we are soon going tobe coming in for landing. So may you please fasten your seat belts as we prepare for landing." I woke Hunter up and told him to buckle his seat belt. As we were coming in for landing, Ilooked out the window as we flew over the Great wall of China. "Whoa! That's one long wall." I said as Hunter leaned his head on myshoulder to take a look at the wall. After we landed on the runway, we had towait until the plane crew got the plane settled, Hunter got up and grabbed ourbackpacks from the cabins above our heads and handed me mine then he startedwalking towards the exit while I let Cali and Jack go before me. Once we wereall off the plane, we went to pick up our suitcases and then made our way tothe doors where a van picked us up to take us to our hotel. Once the van arrived, we all put oursuitcases in the back and got in the back of the vehicle then our driver tookus to the hotel where we were staying.

We all got out of the van and grabbed our suitcases then, we walked through the doors of our gorgeous hotel. The girls and I went to the check-in desk to check in while the boys sat down and talked. "Okay, we're all on the same floor which is good and all of our rooms are close to each other. " Said Cali filling the guys in as we made our way towards our rooms. My room and Hunter's was right beside Jack and Cali's and across from us was Brent and Sophie's room who was directly beside Mina and Justin's room. Hunter put the key in the door then opened it, we walked in and the room was beautiful. "Wow! Look how big this room is and look at our view, it's incredible!" I said as I laid myself across the bed. Hunter placed his suitcase on the chair and laid down beside me, we laid there for a few minutes and then there was a knock at the door. Hunter went to the door and came back with a tray of food. "Looks like we've got ourselves a complimentary meal." He said with a huge smile on his face. I got up and grabbed a box of noodles and a pair of chop sticks. " Best part about eating is I get to use chop sticks." I said letting out a little giggle. A couple minutes later, there was another knock on the door, this time I went to see who it was and when I opened the door, it was the girls with Jack and Brent. " Come on in, we're just finishing dinner." I said as they came to sit down. " You guys got a complimentary meal too?" Asked Brent, Hunter and everyone just laughed and then Hunter said " Yeah I guess it's what they do at this hotel." Everyone laughed and then Cali asked " Mina, where's Justin?" Mina smiled and replied " Oh, he's sleeping, he didn't sleep well on the flight." We all laughed and then I started off with the list of things we would be doing tomorrow throughout the day.

" So tomorrow morning, we're gonna get up early and first activity we're gonna do is the Great Wall Of China, After that, we're going to go for lunch at The Golden Gate restaurant but before we eat, I made plans for us to learn how to cook our favorite Chinese food dish with professional chefs. Then at around 1pm, we're going to learn how to speak Chinese from one of the girls who works with the travel agency and when we're done that, we're all going to learn how to do Karate with the karate from the one and only Jackie Chan. And after dinner tomorrow night, there is going to be a festival and fireworks." I went on about the times we would be doing everything and handed out a schedule of the day then I answered questions about what we would be doing day two . After I was done answering questions, everyone left to go to bed and get some rest before our big day tomorrow and once everyone was gone, Hunter went to take a shower as I got under the covers and watched tv. When he came back he got under the covers and wrapped his arms around me as I leaned into his chest and we laid there watching tv until we both fell asleep.