For two years, it has been a tradition for my sister and me to fly from our home in Taiwan
to Japan to do shopping.
In July, there are clothing sales everywhere in Japan, so we always go for one week.
This year I wasn’t able to fly to Tokyo with my sister because Im in Vancouver.
I don’t like to fly alone for many hours and I wanted to go on a trip with my boyfriend, so I tried to convince him to go with me.
We would meet my sister in Tokyo. Since we only planned to shop, my boyfriend didn’t like the idea of paying for an expensive plane ticket just to go shopping.
He had never been to Japan and he wanted to go sightseeing as well. I bought my own ticket, but I had to persuade him to buy his own. One night at dinner, I asked, “Would you like to go to Japan with me?”
His immediately replied, “Are you crazy? It’s too expensive for me.”
He was a student, so he was skeptical about spending 1600 dollars on a plane ticket.
He wanted to go on a vacation with me but he wanted to go somewhere closer to Vancouver.
I told him we might be busier with school next year and wouldn’t be able to go on any trips.
He likes Japan anyway, and it would be great opportunity to go now. I also reminded him that we had never been on a vacation before.
He started to give in but wasn’t enthusiastic about doing so much shopping.
Seeing his frown, I offered a compromise, “We could do three days of shopping and three days of sightseeing.” I pulled his arm gently and begged. He smiled and agreed.
We had a great time on our trip.
Cyrus
Friday, 17 September 2010
