Friday, 17 August 2012

Narita

So not according to plan, I didn't write a blog. I was too busy, unfortunately. However, I have just arrived in Toronto and luckily for me my connection flight was delayed! :D So I had a little trouble at Narita airport. In waiting for my friend to come see me off, I ended up being horribly late for my flight. I started to cry and when I asked the airport employees what to do, they were very rude. I have established I don't like airport people. They are too cold. I want to feel nice when I fly haha. Anyway, I ended up having to ask this nice Japanese lady (who, honestly I thought was white because she had blonde hair but when she turned around... SURPRISE!) if I could go ahead of her and she said yes and was very sweet. I thanked her maybe 50 times. Anyway, I ran to my gate and got there for last boarding call. All sweaty and gross. Some cute boys were ahead of me and they looked back at me, hot mess that I was. And then one of them said (in Japanese) "Its a real foreigner!" to which I responded in Japanese "Are you talking about me?". He apologized and kept walking HAHA. So we boarded and I was seated next to these two lovely old ladies. We shared small talk and they wondered why I was good at speaking Japanese so I told them I had just finished an exchange. Conversation kind of stopped after that but we all were relived we weren't sitting next to someone horrible. They were really sweet. We ended up being stuck on the tarmac for 2 hours and 40 minutes due to radio problems. So those two sweet ladies and I all watched "Thermae Romae", a Japanese movie about Roman bathhouses. Its really funny. It was also the only Japanese thing on the whole in-flight entertainment. I had seen it earlier and thought of watching it but when I saw the ladies struggling with the English menus, I told them about it and we all watched together. It was great fun. We finally took off at around 8 o'clock. I basiclaly gave up any hope of catching my connecting flight but I'm not at the gate waiting haha.  So I basically just watched movies. I saw "Thermae Romae" and the heart-wrenching documentary "Bully". Oh god I cried so much. I then worked on my presentation, but didn't do much because I needed my SD card and I didn't want to go fishing in my luggage. I meant to sleep for just 2 hours but ended up sleeping five. I used a sheet mask on the plane for the first time. And I'm so glad I did. My skin has fared very well despite the condition it usually goes in when I fly. When it was about 2 hours before landing, I decided to look more thoroughly through the movies. I didn't realize they had such a great selection this time!!! They had "The Hunger Games", "The Avengers" and "The Lorax"! I started to watch the Lorax but didn't get to finish. I wish I knew they were there when I 2 hours into the flight. Oh well. So, as we landed in Toronto the ladies and I talked some more, like about where I had been in Japan and what I was going to do in university. I also asked them where they were going and they said Niagara and later in the week going to Prince Edward Island. I want to do that too!! I tried my best to get through security, customs, baggage claim and baggage drop off as I could, and here I am. My plane should take off in about a half hour. So I'll post this now and then write about my last days when I get home. Wait for it!! :D

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