Hi everyone, its Midi, I’m here on the airplane on my way back to Beijing. For the past five days I was in Chengdu, my mom’s hometown. I am excited to tell you about my trip.

Before I tell you about Chengdu there’s a story I really have to tell. Ok so, this morning we (me, my mom, and my sister) left the hotel at 9:45 because our flight was supposed to be at 11:30.  We got to the airport at 10: 20 and all the lights were out, all the screens were blank, and the escalators stopped. We walked up to the people at the security check in and asked them what was going on and they said there was a power outage, never heard that one before. My mom laughed and said, I think this is the first time an airport has had a power outage since World War 2. We asked how long the power has been out and when it was going to go back on, and they said it’s been out for 10 minutes and, because this was the first power outage they’d had, they had no clue. We decided to wait, but after half an hour we got thirsty so my mom sent me to go get some water, I brought my camera too. I ran up the frozen escalator and bought some water. I looked over the second floor balcony and if you can imagine a thousand people or more laying, sitting, or leaning on suitcases, chairs, magazine stands, and the floor, you can imagine what I saw.  I just watched everything for a few minutes but then remembered what I was supposed to do, and then ran down the escalator and handed my mom and sister water. My mom was kind of annoyed by the situation and my sister was too, but I thought it was cool I mean I don’t think this kind of thing will happen to me again any time soon. I decided to make the best of it so I ran up and down the escalator like 10 times and then took some pictures (I’ll try to post them) and then went back to where my mom was waiting. It was 12: 20 and it was really hot, no air conditioning, no cold water, no ice, no bathrooms, and we’d been waiting in the airport for 2 hours. We decided to go have lunch, so we left the airport and had Mexican food, haha our last meal in Chengdu was Mexican. After lunch we went to check if the airport had power yet, it was 2:30, no power so we went to a tea house next to the airport, there was no power there either, we realized that when the power turned on at the tea house it would turn on at the airport. There was a Ma Jiang set and neither me, my mom or sister could play Ma Jiang so I came up with a game using the pieces. Finally after 45 minutes the power turned on and we went back to the airport. We went in and there were thousands and thousands of people in lines waiting to get on an airplane. After checking in and doing all that boring airport stuff, we got on the airplane and I realized I lost my purse. I had my ipod, phone, and money in there.  My mom called the restaurant and they said it wasn’t there. I was sure I left it there, so my mom called her friend who lived next to the restaurant and asked her to check. She went over and it was there so when her sister is coming to Beijing in a few days she is going to bring it with her. What a relief. Oh ya, and then while we were waiting for the other passengers to board, another power outage! Haha, lucky for us the everyone got onto the plane but we still had to get disconnected to the sky bridge so people pushed the sky bridge away and we went up into the sky. Oh and my mom got a bunch of mosquito bites one second let me count… 32! Now let me tell you a little bit about my trip

While I was there I got to go to a cartoon studio for the cartoon that I am writing the theme song for. It was so cool. There were characters all over the walls and every thing was colorful. After a long meeting, I got to look around the studio. One of the artists was telling me the process of making a cartoon: First you have to draw it on a computer pad, then you have to add color, then you have to make a virtual model. It sounded like fun so I asked if I could make one, he said sure and he took me over to a computer with a big computer drawing pad and a computer pen. He showed me the different controls like making the lines bigger or smaller and adding color, and then I started making my character. (I’ll try to attach it to my blog).

I’d love to tell you more my trip but we’re landing soon. I’ll tell you more soon. Midi

                                               （midi  写于2009年8月11日 成都至北京的飞机上)

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