Sneak, sneak:
"June 25
th: I’m aboard the Northwest airplane heading to
Tokyo. It’s been a very long day, or it seemed like it. Dad woke me up around
8 am and that gave me time to shower quickly and be out by
9:10. We took the highway to the
Whitestone Bridge and then proceeded onward to the JFK airport. I went to Terminal 4 while Dad was trying to find a parking spot. I was really confused at first but after some lady helped me around, I found out that I had to print out a ticket from a machine since I ordered
one online. Dad was giving me a hard time since I was a bit slow at this and he doesn’t have patience. I headed to the luggage checkout place (D: forgot what it’s called) and after that, I was done. It was
10:30, I believe. I didn’t officially say bye to my dad since I got angry at him for getting pissed off at me. I was going to go back to check if he was there but the dude who told me which gate to go to was on the way there so it would be awkward if he saw me going back to the entrance of the terminal. I paced around a bit, feeling a bit tense. For the first time in a long time, I felt completely alone. No one was here to help me on my journey back to
Korea or with me to experience it. After pacing about aimlessly, I decided to walk down to the first floor."
OOOOOh~!
one online. Dad was giving me a hard time since I was a bit slow at this and he doesn’t have patience. I headed to the luggage checkout place (D: forgot what it’s called) and after that, I was done. It was 
2 comments:
Oh the suspense! What is on the first floor... ?! xD
Aw, I semi-understand how alone you felt in the airport. I actually went to an airport to take a flight by myself once and it was a bit overwhelming. There were so many signs everywhere! And I'm not very good with arrows on signs; how would you know whether it's pointing up or down? And there were so many different lines for different kinda of flights/seats or whatever and the airport itself is so HUGE. It's really confusing. (And I didn't get much sleep the night before, if any at all. xD) I actually did miss a connecting flight because I went to the wrong section of the airport because I heard a flight attendant I questioned incorrectly. (and it took so long and so much walking to get to each section, uuugh.) But I was lucky there was another flight on the same company just an hour later and was able to take it!
It must have been scary(?) to take such a long flight to such a faraway place by yourself, to land in a virtually unrecognizable place and to meet and stay with people you don't know very well (even if they are family)! I wouldn't have been able to do it... I actually refused to take the flight with only my brother to China when I was younger. xD;
Well, you haven't taken into account that you were younger back then. I went just last summer and everything was planned out and set up (and I also had a lot of time in between to switch planes). It was a little bit nerve-wracking as you will see in my later post but I got over it, and in fact, enjoyed every minute.
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