The Wait

So, yesterday, I went out to.. KARAOKE! Haha, it was extremely fun, we had about fourteen people in our room. I picked out the song “A Whole New World” and got everyone to sing a long, getting into the karaoke-ing mood. We only had the room for about an hour, and after that, we had to split the costs. It was about.. nine dollars each person, but some people were retarded and didn’t have exact change, which made it really confusing.. Okay, well, anyways, after that, I went to buy my host sister, who’s eight a hello kitty cup. YFU totally screwed up my host family info. My host sister is eight and my host brother is like.. eleven months old. Well, anyways, after I bought her the cup, I went back to the hotel room and started wrapping the gifts for my family.

I packed everything and headed to bed at around eleven o’clock. At about three-thirty, I woke up and noticed the sky getting lighter. The sun was rising! But, oh no, where was Karen, my roommate? All the lights in the room were still on because I had left them on hoping that Karen would come back to turn them off, but I woke up around three and apparently, her sheets were untouched and she hadn’t returned to our room. I stayed up till about five because I couldn’t go back to sleep. Well, after I fell.. kind of asleep, I woke up at six because of the alarm and turned it off, going back to sleep. I woke up around.. seven.. nine? And then rushed to the bathroom, to get ready to eat. The meeting time was at eight, and I didn’t want to be late!

Headed downstairs and went to eat at Jyurin, the coffee shop downstairs, and then I went back up. Apparently, the meeting time was eight fourty-five.. and so I had about.. well, nothing to do for about an hour. Ugh. How boring. After that, we all met downstairs, and I checked out, turning my key card back in. I sat down.. and realized I had left my toothbrush and my toothpaste back in the room! Oh no! BUT, luckily, Karen hadn’t come down yet¸ meaning she had not checked out yet. I caught her while she was adding her luggage to the pile of Blue tags.

I raced upstairs, grabbed my toothpaste and toothbrush and double checked our room and then headed back downstairs. The guy with an Australian accent seemed really stressed, and it was all really chaotic. After we got everything sorted out, we headed onto the bus towards Haneda airport. Got off at Haneda airport and we were in the airport getting our boarding passes etc. Karen and I were heading to Miyakojima, so we weren’t going to be alone. The YFU Japan staff who was helping us get to our flights was so adorable! I got a picture of her. I swear, she’s so freaking cute, she’s what you expect of a Japanese girl. XD

Anyways, after that, me and Karen boarded our plane with little to no trouble at all, and we were headed to Naha after take-off. The plane ride was.. boring. It was going to be two hours long, and god, did those two hours stretch.. and stretch. During this time, I just kept thinking about my host family and what they would look like, and how I would greet them. And then.. me and Karen find out the plane won’t land until 2:50.. our freaking plane to Miyakojima departs at 2:55. It made me really impatient, because the plane experienced so much turbulence in the last twenty minutes of the flight.. We landed at 2:55, but by that time the plane had already departed. Ugh. That sucks. We just missed our stupid flight.

So, we went to the baggage area and we talked to the people.. with some confusing looks, and some very poorly spoken Japanese on our part, and some English on ANA’s staff’s part, we were scheduled on the next flight to Miyakojima.. which isn’t going to depart until 5:45. Imagine that. God, so, after we found that out, we had to call our Area Representative and tell them our flight was moved to a later time, so that they could contact our host family.

And now, I just found out that our flight would be delayed, and we’re actually departing at 6:05 now. Ahhhgg, I hate this guys. I really do. But by the time I put this up, I’d probably be at my host family’s house. So, me and Karen are tired, sleepy, hungry but have no appetites.. and I have a piercing headache. I hope we can get to our host families house soon because I feel really sick. Alright, this is just really frustrating and I just needed to vent. :< I’ll talk to everyone later probably. Bye~