After hours of traveling from Scarborough, Maine all the way to Macau, China I have successfully made it halfway around the world (small round of applause). The journey was not especially difficult just long and tiring. The first portion of my trip was the bus ride from Portland, Maine to Boston Logan Airport where the man next to me found a way to complain about everything possible… not a great way to start a very long trip. At the airport, check in went fine and I managed to find my gate with hours to spare. At 4:05pm we started boarding the plane and at 4:35pm we took off. The lady next to me was quite pleasant and talked to me about the show that was playing which I decided to call, “RICH REALTORS WITH NO LIVES”. We landed in Los Angeles earlier than expected and I struggled to find where to go next, and once I finally located the international terminal I spent the next 5.5 hours finding ways to pass the time. Finally at 1:15am (LA time) we got on board the Cathay Pacific flight- to anyone ever considering flying to Hong Kong, Cathay Pacific is a wonderful airline, highly recommended- next to me was a Buddhist monk who could not speak English but was quite friendly, when we were given hot towels he looked at me and smiled huge saying “ow, hot, hot” and when we finally landed said, “final!”. On my other side was an engineer heading to Vietnam for work, he talked to me and advised me that in China lines are not a thing and that spitting is quite common. Fortunately for me I slept for 9 hours out of the 13.5 hour flight, and spent the rest of the flight trying to figure out where the headphone jack was so I could watch a movie (it was right in front of me the whole time). Once in Hong Kong customs and security went smoothly-it was finding the ferry terminal that was hard. When I asked the information desk they told me that I had to take bus A11 to the Macau Ferry Terminal in central Hong Kong. Now, there is a ferry terminal in the airport itself but because of my location it was “impossible” for me to backtrack to the terminal so I navigated myself through the airport to the buses and somehow managed to find my way to the terminal in Central Hong Kong. My luggage was 66lbs and had one broken wheel so I was definitely getting a good workout while dragging it throughout the city. Once I arrived at the ferry terminal what the engineer told me became reality-lines are not a thing, I had to fight to get my ferry ticket and then get my sticker for which seat I would have on the boat… getting on the boat was madness, people pushing past each other trying to get on the ferry first- crazy! Once onboard, the ride to Macau was easy sailing (so punny). The skylines of both Hong Kong and Macau are beautiful, and I still can’t really believe that I am here. In Macau I met up with two students (Yanki and Eda) who brought me to my dorm, and finally my journey to Macau was done. The dorm itself is awesome, the bed is huge, I get my own bathroom, and there is air-conditioning and a fan (IT IS RIDICULOUSLY HOT HERE). For dinner the other 3 ETAs and I went to a place nearby and enjoyed dishes like beef cartilage, chicken hot pot, cauliflower and pork fat and spicy soup dishes… so good and now I am so full. I am super excited to explore Macau and Hong Kong in more detail!!
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