18 hours in Beijing

After a lovely night’s sleep, a couple of great showers, and 2 espressos with cream HGirl was off and running. First stop was the Ministry of Health to meet with the Division Chief of the Patriotic Health Campaign Committee and the Senior Consultant of the Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention. The meeting went well.

After a North Indian/Pakistani buffet, HGirl went to the WHO’s regional office and met with some WHO folks and researches. This is where she gave her presentation. It went pretty well.

At this point, HGirl hit a wall. She was SO tired. But she had to go back to the airport to catch a flight to Shanghai. Think there was travel drama? Who are you talking too? Of course there was. This time it was minor: approximately 1 hour delay.

HGirl fell asleep on the plane. About ½ way thru, she was awoken by snoring. She glanced around and realized she couldn’t tell if it was her or someone else.

Upon landing at 11pm, HGirl and the rest of the WHO team piled in a van and drove two hours to Suzhou. HGirl was starving as she only had espresso, lunch and a smoothy-type drink that was mostly water. She was planning on room service at the hotel, but no such luck. Ah well, at least there was bottled water in the room.