Skills to pay the bills

I forget when it was, but sometime at the end of this summer Bethany and I was able to fly in this plane over the Tsugaru peninsula. Mr. Fujimoto, who took us, comes to the church's Thursday night English class. He has taken previous Short-term workers up in the plane before and he had been asking me if I'd like to go too so on a day when the weather was nice I was able to go up. I never thought of being able to fly in a small airplane like this in Japan so it was really cool. Mr. Fujimoto studied to be a pilot when he was young so it was nice that he offered rides.

When we flew of, the runway at Aomori airport青森空港 seemed very big compared to the small plane we were riding. As we rose in altitude and flew for a while away from Aomori city we came to right above Itayanagi it took a while to find, but Bethany and I were able to spot our house, the church, Itoku, the train station and everything near our house from the plane window. It was interesting to see the town from straight above. I thought that the houses and buildings would be more spread apart, but everything looked so cramped and close together. Obviously not where the rice fields were, though.

Moving on from Itayanagi we went to Ajigasawa鰺ヶ沢 and saw Ajigasawa church and the ocean. On the way back to Aomori we flew above Goshogawara city五所川原市and spotted ELM and all the things we managed to distinguish. It was pretty amazing. After landing safely, we were able to take a look into the control tower at the airport. It was interesting. There was a very clear view of the runway. Even though we went to all those places we were only in the airplane for about 40minutes. I guess this proves that airplanes fly fast. It was an exciting experience.