Having arrived in Japan, I was rather tired. I hosted a group of friends from school that weekend, so I went to bed at about 3:00 in the morning the night before, awoke at 4:30 after a restless sleep and got on the road at 5:30 to get to the airport that is a little over an hour away. Norfolk International Airport is the closest one to the Eastern Shore of Virgina, where I live. I caught a 7:30 flight for Washington- Dulles International Airport, where I boarded my Al Nippon Airlines flight at 12:20 P.M. It was a 14- hour flight from there. I took, amazingly enough, only one bathroom break somewhere in the middle of the flight, and I did not sleep much. Read lots.... in English. There was a very nice Japanese woman
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