Finally in Taiwan

Well, we finally arrived in Taipei tonight. Here's the high-level detail of the trip:

• Leave to meet at the school 4am.
  
• Leave for Charlotte 4:45am (our time)
• Leave Charlotte for Dallas-Fort-Worth 9am (our time)
• Arrive at Dallas airport 2-3 hrs later.
• Leave for Tokyo Japan almost as soon as we arrive in Dallas.
  Tokyo was a 13+ hour flight. I got to watch a few good movies, but what a long flight!!!
  
• After we arrived in Tokyo we had to stay on the plane and wait for the Japanese health officials to clear us all. I have some videos of them boarding the plane and walking around collecting our paperwork.
  
  • By the way some of our group (me included) were lucky enough to stay quarantined on the plane for an extra 20 minutes while they led away someone that was sitting behind us with a fever. He had blood taken and it was negative for the swine flu. Thank the lord! Here's video of it:
    

    Quarantined on the Plane (Briefly) from Joshua Belliveau on Vimeo.

    
    
• We waited in Tokyo for a few hours before our flight to Taipei, Taiwan. By 11PM on Friday May 8th we arrived at our hotel. That's 11Am on 5/8 on EST - that means from 4am on 5/7 until 11am on 5/8 I was traveling. That's a whopping 27 hours worth for those of you counting!!!

Pictures and videos will follow later. For now, it's 1:15AM our local time and we need to be up around 7am.