Day One - London, Heathrow Airport

We touchdown at London at 6.15pm local time. The 12 hours flight took its final toll, everyone was really excited when the MAS steward announced the welcome announcement! Being the first cheerleading team to go aboard was a great feeling. I was proud of the feat.

At the check point, we had no trouble with all the passports. My first instant glance of the airport, I never thought I was in London or somewhere in Europe because most of the people were Asians (either tourists or workers at the airport). Even the lady who checked our passports was an Asian! Weird.

We assembled at a lounge where all waiting passengers lepak. Saw a few taking a nap, some reading, and some just seating and doing nothing. We had to check our bus to Nottingham at the NationalExpress counter. And bought the last bus that leaves at 12.55am

We stayed at the lounge for nearly 4 hours, just waiting and kill time. The reason we took the last bus was because we wanted to reach at Nottingham as latest as possible as our booking for accommodation was to check in only the next morning.

We arrived Nottingham Broad Marsh station at 3.15am! Nobody was at the station, except for 1-2 people who just got out of the local pubs waiting for the bus. The good thing is that the public transport in UK is 24 hours. Not like here, Intrakota and Metro buses only rides til 12midnite. We waited for another hour and left at 4.30am. We were lucky as the bus conducter was really nice to stop us at a nearer place instead of walking very far with our luggages. The walk from the stop to our campus was only less than 5 minutes.

One problem though, the office receptionist only opens at 7.30am! So we were all locked out outside the office under the very very cold weather for the next 1 and half hour! Gila! Thank god they opened much earlier, and got us into a waiting room. Really nice people.