Early in the morning I woke up and my mother had served me milk because she knew that I would have a long journey to China. Before becoming a lecturer, I never really thought to go to China. Although the daprture time was 9.00 a.m, I thought the leaving home was better early in the morning because we found the traffic jamp everywhere in Jakarta. After I had arrived at the Sukarno Hatta Airport, the first thing I did was to confirm the terminal where the counter of China Southern Airlines was. There were some logos of several airlines company. I went to the security check after I had shown my ticket. Although I looked for the counters with logo of hina Southern Airlines, I did not find them. Afterwards I asked an officer abd he said that I should wait until 6.00 a.m at the counters that were used by China Airlines.
The flight would land at Guangzhou International Airport at 3.00 p.m. There were industrial buildings that could be seen from inside the plane. I thought that the city was full of smoke and it was not good for the health. After the plane had landed smoothly, I got off and the first thing I did is go to the immigration. It was not any problem with my passport that was checked by the immigtation officer. People who entered China were always checked their passport and the country they were coming from, especially from Africa where Ebola oubreak was found. After I had left the immigration, I walked to the transit counter where I got an information that I should go to another area after I entered a security check into the domestic terminal. I was a man in front of me released his jacket, belt, watch, hand phone, and all the metal things, so did I. After finishing to be checked, I walked behind the people who were going to domestic gate. Because there walked so fast, I was left far behind them with no tired because I was very happy ... and I laughed at myself “aha ... you are so strong walking in the long aisle ... without having lunch because afraid of plane missing”
It was 10 p.m when I arrived at Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport. The airport is the major airport serving Chengdu, which is the capital city of the Sichuan Province in China. The airport got its name from the county where it is located, Shuangliu County, which is about 16 kilometers or 10 miles southwest of the city center. Following people go out the airport, I asked where I could find a bus station to Minshan Hotel. According to an officer, gone there was no bus to Minshan hotel in the evening after 10 p.m, and he suggested me to go by taxi. There were many taxis queuing in front of the outside gate, so I came to appear one of them and I tried to get in with my bag, but the taxi driver refused me. I tried another one as I did before, but once again the taxi driver refused me. What was wrong with me? An airport officer came to help me and he put my bagg into the baggage. Oh, it was a fool of my custom to put a big bag in the taxi in Jakarta.
It was my problem when the taxi driver asked me where I wanted to go. I could not speak China and he ccould not speak English. I took my hotel reservation that privoded with Chinese character, afterwards I shew him. He smiled and said OK. After we had arriver at the hotel, I gave him money and the taxi driver gave me the change CNY 10 with the bill. A trip going to Minshan Hotel costed around CNY 80 plus toll fee CNY 10.