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[04 Apr 2008|09:52am] |
April 4th 2008
My morning in San Francisco was unexciting. Contiental breakfast at the hotel, a beautiful walk on a lovely sunny california morning, and then it was time to get ready and go.
I re-organized my luggage a little, so the large suitcase was no longer top heavy and inclined to tip over, and i got some duct tape from the front desk, fixing the broken handle, so I could actually pull the thing along.
In fact, with those improvements i felt almost cheerful.
The shuttle arrived a few minutes late to take me to the airport, but teh driver was nice, and took me to the exact place i needed to be!
San Francisco airport is quite large, and so I was quite worried that I would have trouble finding where i needed to go, but no problems, and i was done and through security in about 20 minutes.
So i was left with more than an hour before my flight was supposed to even start boarding.
I changed some money to Yen, and found this really cool vending machine that sells electronics, like Psp's and battlefront 2 (the game), it was like the neatest most high tech vending machine ever!
I found a comfortable spot to sit in front of my gate (which was really easy to find :) )
and plugged my computer into a socket (I remembered to put the power cord into my carry on luggage this time!!!!), and watched Mad money ( a terrible movie) until it was time to board.
The flight from san francisco to Osaka, Japan, is about 12 hours (not including the hour ou spending sitting on the plane before boarding and taxing through the airport and such.... all in all it ends u being over 13 on the plane itself.)
My seat was the middle of the middle. The worst seat of all, right in the middle of four other seats.
But luckily, very luckily, the seats on either side of me are empty! So I end up with tons of space.
At each end, there is some one sitting, a man on one side, and a japanese woman on the other.
The Man looks like a proffessor.
We chat during the long wait for the plane ot take off, He is an English teacher in Osaka, teaches at a private school. he's been teaching there for 20 years!
He offers me lots of advice on life in japan, and by the end of the flight we have exchange emails, in case i need anyhelp or advice while I'm over here!
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