Chicago

Members of the team as we waited for a new plane – more than a three hour delay but we were happy for a plane that works.

Matt Sleeps

Matt Kennedy catches a nap on the flight to Hong Kong. And here is the rest of the story. Upon landing in Hong Kong we were told about a Typhoon that was bearing down on the Hong Kong area. Our flight attendants told us that twice the pilot was considering diverting the flight because of the storm - Once as we passed Tokyo and once as we passed Taiwan. Thankfully he pushed on to Hong Kong and got us on the ground just hours before the airport was closed. With the storm still closing in and land fall unknown, it was decided that we should forgo the stay in Hong Kong Saturday night and attempt to get to Macau. But we found that all the ferrys from the airport were canceled but were told if we hurried we might make the last ferry from Hong Kong island to Macau. We jumped on the train at the airport, made it to Hong Kong island and after a 20 minute walk we purchased our tickets and were quickly ushered to the last hydrofoil to Macau. We spent the night in Macau and found the Sunday noontime walk into China was a piece of cake after a day of delays and narrow misses of disaster.

Macau

The group makes its way to a bus in Macau to the border gate into China.

Shirts

Chinese school administrators Adam and Jumbo sort through shirts in the school’s court yard as Piers and Luke look on. The bottom line to this post is, everyone is finally in China. We walked the school and talked about the program Sunday afternoon. Except for jet lag, everyone is doing great and we are excited to start our program bright and early Monday morning. PS – The typhoon missed Hong Kong to the north.