Including her brave encounters with: Aeroplane food, Drug runners, Chinese immigration officials, Taxi drivers, Squat Toilets, Beggars, Street sellers, Chinese currency, Fighting crickets, Acrobats, Market stall-holders, Chinese masseuses and various culinary delights, among other things.... Read on if you dare. The plane trip over to China on Thursday was pretty uneventful. I ate my meals (no problems at all - I love aeroplane food), tried unsuccessfully to sleep (even after only 3 hours' worth the night before) and watched some movies. For those Dale Kerrigans out there, I saw "Look Both Ways," "Must Love Dogs" and "Touching the Void," and "Must Love Dogs" was first. About halfway through the flight I started stressing, because I was carrying a bag of vitamins over for a Chinese friend of my parents', and when reading my booklet on China,
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