Dubai

At the time of writing, it is 12:55am in Dubai, it is 9:54pm back in England. I've no idea what it is over in Japan, but I'm due to arrive about 5:35pm I believe. I have £9, $3 and 86,000 yen in my wallet. I'm slightly perplexed by the numbers.

I'm somewhat pleased to say the last pound coin I spent for the next year was on an Outrun 2 cabinet, although this was one which would constantly turn towards the left. I didn't do well, but it was another oppurtunity to hear Magical Sound Shower.

The journey so far has been straightforward, which is something of a relief as I've not actually travelled by myself before. The only issue, which has only really been a technical thing, has been logging onto the wifi in Dubai Airport, which for some reason required me to connect to something called 'maxspot', and then use Internet Explorer to receive some advertisements from Hilton Hotels. If I didn't go through that process, I wouldn't be able to connect at all. Slightly curious as to why that is. If it wasn't for a friendly American fellow, with a beard no less, to suggest what to do, I wouldn't be updating this right now.

Also, for those that might be wondering, inflight entertainment consisted of watching X-men: First Class for a second time, which was worth it for Fassbender, The Beaver, which was worth it for Mel Gibson hitting himself in the face several times, and then I napped throughout Super 8. If that's not a recommendation, I don't know what is.

Only other topic of note is that I did, unfortunately, forget a couple of items while packing. Those are a mouse, and a network cable. Neither of these should be something I have to use in the immediate future, but I'm not sure what the dorms at Hosei are like regarding internet connections.

To save myself from rambling, I'll sign off here, and update again in... however many hours it is.

Miss you, Monika.