View from my hotel room
View of San Francisco from the window of the Consul general's residence
The trip began with taking off, flying for about 15 minutes and then returning to Houston. The pilot said there was smoke in the electronics compartment. We returned to the ground in Houston gently enough where there was a panic of passengers trying to reset their flights to make their connections to Beijing and Hong Kong. After a long delay we were told that the smoke detector was defective, so we reboarded the plan.
Several hours later I found myself in San Francisco explaining over and over to my new JFMF peers how I broke my arm.
We turned in our Follow On Plans, picked up our books, and went to orientation. We heard from Christopher Powers, the director of IIE, Robert Radford, the director of Friends of the Memorial Fund, and David Satterwhite, the executive director of the Japan-United States Educational Commission. A panel of former JFMFers told us about their experiences. We met with our city groups and changed clothes to go to a reception at the Official Residence of Japanese Consul General Yasumasa Nagamine.
I started this entry in San Francisco in the lobby of the Sheraton Gateway Hotel, but had to finish it off in Tokyo. I thought I had lost this entry when we were called to the buses. I had to log down as quickly as I could.
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