Sunday 30/12/18 Back to Kyusyu

We got up at 6:15am to catch a train leaving 6:56am.  Many people were going their hometown for the new year celebrations. We had to change the trains 10times today. We had a bit of confusion with the train timetable but managed to get seats for most of the train. The one from near Okayama had a fewer empty seats and we could not seat next to each other. This gave us an opportunity to talk to people. The boy who was sitting next to Mike said "Do you speak English?" and started to talk to him. He was a little bit younger than Tamaki but was very confident to ask questions in English.
The old guy who was sitting next to Noriko also started to talk to her after watching the boy talking to Mike. They were not related and the old guy was impressed with the boy talking in English. The old guy was also using the Seisyun jyuhachi kippu