taipei

just landed in taipei and thought i would check to see if there was free wireless. sweet.

so, the first leg of the trip turned out to be exciting. turns out that china airlines has no consideration for musical instruments. after a 20 min discussion, they decided that they would gate check my trombone and then i could pick it up in taipei. then they told me the most frightening thing i could hear as a trombonist; "at least yours is a somewhat hard case. we have definitely had to put trombones in soft cases below the plane."

i arrived ready to pick up my trombone only to find that they have decided to ship it on to kuala lumpur without notifying me. let's just hope it comes out ok on the other side.

besides that, it was a great flight. i drank a ton of water, watched a movie (the one about ford getting sued, don't know what it is called), and listened to a bunch of music. all of that happened after i slept the first 8 hours of the flight. it was amazing. i put the blanket over my head and when i woke up i was so confused. someone was tapping my shoulder and i didn't know that the blanket was over my head so, needless to say, i looked a bit ridiculous.

more to come later.