My Japanese Subway Experience!

When we were ready to leave the Tokyo Fish Market, we joined up with another group of teachers who were going to try to navigate the trip home by way of the Tokyo subway. One teacher from Louisiana, knew how to read the subway map, so we joined her! One of the first things I noticed was that as you enter the subway tunnels, there are rows of bicycle racks. The tunnels and terminals are all very clean, and the one we were in had a beautiful mural on the wall. The token machine has an option for "English", so we put our yen in and got our subway tokens. Whitney, the teacher from Louisiana, led us to the train track. As we got on the train, I felt very confident that we could do this. Six stops later, we all got off. Whitney then told us that we had to transfer to another train to get to our hotel. By this time, our little group of 6 had turned into a group of about 20, as we had come across other groups of teachers who were thankful we had Whitney! I was in the back of the group and talking with some other teachers, when the front of our group went around a corner. All of a sudden, we heard Whitney say, "Hurry, the train is getting ready to leave!!!" Those of us in the back of the group all got a shocked look on our face because we knew that if we lost Whitney, we were doomed!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It has probably been about 15 years since I last sprinted, but I SPRINTED up the stairs, as did all the teachers around me. We dove into the subway car, and breathed a collective sigh of relief when we realized we had all made it!!!!