Plane, arrival + first couple of days part 1

Getting to the airport in Denmark, was actually quite easy, and though the train was late (as expected) we still had plenty of time in the airport. My aunt I was there to say goodbye to me too, since she lives in CPH it was easy for her, and really nice!

Both my parents went along to say goodbye, which I was very glad for, I'm missing them terribly already, so it was nice to have those few hours more, and not having to go there on my own. I had to say goodbye to my brother a few days before, 'cause he's in boarding-school and had to go there on sunday. I miss you too blue hair! Smølf :P

Just as we were getting off the train we met one of the other Danes going here. We had arranged to meet in the airport after check-in, but as we waited and dragged out the time, a bunch of the others came too, so we were almost all there before check-in. We couldn't get seats near each other though, but we figured that it wouldn't matter much. The two hours to Vienna we could survive, and for Beijing, we should sleep as much as we could to try and avoid jet-lag. We ended up sitting in clumps of two or three, as close to each other as the free seats would allow us.

Flying was horrible. Not the flight itself or the food, but because there wasn't enough space. I couldn't sit in a comfortable position, and weren't able to stretch even just a little to sleep. So I only got like 4 hours of sleep. The food wasn't bad, there just wasn't enough of it, more food! XD
The young woman I was sitting beside was really nice, though she didn't speak much English, we made do with hand signs and mimicking when needed.
But as usual somebody had to be annoying, and the two young men behind us were. The one behind me couldn't sit still (prob had too little space too) and they spoke really loudly to each other. I managed to sleep a little but not much.

Arriving in the airport was amazing, a gigantic newly built airport (for the olympics most likely). We had to take the subway to the exit and our luggage. We actually didn't have to wait all that long for the luggage, but I missed it the first time it came around. Finding the exit wasn't hard. Neither was getting through security, one of the others had to wait for a long time while the attendant checked his passport and arrival card, but we all got through without problems in the end.

After we got our luggage, we went to the meeting point (near Starbucks in terminal 3 were we came out). One of the project coordinators stood there with a sign and took us to the others waiting in a nearby caffe(starbucks again I think). We had to wait around for 30-45 min I think. 'Cause we weren't the last flight they were picking up at that time.
In the end we were a mixed group from Denmark, England, Sweden and Norway piling into a bus with our luggage. Again tiny seats, I could just sit there, but A who's taller than me had troubles, and one of the english guys couldn't even sit down, he had to wait for everybody to sit first and then put his legs out in the middle space.

Driving through Beijing was a bit weird. I think it's clear it's winter, 'cause everything is grey. And you can see it's a big city, but I didn't think there were enourmous amount of people walking around, though that might be because it's the winter holidays and we're not quite in centrum.

Arriving at the University (UIBE) we had to give in our passports, so they can renew or visas. We were giving a bundle of keys and cards and a bag with misc. in it. And left to our own devices for the rest of the day, so we could unpack, get over jet-lag, explore the city etc.
I'm on the 5th floor, so I'm very happy I didn't bring more than 20 kg XD

There was a short campus tour but that got postponed to the next day 'cause we had to eat.