Tuesday, November 17, 2009

The Journey continues... Part 2

The team made it to our hotel at 12:30 am Wednesday morning (China time).  It has been quite an experience to say the least.  When we were getting ready to leave S Korea headed to Beijing, a representative of  Korean airlines contacted us and told us we would be missing our connection in Beijing.  (We did not realize they had cancelled the last flight of the day to Dalian.)  When we arrived in Beijing by the time we got to the gate someone from the airline was waiting on us to tell us that they were going to try and connect to another flight.  We only had 25 minutes to get across the airport and go through INT customs.  We were able to meet up w/ our friend Ralp Done once we got to the domestic gates.  We sprinted from there to the plane.  Once we were on the plane they immediately closed the gate.  (Just in the nick of time!)  We arrived in Dalian but our luggage did not.  They told us we would have it by morning.  We are to leave once our luggage arrives and head to the school.  This will be a 3 1/2 hour bus ride to get to the school which is in DanDong on the N Korean boarder.   We will meet with the Principal tonight (Wednesday night) and work with the children tomorrow (Thursday).  Will post pics when possible.