{"id":775,"date":"2013-05-19T07:42:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T07:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/?p=775"},"modified":"2013-05-26T07:47:19","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T07:47:19","slug":"is-anyone-going-to-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/2013\/05\/19\/is-anyone-going-to-dallas\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Anyone Going to Dallas?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019m writing this while on a 13 hour flight to Tokyo where we have a 24 hour layover. We will get to go on a bus tour of Tokyo and fly out for Beijing the next morning. While all that sounds grand and simple, it was a real struggle to get here.<\/p>\n

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Remember when I mentioned that stupid things like having a virus would happen to me? Well some more fun things have been happening to me all day, and all before it was even 8 am. I don\u2019t even get up that early. Ever.<\/p>\n

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After the kiosk would not work, I had to use another, which made me the first person to receive a boarding pass that said, \u201cWe are unable to assign you a seat right now.\u201d I later found out that that meant I did not have a seat because the flight was overbooked. Naturally I had a panic attack. Immediately following, I had forgotten that I put my hair products and face wash in my carry on, and it was too much liquid for the carry on. I went downstairs to put it in my checked luggage as I was instructed, and to my dismay, the lady wouldn\u2019t let me! The nerve of some people….<\/p>\n

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Dr. Chin from UNA was checking her luggage at the same time I was having my crisis. In tears over having to possibly throw away my face and hair products (you just don\u2019t mess with that), I yelled \u201cIs anyone else going to Dallas?!\u201d One lady said yes, and then Dr. Chin said \u201cOh, put it in mine,\u201d which I had asked her to do three times. There was a language barrier so I am not being angry when I say that. I was just thrilled that she said she would. Shout out to Dr. Chin. I then sprinted up the escalator to figure out my seating situation.<\/p>\n

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After waiting in line to ask about my flight, I looked down to notice the busted zipper on my bag. I again began to cry. Some of the other students came to comfort me about my misfortune with the flights, and I tried to stay positive. (I was not very successful). I did get a seat on the flight to Dallas with the rest of the group and went through the same process to get on the Tokyo flight.<\/p>\n

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After all that, I am on this plane until it touches down in the land of Japan. I really hope my luck on the trip goes up from here. None of my fortune cookies told me this would happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing this while on a 13 hour flight to Tokyo where we have a 24 hour layover. We will get to go on a bus tour of Tokyo and fly out for Beijing the next morning. While all that sounds grand and simple, it was a real struggle to get here.   Remember when I mentioned that stupid things like having a virus would happen to me? Well some more fun things have been happening to me all day, and all before it was even 8 am. I don\u2019t even get up that early. Ever.   After the kiosk … \/\/ Read more<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[157,59,58,52,53,57],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","tag-china","tag-flight","tag-plane","tag-study-abroad","tag-travel","tag-una"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildingthepride.com\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}