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My Mainland Travel Diary--001: Having A Business Trip to Dalia

Friday afternoon,I was informed to go to Dalian and Shanghai for a business trip from Sunday to Tuesday.

This morning,I started for the airport at 9:45am. As soon as I reached the airport, I knew the airplane was delayed until 1:30pm.. No problem, I took my computer with me, I could do my things in the airport. So, I bought a lovely plush animal in the airport hall, to have my lunch, then to prepare to write some business letters. Anyway, my computer has no enough power, so that I had to go to a small shop to ask help. The young girls were so warm and they helped me to connect the electronic sours at once. However, the line was too short so that I had to stand beside the counter to work on my computer...

Finally, I heard the message to go aboard. This is a small Boening 737 that can only take 144 passengers, and it was very full. Just like I had experienced from Bangkok to Paris, maybe for the airplane was later, from 12:30 to 17:30, just 5 hours, the airport and the airplane offered us three meals. Wow! My God! So much food and drink, how could we take it? I guessed most of food in the airplane had to be thrown into the ash cart. At least, I had not touch last twice food at all...

Anyway, the service in the airport and airplane was excellent. First of all, the service of airhostesses were very considerate. For example, as soon as people were waiting for the washroom, the airhostesses would wait by the room and informed the people one by one. When I saw a beautiful airhostess go to me and inform me that there was no person in the washroom, I could go there then, I was so touched. Even though I didnot know her name. I would not forget her smiles...When the airplane was when the airplane started to land, they offered us sweets for reducing the uncomfortable in our ears...Do you know which airport line it is? It is just our Shenzhen Airport Line, one of my favourite airport lines.

At about 17:35pm, I reached Dalian Airport and one of my colleaguges who was boarded from Shanghai Airport and I made the first negotiation with our business partner in Dalian in the night. Now I have finished checking the agreement, and have entered the Internet in the hotel to write this traveling diary.

I am going to visit the city in the early morning, then to do the second negotiation and to sign the agreement. Then I will leave Dalian for Shanghai at 15:20pm. tomorrow afternoon...

--Shirley
Written In the Crand Hotel Dalian, China On 5th.,Nov.,2000
Edited on 5th.,July,2005