Before we get to Japan, we must start with Nashville. We had to be at the airport by 4:30 AM and our flight took off at 7 AM. When I got the airport, it was about 4:15 AM and it was packed but the good thing that it was mainly because of Southwest since they have so many delays going on right now. When 4:30 came we were still waiting on a couple of people to arrive. Once one of the professors, Mr. Ladd, got to the airport he took roll and started to send us to check in and go through security. Now I’m a bit of an over packer, lol, so I was worried about having to pay extra for my bag but thankfully was 49 pounds. The security lines moved fast so that gave us some extra time to sit at the gate and chill. Now its about 5:30 AM and now I’m hungry so I look around a Starbuck but of course it’s at the other end where the B gates were, and we were at the C gates, so I decided not to go because I was sleepy. With no Starbucks I just chose to get a bag of chips and call it a day. We finally boarded the plane, and I got window seat so there was no complaining from me. During takeoff I wasted no time and went straight to sleep. The flight to Dallas was smooth for the most part, until the end…we got a lot of turbulence. For me I can normally sleep through it but on this flight, we were dropping down and made my stomach drop multiple times which cause me to wake and look around like what is going on. Right when I woke up the pilot came on and said that we were about experience so moderate turbulence. The turbulence continued until we landed and even the landing was a bit rough. When we landed in Dallas, we all got off the plane and headed to our next gate, once we got there Mr. Ladd told us that we were free to get food, but we needed to be back at the gate by 11:35 PM. It’s now about 10 AM so it’s still breakfast time so I got McDonald’s breakfast. I ate it fast and then took a nap until we had to meet up. When got back together as a group we had to fill out the visitor paperwork on online, when we got done with that, we boarded the plane ad got ready for the 14hour flight. I had the window seat once again, 2 for 2 lol, but when we got to altitude, they passed out the first meal but ya’ll should already know by now I was sleep lol. I heard that it was chicken or beef with white peas, next they gave you a small snack, then we got a wrap with dried peas, ewww, I suggest you bring snacks on with you just in case you don’t like what they and so you won’t be hungry. Our finally meal was the choice of scrambled eggs or veggie rice, I got the eggs they would have been better if I had some ketchup because it was more like a breakfast bowl. We landed about 4:30 PM, from the plane we had to take a bus to the airport/ train station. From there we linked up with Dr. V and he gave us our train card to get Ueno. We finally got to hostel after about a five-minute walk from the train, from there he c=gave us our rooms and our allowance for the week. With that money we went get some noodles from the mart because its open 24 hours. After eating and chilling, I got in te shower and went to bed because we had to up at 9 AM for orientation.
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