Packing Part 2

The 20 kg limit for a checked-in luggage is every JTA student’s nightmare – well, for those riding coach at least, like me. Practicality and a good son’s conscience dictate that spending more dough for business and first class seats for a four hour flight is ridiculous and impractical. Imagine, the additional money to be spent on upgrading from economy is already equivalent to a month’s worth of apartment dues in Japan. So why bother?

That aside, I think that the 20 kg limit is not as bad as what I thought it was, and this pleasant revelation came to me when I started packing two days ago. At the moment, inside my luggage are a month’s worth of casual clothing, accessories, cardigans and jackets — all these weighing a little less than 12kg. I have yet to pack other winter wear that include a cropped trench coat which I am very very excited to wear (who gets to wear trench coats here anyway, without looking funny and be ridiculed??), a week’s worth of pants, underwear, socks, toiletries, four pairs of shoes, and those other little things. Wait. It sounds like that I have a LOT more to pack and yet, here I am not  worrying at all! Hah! 

PS. I wanted to put a picture here of the list that details the things I should pack and the pictures of my luggage, but bleh. I just noticed that this site does not look clean with pictures popping here and there.