Experience America

1. Leaving China

We left Changde for America on Nov. 7 Beijing time. The next day we took a Northwest Airline flight from Pudong International Airport of Shanghai. Our first stop was Tokyo. We had to change our plane here and then we would fly to Hawaii. We were not told that we would stay in Hawaii for two nights, so you can imagine our great joy when we got the news. I had never dreamed of coming to this paradise like place in my life!

We arrived at the Narita Airport of Tokyo at about 1:20 pm local time. It was 12:20 Beijing time since Japan is to the east of Beijing. It was one hour earlier than Beijing time.

OUr flight from Tokyo to Hawaii was at 8:50 pm, so we had to stay in "Japan" for nearly 6 hours.

Six hours is far from enough to see Tokyo, let alone to see Japan. But it is far more than enough to have a thorough look at the Narita Airport. Since our destination from Shanghai was not Tokyo and we stopped there just to change a plane, we could not leave the airport.

During our stay, I searched all the shops at the airport only to find everything was too expensive for me. I began to worry about my purse. Would things be more expensive in America? Would my purse be able to stand the high price in America?

I ate a bowl of instant noodles at the airport, costing me 690 yen, which is $6.o5, nearly 50 yuan of RMB. You can imagine how terribly my heart hurt then! But I had to have supper! I was hungry!