Leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again. See ya Japan

So, I made a decision to leave Japan many months ago.  It finally culminated in my leaving to try my luck in Taiwan.  I've heard many good things about Taiwan and almost none bad.  After applying to many companies and only getting a few returns, I scored a job with a national company that teaches children.  Kind of the same job as I was doing in Japan so hopefully there won't be the same amount of new job stress I suffered when I first came to Japan.  Here's to hoping.

After jumping through the usual hoops to get the confirmation of the job I was able to book my flight.  Yee Haw!!!  Get to finally leave the high stress environment of having a shitty boss and far to much commuting for my liking.  I booked with Peach.  It's a fairly new low cost carrier flying out of Kansai airport in Osaka.

Now, when you go to Taiwan you have to book a flight out of the country or they won't let you in.  So I booked a return flight at the end of October.  Made the mistake of booking 2 bags on the return flight and then found out not only could I not get my money back for the flight (I get peach points towards my next flight) I forfeit the baggage fees completely.  Not to impressed, but whatever.  While booking I got to choose where I want to sit.  So I choose a seat with extra foot space (not the emergency aisle though).  When I got to my seat I was happy about choosing the extra space because I couldn't imagine what the regular seat space gave you.  Here's a pic of what I had.

Not much space as you can see. 

Despite the lack of space it was an uneventful flight.  Because I choose the window seat I got to see the tops of the clouds.  They're pretty cool.

One easy landing later and I am on the ground in Taoyuan international airport.  Got off the plane and advanced to immigration.  The lady behind the booth who took my picture didn't seem to impressed that I was coming to teach English, but she let me pass with no trouble.  I am always nervous about customs and immigration for some reason.

After leaving this area I moved on to baggage claim.  Surprisingly enough my bags didn't take long to arrive and I was off to customs.  Man, I wish customs was like this in Canada.  Everyone just strolled through.  They didn't check any luggage.  Not mine, not anyone's.  Go figure!

The company that I have hired with said they would have a driver just outside customs and there he was.  With a little bit of bad English we were on our way.  Took about 45mins to get to the hotel.  

Here's where things get a little dicey.  This hotel is a dive.  Brings me back to when I was insulating attics and had to stay in motels in the middle of nowhere. 

Its a two room room.  Tomorrow there will be another future HESS employee staying with me.  I imagine we will be bunking together all through training.  The thing I really didn't like was that I had to pay for all the days leading up to training and the new guy would pay me for his half.  Nice way to start trouble.  Hopefully there won't be any problems.  I'll have to keep you posted.

That's what has happened so far on my newest odyssey.  Now I gotta go see if I can find an air freshener somewhere cuz this room smells bad.