Flight Home

Kanashima had booked us a taxi yesterday and it was delightfully there at 6am. Lauma, Drummond, and I headed off towards the airport after Fujita-san saw us off. The taxi driver took us to the international terminal, instead of the domestic one since Drum's and my flight was earlier than Lauma's. We left Lauma at the airport with a four hour wait and drove off to find our terminal.

I only found out the other day that I was going to be flying with Drummond: a nice surprise since flights can be tedious at the best of times. Always good to have someone around to share the boredom.

We sat next to a guy called Junya who was visiting England and Spain over the next couple of weeks. He is staying with some Japanese friends that live in London. We exchanged email addresses and merrilly quizzed about how to say things in Japanese!

It was one of my best 12 hour flights ever, as I managed to pass the time most adequately with long doses. Only once towards the end of the flight was I bored enough to play with the computer games, though I wasn't in the mood for learning how to play Shogi. I watched "The Wedding Crashers" and "Abudeka". The former was rather amusing, even for an Owen Wilson film, though extremely random in parts. The latter is the 6th installment in a popular TV series of the same name. It is a action-comedy about two cops and was a little strange in places, though very enjoyable to watch.

We landed on time, if not a few minutes early. My dad picked me up from the airport, and we said goodbye to Drum who had to catch yet another plane up to Edinburgh.