日本旅 Spirited Away in Japan Episode 0

前情提要
畢業了  要去日本了

先補充一些小事項

這趟旅程我總共帶了1件小行李箱加上背包一起1個側背背包. 總共換了10萬日幣. 4萬是要付給考古用的. 其他也沒特別帶什麼東西比較特殊大概就是白色Audio Technica的耳機和我的DS, 喔我還有帶我的電腦. 沒帶手機因為不想付漫遊. 我已經在日本樂天旅遊網都已經事先訂好了旅館我以後會在做介紹. 離開溫哥華前我也跟其他會再同時間會到的考古隊員約好在稚內機場碰面.

好, 故事再開

在抵達機場前, 傳了幾封簡訊給新*小姐而他也鼓勵和祝福我也希望我一切平安.  跟媽媽和妹妹說在見了後我獨自走進了航廈.

找到我登機口時大概離Air Canada起飛時間還有2個小時左右. 當時沒看到飛機不過想說方正等一下就會開來了. 1個小時後, 沒來. 15分後, 還是沒來. 30分後, 飛機到底在哪裡啊? 其他乘客也開始在說這班是不可能準時到了. 我開始變得很緊張. 為甚麼呢? 預定起飛時間是7:25pm, 10:10pm到LA再等到1:10am起飛到東京. 我也只有約2小時的時間可以當緩衝用. 在我在想這些的同時, Air Canada終於正式廣播目前的狀況.

"Sorry to cause all the inconvenience but the flight will be delayed for an hour."

謝謝你. 謝謝你跟我說航次會被delay. 我在7:25的時候從我沒有在飛機上這件事來看, 我就知道會delay.

1小時後....飛機還是不見蹤影. 已經很多人開始開罵. 當時我聽到Air Canada人員說他們根本不知道飛機在哪裡而且還說因為是飛機維修的季節所以調不到其他飛機. 我跑去問說因為我還得轉機假如我沒辦法登機的話該怎麼辦?

他們很冷莫的回說: 我們會幫你找好旅館.

*%&)*&^%$ 我在稚內的旅館都訂好了 我沒到你要怎麼賠我? 你們調不到飛機干我屁事? 我是客人. 我買了這個時間的航次就是為了要準時的起飛到達到目的地. 爛Air Canada. 爛.

最後搞到將近10點才登機. 飛到LA要3個小時...那不就代表我要一點才會到嗎? 我怎麼可能有時間從LAX的國內航廈趕到國際航廈?

帶著無可奈何的心情, 飛機也終於了抵達LA.

一下飛機. 我就開始用跑的了. 我到時已經12:45分了. 我跑到國際航廈時剛好聽到廣播我ANA飛羽田的航次的Final Boarding Call. 剛好旁邊有工作人員在我附近於是我跟他說我要搭剛才廣播的班機. 他馬上讓我做他的小車帶我"飆"到登機口(還是由過安全檢查就是了. 美國對這個真的是很嚴格的).

我也在千鈞一髮之際的順利趕上. 我發現我是最後一個登上飛機的人而且大家都在瞪著我.... 真的, 真的不是我的錯. 要怪就去怪 Air Canada吧. 各位, 對不起 >__<

我坐下時突然想到.....我的行李應該上飛機了吧? 轉機時他們載行李是用車開到另外一班飛機, 所以說就一定是在我還在做安檢時就已經到了.....吧?

旁邊坐的是一個要在東京轉機到海南島的美國人. 記得他說他要去哪裡參加他兒子的婚禮. 跟他聊天中, 飛機也起飛了. 我也終於正式的飛往日本了.


可是在日本等著我的卻不是漂亮美眉, 也不是美食, 更不是鋼彈或皮卡丘 而是一個舉著我名字的ANA人員.



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Previously on Spirited Away in Japan.
I graduated! Time to go to Japan!

I missed a few things in the previous post that I should had mentioned.

For this trip, I brought a small suitcase along with a regular backpack and a Star Wars side bag. I brought $10,000 Yen with $40,000 going into the fieldwork. I did not bring anything special maybe except for my Audio Technica headphones, DS, and my computer. I did not bother to bring my phone because I was not going to make phone calls anyway. I had already booked hotels/hostels about few days before the I left for the airport through Rakuten which I will expand it on later. Some of us from the fieldwork decided to meet up at the Wakkanai Airport on the 28th, so we would not had to be loners~

Back to the story.

I said goodbye to my mom and sister and walked into the terminal and officially began my trip.

 I had about 2hours to kill until my Air Canada flight takes off at 7:25 but when I got there, I did not see the plane. I was not worried since there was still some time until the takeoff but I was getting worried when plan still had not showed up at 6:25. 15mins after, no sign of the plane. 30mins later, ya no plane. At 7:30, Air Canada finally made an announcement apologizing and said they would get the plane up and running in an hour. An hour later, still no sigh of any planes. 

I overheard the Air Canada staff said to someone saying they had no idea where the plane was and could not get any spare plane because it was "maintenance season."

F*** U Air Canada! F*** U. I did not pay for a delayed flight. I expected my flight to be on time and not delayed. I don't care about you not being able to get another plane, that's not my problem. Air Canada...you suck. I do not know why you wanted more money since your service f***ing sucks balls.

I asked the staff about my situation since I needed to transfer at LAX . 

They just replied saying, "we will take care of you."

WTF? 

It was not until about 10 o'clock that the the plane finally took off. I was still so worried about my situation since originally, I was going to arrive at LAX at 10:15 with my ANA flight to Tokyo departing at 1. The flight to LAX would take 3 hours and that would only give me about 10 minutes to get from the domestic to the international terminal and I was beginning to really think that I would not be able to make it.

Finally, the plane arrived in LA at around 12:45am.

I ran. I ran like it was the end of the world. I managed to get to the international terminal and just my luck, the broadcast was on for the final boarding call of my Tokyo flight. I saw an airport staff and told him I needed to get to the flight that just had its final boarding call. He let me on his cart thing and drove me to the boarding gate. 

I was able to make it on to the plane and I realized I was the last person to get on. Everyone was staring at me.....like with angry eyes. It was not my fault...blame Air Canada!!!


When I sat down, I suddenly remembered about my luggage. Since I was transferring a flight then that means that my luggage was probably driven to the ANA flight by a car. (Like the one from Toy Story 2.) Obviously, car is faster than my running so my luggage probably got onto the plane when I was going through the security check.....probably.


I sat down beside an American who was going to transfer at Haneda to Hainan Island for his son's wedding. I had nice time chatting with him and just like that, the plane took off to Tokyo.


At that time, I had no idea what was waiting for me in Tokyo. It was not pretty girls. Not awesome food. Not Gundam or Pikachu but an ANA staff with my name on a board.


To be Continued...