I took a plane from Denver to Vancouver, and from there to the Narita Airport in Japan. It was a long flight from Vancouver to Narita... and many Japanese people who were returning home surrounded me on the plane. Basically, everyone on the plane was Japanese. The experience would have gone by quicker had the TV screen worked, but they were having technical difficulties. Only like half the screens on the plane worked... luckily, I brought a couple books in my carry on. I quickly devoured the books and found myself being tortured as I saw a little Japanese girl somewhere in front of me watching the movie Avatar. I pulled out my laptop to start working on writing my book some more, but found myself getting a headache soon after and put my laptop away.
I was somewhat entertained by the Japanese lady sitting next to me and her two kids who were in the seats in front of us. She had ordered some wine in a bottle from the flight attendants passing by and she drank all but a fourth of it. Her son, who i'm guessing was about 5, would wait till she was looking a way and then reach between the crack between his seat and his sisters seat to grab the unattended wine sitting on his mom's tray. I would sort of laugh, and the mom would catch him before he got a sip.
I was met at the airport by the YWAM staff holding up a sign with my name on it. I met all the other fellow students at the airport as well. Their names are: Cody, Jerome, Pete, Min joo, and Sharayah. The staff members: Ryan, Chloe, Hege, Kyle, Brandon, Derrik, and Olivier.
Anyway.... Ryan, Olivier, and Chloe were the ones who picked us up and they were are guides as we headed to the YWAM house in the Meguro district of Tokyo. It was raining, and I was wearing shorts, yay...
We stacked our luggage in the back of a van to be transported to the house, and we ourselves headed toward the train. By the way, train is the number one source of travel in Tokyo. Cars are very expensive to buy and to pay for gas or parking so most people just walk and take the train. Its an everyday thing, buying train fare is so common I would compare it to filling up at a gas station back in America. People use the trains to get to and from school, to and from work Tokyo is such a big city, it could probably fit 5 Denvers in it. 34-37 million people live in Tokyo... thats like the entire population of California fitting into one city. Traveling by train from Narita station to the Senzoku station in Meguro took a couple hours.
When we arrived at the house and met the rest of the Staff, and our leader "David McDaniel." He's like a giant teddy bear, and he has a long curly goatee. He is a very funny guy, I think I'm gonna like him.
Wearing shorts.. yay.
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