First Assignment

7/ 06/ 2005

Manila International Airport

This is my first assignment. I'm tasked to deliver a package to Osaka Japan, the package contents are micro-chips. I am to deliver the package to Mr. Hondo of Fujitsu electronics. He will be waiting for me in the airport in Osaka. For this adventure I will recieve $500 us dollars plus expenses ( hotel, train fare)

My name is Jacques Havanne, half Corsican half-Filipino. I live in Manila under another name( my filipino name). I work as an air courier. I see the world one day at a time. I am the hand-carry man.

I landed this "job" because of my passport. European Union passport holders are visa exempt to 70% of countries around the world.

My flight leaves at 8:10 in the evening. Im flying Lufthansa on this trip. I am excited as hell as i've never been to Japan or Osaka, I check the net to see what the weather is like and how much the hotels cost.

My allowance is about 100 US dollars. Enough for one night in a "cheap" Osaka hotel and breakfast.

Meanwhile back to the flight...

We board at around 8;15 we take off at around 9:00 pm. The six -hour flight is mercifully uneventful. Just me and a hundred or so filipina entertainers and "hostos" ( male entertainers)plying thier trade in japan.

I here theyr'e pay is good - (the entertainers) I strike up a conversation with one filipino who has been going back and forth to Osaka as a drummer in a club for fourteen years now. He say's its not uncommon to get 300-400 dollars a night in tips. Wow and here i am making peanuts delivering hi-tech stuff. Well at least i can pretend im James Bond....