Saturday, August 21, 2010

The First Thing Done

Guess what the first thing I did when I walked into China was? Try to pack all our stuff into a Taxi? Eat Chinese food? Saying "Hi" to old friends? Nope. The first thing did was lose my passport in a washroom. We just crossed Immigration and I had to go to the washroom. We were in a hurry to get to the hotel, so I put my passport down on the back of the toilet seat. On the way out, I forgot it there. It wasn't until we got to the hotel that was about an hour and a half by subway and express train that we found out that I had left my passport at the airport. When we got there, they asked to see our passports before we were aloud to check in. And I didn't really want to tell my parents that I left my passport in the bathroom, but I had to eventually. So when they found out, they got angry, but not as angry as I thought they would be. My mom and one of the other teachers had to go back to the airport anyway to pick some people up. I was really worried that they wouldn't find my passport, but they did. My mom said it couldn't have been easier if they would have handed it to them when they walked in. They just went to the lost and found, told them my name, age, birth date, and the looked in their desk, pulled out a passport, and asked,"Is this it?" At first they wanted me to go sign for it, but my mom convinced them that I didn't need to. (And I was jet lagged so I wouldn't have felt like going anyway) But I'm glad that it turned out that way, or else I would be a outlaw now:)

1 comment:

  1. Oh Claire. :) That's the kind of thing that I would do except that I've gotten so paranoid about doing that sort of thing over the years that I've developed all these little checklists in my head so that I don't do that. I'm extra paranoid about my passport now because last year I FORGOT TO RENEW it and had to race around like a mad woman to get it renewed on the day that I was flying to Honduras!! In February of this year, I lost my wallet in Mexico but it had my Driver's License in it and someone from California found it on the road (in Mexico) and mailed it back to me. Yup.

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