Shirley@Narita

After 17 hours, i am at Tokyo now. (local time 16.48)

The flight from Chicago to Tokyo was okay. The gentleman next to me was a 68 year old man who has 6 kids. (what a coincidence!) His youngest son (aged 24) is a PhD student at Johns Hopkin (another coincidence!)...

Perhaps i am happy in general, everything is so pleasant... I love Japan!

But flying AA is so different from flying CX. This is my first time flying AA across Pacific. The plane seems to be more spacious than those with CX.

As expected, AA service is not as good as CX. One of the cabin crew member (a lady) even did not tie up her long fuzzy hair. That's was a dissonance for me. She was making an annoyed face after her cart "hit" one of the passenger.

There were 10 video channels. You may not believe but none of them interested me. I ended up watching commercial+short excerpts of CBS programs including sit coms and David Letterman show for an hour. That's already the best for me. For the rest 13 hours, i was listening to some soft music (repeat every one hour or so) and watching the flight map that told me where i was.

The food. I don't want to sound picky and harsh. So i am not saying much here. My only comment is: not even close to dorm food.

Nonetheless, my general good mood + $200 price different + busy working on term paper make the whole trip nice and kinda pleasant. Looking forward to my CX flight to Hong Kong. I am expecting this will make it all up.