Getting To China

Upon arriving at the train station I was happy to finally hear a language that I was familiar with and I’m not talking about English.  Hearing the passengers in the waiting room speak Chinese was truly a breath of fresh air and even the lady at the information booth was able to communicate in Chinese so I was no longer required to communicate through Google Translate and hand gestures. Yea!
I was in a soft sleeper cabin with two other guys returning to China so I was able to have someone to converse with before entering China.
The train left at 9PM and around 2AM we were woken up to disembark the train so we could get our passports checked.  I handed the guard me passport and was told to wait with all the other passengers while their passports were checked.  This part really worried me. Even though I had a visa to enter China, what if I wasn’t allowed to enter China by train?  Where would they send me?
After about a half an hour the guard began to call the names of various passengers that I guess had visa issues, or who knows..
Lucky my name wasn’t called.
Then the guard handed back everyones passports