Transfer in Amsterdam airport

After a long journey, we arrived in Amsterdam airport.  The flight was delayed, which means we had less time to find where we needed to be for our transfer flight to Leeds-Bradford.

And that’s us, four Taiwanese girls, with heavy (hand-)luggage, staring at the big screen with the flight details, nervously trying to find which gate to go, well, RUN.

Nearly there, we said to each other, when we rushed to the transfer gate. The airport seems so huge and long and busy, and we had to fight to pass through people.   We got to the gate a minute before the last boarding announcement was broadcast, and we were all very sweaty indeed!! 

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Where it starts...

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So, here I am, waving goodbye to my family in the airport. 

This is not the first time I travel on my own to a unfamiliar country. So, it’s not a big deal really.

And, technically, I am not 'on my own' as I am with Elaine, Tracy and Fiona who will be my classmates of this coming year and who I have met once just few weeks ago.  Apart from each other’s name and what the course they will be studying next year, I know nothing about them. And yet, we arranged to book on the same flight to Bradford as it is safer to travel together since we are just four young girls.

I am quite nervous and excited about the journey, to be honest. It’s going to be a new start, and it will be great. I will be a different person once I finish my MBA course in a year time.  I will have a masters, speak fluent English, meet new friends and I will get a better job. 

Yes, it is going to be great.