Day 9 -- The flight home and forgot-to-mentions

Well I'm here on the 14 hour flight home. This has been a very typical flight home so far, other than our professor opting to stay in Taiwan, so we're doing this one alone. Rather than describe in excruciating detail the quality of airline food, or how great it is to sit for 14 hours, I thought I'd take this opportunity to mention some things that happened that, for whatever reason, didn't make it into my blog, but that were interesting or noteworthy.

The first comes from Japan. We were in a bus somewhere when we passed by a drug store called "Love Drugs." Of course, me and the guy beside me start laughing, and one of our Japanese friends asked what was funny. We then had to use his e-dictionary to look up viagra, which also lead to a conversation about roofies. This in turn lead to talking about drug use in general, which brought to light the phrase "death spiral," which he thought was hilarious.

This story is from when I came home from Akihabara. I was walking around the train station and a middle-schooler waved at me and, striking a pose, shouted "Hello! I am Bruce Li!" To which I laughed and responded, in Japanese "Oh? Well then I'm Tom Cruise." They like that, and it gave me something to laugh about when I was feeling really stressed out, and he thought it was great.

On day one of Taiwan, I didn't mention, but there are tons of shops here run by small entrepreneurs. They're the kind of place you can get a dress shirt for 3 bucks, or a themed phone case for 5. I never really got a chance to explore them too thoroughly, but it really was something to see.

Goodbye Japan!

This was pretty cool to see

Right at the edge of the day/night line

Hello some part of Canada!

My pack job, upon getting here. Everything is pristine. You'll notice, however,  there's only one bag...

Yep. They managed to lose my other bag. Luckily they found it, and it's on its way now, but man was I NOT happy to find out about that. >:| I'll see you soon, other suitcase!

Over and out!