YMX 1: Off to Dreamland

April 13, 2012

This is it! The trip of a lifetime. I naturally wake up early if I'm excited about a special activity or if its my birthday. But there's nothing exciting about school today and I'm not celebrating my birthday either. I'm up early because I'm going to Europe today! Yes, Europe!

So I started my day by posting a pic of Belgium and Holland in Facebook as my way of saying goodbye for the meantime to my friends.

Goodbye photo in Facebook (Source: Google)

My dad and I were about to go to the airport, when suddenly, Danica, a co-delegate texted me that our flight got delayed from 10am to 4 in the afternoon. So what I did was that I went back home and double-checked my luggages and see if I'm brought everything I needed. After lunch, mom and dad brought me to the airport.

My last rice meal in Cebu

When I got there with the rest of the delegates, I was shocked with their huge luggages. I felt so unprepared during that time.

While waiting for boarding, our group decided to eat the free lunch offered by our airline. Looking at the menu, I chose the one with rice in it, as I'm not sure if I could still eat rice when I get to Europe.

After eating, we got ourselves ready for boarding. I never thought traveling outside the country would entail a rigorous process.

On our way, a mean immigration officer met us.

Before it was my turn, I was warned by the person before me to be nice to the old lady as she might been having a bad-hair day. So when I faced her, I gave her my passport and boarding pass. She looked at me with her scary eyes and with a scary tone she said: "Tanggalin ang bonnet, tanggalin and shades!" (Remove your bonnet, remove your glasses!)

Off to Singapore :)

I guess we all had our scary encounter with that old lady, but yeah, we won't let her screw our enthusiasm and excitement! We rode our plane from Cebu to Singapore.

After 3 hours in the plane, we arrived in Changi Airport in Singapore and it was one of the most beautiful airports I have ever seen.

We were all excited to get off the plane and we were given 2 hours to roam around before our flight for Amsterdam departs from that airport. So we went around and discovered a lot of great stuff in the airport. It made me want to go to Singapore!

At Changi Airport

Got into a Skytrain for the first time

With the rest of the delegation

After two hours of walking around, we then got ourselves ready for the plane we'll be riding to go to Amsterdam: SINGAPORE AIRLINES!

Off to Amsterdam!

It was my first time riding that kind of plane and hopefully after this trip, I could still ride on one. Everything was set up. We had pillows, blankets, headsets and our personal mini-TV to entertain us. I watched Sherlock Holmes 2, New Year's Eve, Carnage, Smash and of course, GLEE before I fell asleep, listening to Adele's music. Yes, a few hours from now, I will finally set foot on European soil!

Tomorrow, I will conquer Amsterdam! Zzzzzzzz.