My family and I work up at 3:00 a.m., and left for the airport at 4:00 a.m. They gave me a ride to the airport. It is usually the opposite. I give my husband a ride to the airport for his business trip. This time is the other way around.
I took two flights; one domestic flight and one international flight. Both flights were almost empty. I could comfortably use the vacant seats all to myself.
While waiting for the international flight at the gate, the workers kept calling a passenger. His name was “Michael Jackson.” His name was called more than five or six times. I guess everybody thought exactly same as I did. “He’d better hurry up and go see the worker now.”
The flight from America to Japan is always tough as the airplane proceeds against the wind. It takes longer than the opposite direction. From America to Japan, it takes 12.5 hours, but in opposite direction of from Japan to America, it takes 9.5 hours.
In the international flight, I watched three Japanese movies.
First movie: コンフィデンスマン. It was a comedy movie of fraud group. It was a funny movie and I laughed a lot.
Second movie: 今日も嫌がらせ弁当. It was a movie of a mother and a teenage daughter. This movie made me cry because it talks about the relationship of a mother and a daughter. It was a pretty good movie, and I liked it very much.
Third movie: 町田君の世界. The main character is a boy who is a high school student. His pure and kind actions stimulated the people around him into a nicer and kinder way. I liked this movie too.
I enjoyed watching these movies, but from time to time, my conscious traveled around here and there, thinking about this trip to Japan. I cried from time to time in the airplane.
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