Aren't you a little too careless?

It was a really short three-week stay. I didn't do anything big or go somewhere far. I just stayed with my family. But the three weeks passed by really fast. Tokyo is a good place to live... I still don't like the recruitment custom, but other than that, everything is close and reachable. You can take a train or subway to anywhere.

I wanted to go to Nagasaki, a city in west Kyushu. The issue is that it's way far from Tokyo. Even on bullet trains, it would take 5 or 6 hours. You can fly, but not sure how much it would cost.

We could use Seishun 18 ticket, a set of five tickets, each of which let you ride local trains as much as you want on a day. You cannot take any express trains including bullet trains, but surely it's cheap.

But, we ended up not going. Furthest place I got to go to was Kamakura.

And now here I am. Back in Alabama. It's hard to believe that most of my break has already gone. I have to be back in school next week.

On my way to Atlanta, I made one stop to transfer. For some reason, direct flights between Atlanta and Tokyo are always expensive, so I always choose a plan with one stop.

At the first airport, I have to go through immigration and customs. It usually take a while to go through the immigration for non-immigrant visitors. While in the room of immigration, you are not supposed to talk on a phone or take a picture.

Now, there is a Japanese man a few people behind me on a line. He was with his wife and two children, and they probably came for sightseeing. Then all of sudden, he took a picture of one of his children with flash.

I thought "Wait... I thought it was prohibited to take a picture here... I hope they didn't notice..."

Then, a few seconds later, a officer in the immigration counter went, "Who did take a picture?" The man had no idea, but a guy behind him told him that he was not supposed to take pictures. As officers were asking, he ended up not telling them about what he did.

I didn't hear clearly, but the officer said she could check the whole room.

As I gazed at the man and the officer, I thought he'd better hold up his hand to let them know. This shouldn't keep me from connecting flight.

It didn't delay the process, and the family seemed having had no problem. But, I think he was too careless. He should surely know how seriously the U.S. government takes the security. The end of Iraq War was declared, but the U.S. is still at war. Hopefully he learned a lesson.