Japan Day 13

Another day of rais­ing from bed far too damn early; only to hop on trains and run like the wind to make all our train/plane con­nec­tions. *sigh* The day started off poorly as one of the stu­dents spent the night in S-sensai’s room and another had the key to her room with him at the sta­tion. But after that got storted out, things went rel­a­tively smoothly until Narita. Then there were mas­sive lines to get through secu­rity and cus­toms and some­how AWelkin, Bryon & 2 of the other stu­dents didn’t see us wait­ing for them after cus­toms so we were run­ning behind when we finally decided to hurry up through immi­gra­tion and to meet them at the board­ing gate. Though we did see them as we waited to get through immi­gra­tion, con­firmed that all stu­dents were accounted for and made our flight to O’Hare with­out a prob­lem. Our next prob­lem was that 3 stu­dents went miss­ing and nearly missed the flight from O’Hare to Cedar Rapids. Since that was the last flight of the night to CR; AWelkin (doing that respon­si­ble teacher thing) was plan­ning on stay­ing behind to find them but they showed up pretty much as the board­ing was fin­ish­ing up. So we all got home safely; Ariesna and I ate out with AWelkin and Bryon that night and my lovely finance ever so patiently lis­tened to all of us bitch our anger and frus­tra­tion out about the trip. *sigh* I’m too damn lucky for words to have a fiance like her.

Then we went home and I gave Ariesna all the sou­venirs that I’d got­ten for her on the trip and off to bed I went.

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