a geographer's mind

Day 1 of Okinawa Exchange

Today is Day 2 of okinawa cultural exchange.

I shall say a bit about my day 1. Will leave Day 2 to tomorrow.

The only thing I want to say is that the flight was so lengthy and boring! Because there is no direct flight from Singapore to Okinawa, we have to first take a 7-hour flight to Tokyo, before switching to another plane for a 2h45min flight to okinawa.

And the best thing is, we flew over the same air space twice. I will use singapore's places to put across my point. First, we took a 7-hour flight from Singapore (say, harbourfront) to Tokyo (say, Yishun) and this flight will fly pass Okinawa (say, Orchard). After we landed in Tokyo, we need to collect our luggages and transfer to another domestic flight, from Tokyo (Yishun) back to Okinawa (Orchard). This second flight is 2h 45 mins long and hence, I wasted 5 and a half hour of my life sitting through the same air journey route. Sigh.

Hence, we left Singapore at 8.20am and touched down at Okinawa at 8.45pm. One day gone just like that. I was fetched directly to the hotel and being in Japan, the single hotel room is rather small. Not much of walking space but at least the bed is a queen size one (instead of a supersingle). The bathroom is the smallest I ever seen, about the size of 4 student desks joined together in a square.

Verdict for first night: The bed and room are comfortable despite the small size. And I have free internet access in the room and that sure make up for the limited size.

Disclaimer: I spent my Day 2 rather bored and there's so much idle time for me the whole time I was in the school. Hence, I will use these time to update my blog on a daily basis, at least for the next few days.

posted by Mr. D @ 5/26/2008 08:29:00 PM