I made it!...to Tokyo. After getting up at 6:45 in the morning, leaving for the airport at 8, getting to the gate at 10, boarding at 12, and sitting on the plane for 13 hours, I have arrived at Narita Airport in Tokyo. I met up with Adriel, the other UD student studying at Seinan Gakuin University and we've got another half hour until we board our plane. From there its a two hour flight to Fukuoka and then we'll be picked up and taken to the International House where we'll be living for the next nine months.
The flight wasn't too bad as far as 13 hour flights go. The plane was nine seats across grouped in threes in the section that I was in, and I got an aisle seat in the middle section. Nobody had the seat next to me so I put my backpack there and freed up some leg room. There were a slew of movies available to watch on demand. I settled on Iron Man 2 and The Transporter, which ate up about a quarter of the flight. The food is about as good as food on an airplane gets, and the complementary beer was much appreciated (I went for a Sapporo). It was definitely a relief to get off the plane, even if just to sit in an airport for two hours before getting on another one.
Japan is 13 hours ahead of US Eastern Time, so while it's 4:15am there, it's 5:15pm here for me. For those of you that have Skype, my username is brian.minch so add me and we can talk there. Feel free to leave comments for all to see on this blog or send me an email if you want to talk privately. I'll make another update when I'm in Fukuoka and have internet access again.
I lucked out with my flight too. I was on one of those planes and had an entire row to myself. Except I didn't get beer, or good movies, so you win.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Japanese airlines treat you really well. If you come visit me and take a Japanese plane back to America you'll get to see for yourself!
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