Departure for China!

Hi everybody!

After a long discussion with myself, I decided to write my blog in English, so that also all my foreign friends and family can read about my trip to China.

Now there are only a few hours left until departure; The airplane will leave at 18:05, so I have get ready very soon to take the train to Schiphol. We will fly directly with KLM from Schiphol to Chengdu in an Airbus A330-200. With all my bags ready, I will now only have to think of making some sandwiches :P

Yesterday me, Jennifer and Tim worked hard to get 8! boxes of materials ready for China. Jennifer had arranged a lot of sports clothes and some balls from the Sportscenter from the TU Delft and Tim arranged 550 bags from the Erasmus university, which can be used as shoolbags.
Of course we couldn't take all the stuff in our bags, so most of it we stuffed it in boxes and they will be shipped by regular mail to Chengdu. We are lucky enough that by using AEGEE-Delft (The student association of which I am now the president) we were able to send all this stuff for free. Nothing is free in this world, o the university will pay the mailing costs, not us ;)

With about half of my backpack filled with presents for the kids in China, I had to put my bag on a weighting scale, and luckely it stayed within the 20 kilograms maximum weigth limit for checking in.
Now I have to get the last things ready, so...
...enjoy my further blog messages from China!!!