The first day of travel, and how to kill a layover.

Well, my trip has officially started!! Exams went late this year -my last one was on the 25th -and the last few days have been a flurry of running around picking up last minute items, connecting with friends before I disappear, packing, re-packing, remembering things I should have picked up, cleaning and organizing my room for my subletter, and finally, FINALLY, getting going. I've been fortunate to have such a great roommate. Brittany and I were strangers when she moved in, but we've grown to become quite close. She's the one taking care of my cats this summer, she found my subletter for me, and we spent my last night in Kingston cleaning and organizing the apartment together.

Sampson wanted to go on a trip as well. Also, note the massive mess that my room had turned into in the background.

Brit was also the one to come with me to Toronto for a girls day. We walked around, ate some delicious food and went up the CN tower as she had never been, and the last time I had been up was when I was 10. After a great day and an early night at the hotel, she was kind enough to wake up at 3am with me to make it to the airport for 4am to see me off. I'm lucky to have great friends!

On the glass floor of the CN tower!

So here I am now. The flight to Washington was short and uneventful. I was expecting to be more thrilled and electrified as I took off, but I think the lack of sleep over the last two nights just kept me too sleepy to get properly pumped up. Ah well. I have a 14hr flight to Tokyo lined up for 12:20 will give me plenty of time to (try) to get caught up on sleep!

For now, I'm learning how to kill time. This is not something that I'm used to! Simple things, like seeing how long the hallway is, getting a coffee, or finding out what gate I am at, are being turned into events that last much longer than necessary. Writing a perhaps less than exciting blog post about what I've been up to, and learning how to use my blogging app is clearly becoming one way of using up time as well! Haha.

 

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