I finally made it to China!

After leaving The JFK airport Thursday August 21, I got diverted to Korea instead of the planned destination in Hong Kong. There was a typhoon that hit the Hong Kong coastal area and that forced the airport to shut down until it passed. That's why I went to Korea. I landed in the Incheon airport close to 2 or 3 in the afternoon went through customs and then was taken on a shuttle to a hotel the airline provided for us in Soeul which is roughly an hour from Incheon. I stayed the night and left at 3:30 in the morning to drive back to the airport for the 6:20 AM flight that would take me the rest of the way to Hong Kong. Only one other person that was going to China with my program flew with me the rest all flew in one large group. After we landed, her and I went and got our tickets changed to a new flight to get to Changsha the closest airport to Xiangtan in the Hunan province. The flight was set for 3:55 PM but got delayed to 6 PM then got delayed one more time to 6:30 PM before finally leaving. We got to Changsha around 8:30, I want to say, where there was someone waiting to pick us up. They took us to the University and we got settled into our apartments and then went to bed.

The rest of our group has been stuck in the Hong Kong airport since Friday all the way to Monday morning for some reason I'm not sure of yet. They flew out this morning and they should be here within the next hour or so. Somehow after their flight to Hong Kong they left the airport to take a day trip in Hong Kong since they had a 10 hour layover and for some reason they couldn't get back into the airport until this morning. I'm not sure what happened exactly but I'm glad I didn't get stuck there with them. Well I'll update you in a day or two once my orientation starts! Love you all!