日本遊Spirited Away in Japan Episode 1

前情提要
因為Air Canada delay的關係害我差點無法趕上在LA的班機

故事再開

經過12個小時漫長的旅程, 飛機終於抵達了東京羽田機場.  如果我沒記錯的話ANA早餐有附Hagen Daz 冰淇淋喔~ 雖然吃起來硬梆梆的....

當我下飛機時, 迎接我的就是日出的曙光(不愧是日本). 就這樣帶著不錯的心情去領行李只不過..... 


我看到一位拿著寫著我的名字的ANA人員在大廳內走來走去. 我跟他說我就是Steven Sung. 他跟我說我的行李還在LA. 我聽到簡直要吐血了. 怎麼會這樣..... 我的換洗衣服都在裡面....我的電腦也在那裏..... 我大部分的錢也在裡面. 完了. 真的完了.

我被帶到ANA櫃台去想辦法該怎麼辦才好. 結論是ANA會大概一個禮拜後把我的行李寄到禮文島. 雖然無奈可是只好接受這個事實. 可惡的Air Canada, 都是你們害的. ANA一直在跟我道歉我只好回說要道歉的人應該是Air Canada.

Haneda Airport/羽田機場

沒辦法, 我也只好先去辦日本國內轉機程序. 我要從羽田飛到稚內, 一趟大概2,3個小時左右. 我在排隊時我聽到後面有人再說英文而且是關於稚內的事. 我轉過頭問說他們是要禮文島做考古嗎? 沒想到, 他們兩個真的是要去禮文島也就是說他們就是我要在稚內機場碰面的人.

其中一位是韓裔美國女生叫Seung-wan Choi. 他比我印象中的韓國人還黑......滿多的. 另外一位叫Deidre Whitmore. 是位有點帶捲紅頭髮的女生. 他們都是UCLA的學生而Deidre跟我一樣在不久前畢業了Seung-wan還在努力中.

我們一起搭了轉機必須要坐的接駁車不過在那前我照了羽田機場的廁所. 為甚麼要照廁所? 大家自己看吧.好高科技/複雜的廁所... 有點慶辛我當時沒有去上, 我可能還不會用 哈哈哈.

高科技廁所/High Tech Washroom

抵達另外的航廈是我們找了地方坐了下來. 很巧的是, 旁邊坐的也是會說英文的人. 更巧的是,他們也是要去禮文島的人.

兩位都是女生. 一位叫Erin Bird. 他那時是已經快要畢業的4年級生. 他就讀的學校是在波特蘭的Oregon State University. 另外一位則是念主辦學校UofA的Ingrid Hofer.

雖然才剛認識他們不過我已經對他們有些看法了.
Seung-wan- 典型美國人. 很大聲. 沒事就要加F***在字前面. 不過是一個很活潑的女生. 當時就覺得以後他應該會是一個很有趣的人.
Deidre- 穩重, 很有禮貌. 講話輕輕的. 就是Seung-wan的相反就對了
Erin- 跟我一樣是北美西北部來的所以我們一開始就有話題可以聊(聊我們住的地方老是在下雨).
Ingrid- 很多話而且有一點點自我為是.

我覺得大家都差好多喔可是就是這樣才好玩嘛. 而且....大家都是考古學生!!!!


續


Previously.....
Air Canada f8cked me over. I barely made it to the flight to Tokyo.

Back to the story.

After 12 hours of long flight, I had finally arrived in Tokyo. The meals on the plane were pretty good. ANA gave us Hagen Daz ice cream as part of our breakfast! even though it was freakin' hard....


The first thing I saw after getting off from the plane was dawn. It was quite a sight especially after what I just went through. So, after checking out at the custom I went to get my luggage.

Dawn/日出

There, I saw an ANA staff holding a sign that has my name on it. I said to myself, "sh*t....oh f*ck." I went up to him and told him I was the person he was looking for. He then told me that my luggage was still in LA. F*ck. My clothes were in there. My computer. Most of my money were in there.

He took me to the ANA counter and to sort the problem out. In the end, we decided to have ANA sent my luggage to Rebun but that would take at least a week to arrive. Since I was out of any other options, so I had to agree. Damn Air Canada. I hate you. I hate you bunch of fat cats. I hate you with all my heart. F*ck you Air Canada.

BUT.....since I could not do anything about that so I had to continue with yet another flight transfer. I lined up at the ANA domestic transfer desk then I overheard someone talking about Wakkanai in English....like really loud. I turned around and saw two girls and I asked them if they were part of the archaeology team. They said yes and turned out they were part of the people meeting up at Wakkanai Airport. The two girl both came from LA but on a different flight as me and they both went/goes to UCLA.

Seung-wan Choi- A Korean-American girl. Typical American. Loud. Needs to add the f word every few sentence.
Deidre Whitmore- Also American. The opposite of Seung-wan. She had already graduated from UCLA recently, probably around the same time as me.

We went to the shuttle bus to the domestic terminal but before that, we saw Haneda's washroom. It was so futuristic! There were so many shining things!

We arrived at the domestic terminal and sat down and just our luck, 2 girls who were sitting there already also spoke English. What was more surprising was that they were part of the team too!

I met Erin and Ingrid here....I think/應該是我遇見Erin跟Ingrid 的地方

Erin Bird- Like me, she is from the Pacific Northwest. She was going to Portland State University and was going to graduate soon.
Ingrid Hofer- A bit younger than the rest of us and she goes to the sponsoring school, UofA.

Even though I had just met them. I already had some own personal opinions on these guys.

Seung-wan- LOUD like really really loud but she seems to be the fun one. I always like people who are loud anyway rather than silent emo types and it's not like I don't say f words anyway.
Deidre- She seems very smart and knows a lot of things.
Erin- She's from the Pacific Northwest so naturally I can talk to her about some common thing that we know of. AKA RAIN.
Ingrid- She talks a lot. Sometimes a little too much.

Everyone had their own personalities and I thought that was what would make this trip fun. Meeting all sorts of people! Best of all, everyone studies(d) ARCHAEOLOGY! unlike my regular friends back in Vancouver. "Oh why are you studying archaeology?" "Are you trying to be like Indiana Jones?"






To be Continued...