Narita Airport

We got up early to head off to Narita Airport, YSki was going to go back to the United States today. We took the shinkansen to Ueno station, and we were taking weird pictures of ourselves on the train. When we arrived we had to locate where the private line to the airport was. We had to leave the station building all together to get to the private line gate. The trip to Narita was 1000 yen.

When we got to the Sakura station area, the weirdest thing happened. We were getting pretty close to the airport and one of my friends and former classmate walked right into the train where I was sitting. I was like "I recognize her." She was in my chinese class at grossmont. It was the strangest thing. She was also going back to San Diego that day. We talked a little bit as we were going to the airport. I offered her my seat since most of the seats were already taken by then.

We got to the airport rather early so we stopped and talked a little more as we enjoyed our really tiny Starbucks Coffee. It was a weird experience I'd have to say. But we made an agreement that we would meet again with another one of my classmates and her friend to have dinner or something when she came back to Japan.

We went to the ticket gate area around 4pm, and we saw CNto and her family there. And then ATya arrived to see YSki off to San Diego. There were a lot of people from Grossmont there going back to San Diego. That was also very weird. We kinda just wasted a few hours just waiting for the airplane to board, but we all talked and exchanged gifts. It was sad that everyone was leaving Japan, and I'd be the only one left and I'd be staying here. As we were saying good bye, ATya noticed that there was someone crying to see her leave her boyfriend and she noticed that it was one of her friends too. I knew her too, but not like we were friends. Just someone I met at a party a long time ago. It was cool, from there ATya went home on a private line, and Since I was on the last day of my JR pass I took the JR Narita Express to get home. It was a nice pretty smooth ride back home too. It's not crowded at all, since it was pretty expensive to ride it in the first place. I was lucky enough to get that pass to ride on it, I probably would have never been able to otherwise.

I arrived to Ofuna station and then got ready for the 30 minute walk home with all my crap in my backpack. I made it and that was the end of my perfectly planned trip to explore everything in Japan. All in all, I must have saved at least a thousand dollars on travel expenses and hotel fees that I didn't have to pay because of my wonderful friends and their equally wonderful hospitality. I've met most of my friends families which is a rare experience. I've had all the food I could possibly eat. I really do feel lucky that I'm here and I get to experience all of this. Now the next step is getting ready for work and the life after that.

Song of the Moment: Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of your life)