Santiago!

I’ve made it to Santiago!

Firstly, a big thanks to all who have given me your encouragements, gifts, prayers and your presence at the airport! I feel very loved! Gracias!

This is the first time that I have travelled so long and far. There were 4 stopovers. KL, Joburg, Cape Town and Buenos Aires. The stopover at Buenos Aires was quite nerve racking. We were supposed to do a transit to another Argentina flight and a direct transfer of our baggage to that flight. However when we went to the counter, the person told us to check out our baggage and check them in again. I was appalled. We are entitled to 2 baggage with 32 kg each with MAS but the
Argentina flight only allows 20kg! Which means that if we were to check out and in again, we will have to pay the 40kg excess baggage! We walked around the transist terminal, trying to get help from other people. One man tried to help but I doubt he knew what I was talking and at the end, he told us to check out too! Finally, we met another man who helped us arranged for the baggage transfer… phew!

Yes! We’ve arrived. The weather was cold but the team is warm. Cindy cooked fried rice for all of us and we went to bed after that. I was exhausted. I slept for 14 hours straight. Afterwhich we had dinner and prepared for CG! I managed to use my limited Spanish to converse with the people but the good thing is that some of them speak English. There were many first time visitors for CG! It was great knowing new people and experience a different Culture. One of the visitors, Junlio was quite enthu to teach me some Spanish words. Overall, it was a wonderful begining for me

Random pics taken in the CG
 

ok that’s all for now.. I’m going to sleep again :D