Update from Tokyo

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am back into the blog! And its Holidays! :) So now im updating from Narita Airport in Tokyo. Im here on a 9 hour transit stop from London. I should be home soon( the 9 hour wait plus the 10 hour flight) though as from here I fly directly to Sydney. I have to say im very exhausted.

7.30am alarm clock rings -why is it ringing?im on holidays. Oh yeah, im flying home today.
7.45am francesca calls - im taking the bus to the station, ill see u in the train station.
8.00am miquel calls - 15 minutes and we are leaving okay?
8.15 am we put warm water on the ice that there is on the glass of the carr
8.18 am amazing sunrise! if only i had my camera (tsk its in the rear seats)
8.22 am leave campus
8.30 amarrive at station and get mine and miquels luggage while he parcs
8.34am Monika and Francesca are already there, i buy the tickets
8.45am train comes and leaves....
8.53am we arrive at Massy Palasseau, time to change trains...
9.00am we are at Antony..bye bye to Francesca and to Miquel who almost miss their stop.
9.30am I randomly meet Marlene in the train
9.39am Monika gets off - Bonnes Vacances
9.40am Marlene realizes she is going the wrong drietion and jumps off
9.45am the train just stops and i start to get nervous
9.50 am the train is still stoped
9.55 am the train is running
10.00 am the train stops again
10.15am we still have 10 train stops to go
10.30am "ladies and gentlemen, the train will skip all the stops in the middle and go directly to the airport" yessssssss!
10.40am arrival at airport!
11.00am finally do autocheck in, change seats and head to business lounge
11.10am the business lounge has no working computers! GRRRR!!!
11.30am Start to get calls non stop: Miquel,Alexandra,Dad (good flight good flight) and then good news, we set an interview for when ill be back with a company :)
12.00am Time to board the plane
12.05am Before bording i have to pass another security and ppl start to cut line...how beautiful.
12.10am I wait sitted for everybody to board. What is the point in making a 10 hour queue if afterall you will all be in the plane!? I love to sit and watch ppl board the plane and make lines, once everybody has gone in then i stand up and board the plane...
12.25am We depart
12.50am (london time) we arrive at heathrow.
Im so thinking about other things that I go from terminal 4 to terminal 1 for my next flight. But because im distracted i take another bus back to terminal 4 and then i realize im back where I was and have to take another bus back to terminal 1. I have to pass controls in every terminal, so I end up rushing to the plane and board on time. The two hours I had of transfer have ended up in me running in circles in Heathrow. I can finally definatively state that I know the airport terminal 1 and 4 pretty well :)
14.25 am Depart of flight. And the adventure begins.
I turn to my right and there is an older woman sitting. Just to make some chat i say "we have a long flight infront of us", to my astonishment she replies that she is going to Sydney. Aha, so im not alone! They took her off her direct flight from London to Sydney so now she is also coming to Tokyo and having to wait 8 hours... She talks to me about her life. Super active 73 year old who wakes upa t 5 everymorning to go running and then swimming. To the other side i have the aisle and then there is a pretty tall guy. Once we have started to fly the guy tries to pull his sit back but the bitch behind him puts her knee to prevent him moving. He gets irritated and kindly asks her to take her knee out. Her reply is nothing more than "if you want more space you should get yourself a business ticket". The guy seriously has no words, i look at him with a look that lets him know i think the woman is a super bitch and i feel sorry for him. "Madame look at me, im big, look at yourself. Please let me put my sit back"...she continues to be arrogant as she has also previously been to the cabin crew when they told her to sit down and she replied " you leave with a delay and then you tell me to sit down? i think we can do whatever we want if we are laeving late...". Everytime that i stand up to drink water and walk around the airplane in this 10 hour flight my 73 year old australian neighour joins me. And she starts to have chats with everybody, so suddenly we meet many more ppl who are also going to Sydney via Tokyo. Funny! The woman is the one who is initiating all the chats. Specially by going up to everybody and going "good day mate".

"im portuguese but i live in sydney"
"im spanish but i live in paris and my famlily lives in sydney"
"im french but i live in london and im going to visit someone in sydney"
"im australian but i came to brusels to see my brother and im going back to sydney"

The point is we are all going to Sydney...and we all hope to get there in about 34 hours...
Everybody is sleeping, even the tall guy who doesnt fit in his chair, but of course I cant. I watch a movie, i look at a bbc documentary on india, i listen to music, i even put an audio book as im convince that will make me sleep, but nothing works. Finally I wake up, i have slept! Yes, for 1 hour only.Out of the 10 hours i only sleep 1 and it is the final hour when the lights are almost open.
The old woman who was super active starts to feel sick, we disimark and i say "bye see you in the later flight"... i head to the business lounge at Narita. The place is nice,but it lacks food, however im having this free internet. It also has showers and since ive never taken a shower in a business lounge and im swety and tierd i decide to go for it. Wow! The shower place is huge, i feel like in a hotel. Wow Wow Wow...this at least compensates for the lack of food. People are sleeping in the lounge, but its pretty empty. Theres about 4 of us who are here since 11 and who are waiting for the 8pm flight to Sydney. The people that I met in the plane im sure they are all outside sitting and hanging around. I take some pictures with my nikon, i walk around but nothing is new and im tiered. I still got 1,000yen left from last summer which i spend on somethign to take home and which I hope the australian customs wont keep....

And I forgot to mention, BA said the "welcome to tokyo" message in Japanese,English,Spanish and CATALAN! Why catalan, i dont know! When we left london they said it in Japanese, English and French, but in landing they said it in Catalan and now the best is that it wasnt a tape, it was really someone speaking :)

Im waiting to get home...soooooon! and now im going to try and sleep (im purposely drinking some rum and coke..see if that helps, im jetlaged and tiered!)
Goodbye from Narita!
I wish i could have walked around Tokyo, it would have been nice. But Narita is far from Tokyo and I didnt want to get lost in the city. So before having any problems I rather just stia nd wait here together with all my friends that came from London!
See ya later mates!