slept late because my sisters & i along with kuya jun & kyle all slept in mom's bedroom. everyone was so excited about my trip and we had our last minute bonding =). woke up at 6am, left the house at around 8am and we arrived at naia at around 10am. hannah, mark, sam, noemi, jerry & jan came to send me of as well.
went to check in my luggage at 10:30am. since my flight was at 12:20, i was thinking that i still had a lot of time right? as i approached the check in counter for jetstar, 2 people from the airport authority (im not sure what they're called actually) asked me if i was an ofw or a tourist. when i said tourist, they asked me for my ticket and told me that i needed to pay P1620 for travel tax. i asked if it already included the P750 terminal fee & they said no. huwaaaaaaat!? so i immediately texted my mom to go back because i only had P1000 for the terminal fee.
lesson #1: whenever you book jetstar tickets online, you would have to pay the travel tax in cash at the airport. so check first if it would be cheaper if you purchase ur tickets from booking offices.
it took a while for my mom to come back so by the time that i checked in it was already 11am. after i got my boarding pass i went straight to immigration wherein of course there were long lines =). so i waited for almost 1 hour. according to my boarding pass, the gate (G1) will close at 12:00. however by 11:50 my boarding gate was already flashed as closed on the tv monitor. so i panicked. i texted my mom and sked her if it was fine, and she said that once u have a boardng pass it should be okay. so calmed down a little. by 12:00 there was still another person in line before it was my turn. he was a caucasian who really looked nice, or maybe i just thought he looked nice because he looked like samwise gamgee =). too scared of missing the flight, i asked him if he could let me go first since my boarding gate was about to close. he was kind enough to let me go first.
lesson#2: go to the check in counter earlier than 2 hours before the flight because you'll never know what may happen.
at the pre-departure area i still had about 5 mins to rest and calm my nerves because they were boarding rows 1- 20 and i was assigned seat 9B. so i texted my mom that i was fine and that they could go back home. once on the plane i took a nap, woke up when the food was offered. i ate fish lenguini & water for S$13. unfortunately no free food is served in jetstar flights. after eating i took a nap again and when i woke up we were about to land.
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