So at 6 o’clock on the 15th I woke up,
because obviously I had to get ready form my flight.
Travelled to Schiphol, blocked a couple of people with my giant suitcase along the way and got there about 3 hours before my flight actually even left.
I still can’t believe it : I could already check in my baggage at the Lufthansa counter ( The time went I went with Finnair in 2012 it wasn’t even open yet and there was a giant cue already to begin with ).
It was so peaceful at the item check thing that I didn’t even had to wait for more than 5 minutes.
So long story short : I just got there and I was in the airport maybe 30 minutes later.
Which meant: I had to wait for 2,5 more hours.
That turned out to be fun though because they changed the gate about 3 times.
I found out about the second change late, so I had to rush to my gate and when I got there they started boarding.
My timing was on point.
So I boarded a half empty plane because there were so many seats still available and I sat down on the place I was supposed to next to a really good looking German business guy.
YES, just my luck (:
It took about 1 hour to get to Munich.
I got off and I walked around in completely confused for a while.
This didn’t matter because My flight was at 16:05 and I was already there around 13:10.
Then I went through passport control just to get it over with.. and then I got to my gate thinking.. “Hey, these people don’t look Korean”.
But it turned out there was a flight to Croatia at the same gate an hour before the one to Incheon.
So I walked around aimlessly for 1,5 hours looking for Starbucks and what not.
Which in the end I never found because apparently if you go through passport control, there is no more Starbucks.
Great.
So I manipulated the Wi-Fi a few times.
Basically you can only go on the internet for 30 minutes with one certain e-mail and you didn’t even have to log in.
So I changed my e-mail a few times and ended up getting 2 hours of free Wi-Fi anyway.
Then it was time to board.. a half empty plane again.
So that caused people to sit everywhere and the stewardess told me I could sit at different places because the plane was so empty anyway.
So the couple next to me got their precious ‘’alone’’ time.
Whatever.
I’m just bitter because the guy I like is still in London.
So what?
This ajumma got to lay down on 2 seats which was fine because I wasn’t able to sleep anyway.
Maybe drinking Red Bull wasn’t the best choice after all.
And loads of the Korean people already slept after the first hour which I still think is pretty amazing.
These people are able to sleep almost instantly anywhere, it seems.
I really didn’t like that Lufthansa didn’t even have 1 Korean movie in there which was a damn shame.
Finnair had a couple of Korean movies which was sooooo nice.
This will definitely be a reason to choose Finnair or Korean Air instead in the future.
So I ended up just watching the Lego movie instead.
Everything about that is indeed awesome.
SPACESHIP!
After that I watched 12 years as a slave which gave me goose bumps even after the first time the word “Nigger’’ was said.
Luckily for me they repeat this word throughout the whole movie.
I absolutely dislike this word and that kind of approach on black people to begin with.
So this storyline was pretty heavy on me.
Then I looked at pictures on my laptop for another hour.. somehow and watched some Community.
After that I somewhat slept and then it was time to get up for breakfast.
We landed at Incheon at about 9:25 and from there things went quickly.
I was greeted by a very happy man of border control.
He’s like : ‘’Ah! You always go to Korea every year since 2012 and always around the same time!’’
‘’Do you have Korean friends or relatives?’’
I loved how he instantly thought I might even have Korean relatives.
I guess I do kind of consider myself to be a quarter Korean anyway.. Haha.
You would think this is a joke, but I swear my mom even says this.
Anyway.
The man looked so happy that he didn’t even bother to look at my other document that much.
I just had to take fingerprint scans and I swear this time they didn’t even take a picture.
Maybe they still have the ones from previous years.
I walked out to the luggage place and they already started releasing luggage before I even arrived there.
Yes I swear Incheon airport has the fastest luggage service EVER.
I got my luggage put some stuff from my backpack to my suitcase and I went off.
I quickly took out some money at the nearest ATM trying to avoid ALL taxi drivers (which I did).
And quickly went towards the high express train to Seoul station.
Actually my first time ever even taking this.
I got to Seoul station in about 45 minutes and I bought KTX tickets to Dongdaegu right after.
Luckily for me the train from 12:15 still had seats.
Then after I had to call Yun Jongchan which is basically the guy responsible for the language program.
I try to call with payphone (Hint: Look for a giant group of military guys)
But I didn’t have more than 500 won change and there were like 10 military guys in line for 4 different phones already.
So I decided to just call Jongchan from my mobile.
Skit!
This word you guys just have to get used to, it’s a word I use went I want to say that I don’t care AT ALL.
I loved how Jongchan used words like : Uhm and Yeah like he was just a friend.
I guess people here are way less formal when it comes to foreigners.
Which I really like.
After that I bought some food and went to my KTX train.
I WASN’T ABLE TO GO FOR KIMCHI JJIGAE AT SEOUL STATION AND ITS MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE ARGH.
Travelled to Schiphol, blocked a couple of people with my giant suitcase along the way and got there about 3 hours before my flight actually even left.
I still can’t believe it : I could already check in my baggage at the Lufthansa counter ( The time went I went with Finnair in 2012 it wasn’t even open yet and there was a giant cue already to begin with ).
It was so peaceful at the item check thing that I didn’t even had to wait for more than 5 minutes.
So long story short : I just got there and I was in the airport maybe 30 minutes later.
Which meant: I had to wait for 2,5 more hours.
That turned out to be fun though because they changed the gate about 3 times.
I found out about the second change late, so I had to rush to my gate and when I got there they started boarding.
My timing was on point.
So I boarded a half empty plane because there were so many seats still available and I sat down on the place I was supposed to next to a really good looking German business guy.
YES, just my luck (:
It took about 1 hour to get to Munich.
I got off and I walked around in completely confused for a while.
This didn’t matter because My flight was at 16:05 and I was already there around 13:10.
Then I went through passport control just to get it over with.. and then I got to my gate thinking.. “Hey, these people don’t look Korean”.
But it turned out there was a flight to Croatia at the same gate an hour before the one to Incheon.
So I walked around aimlessly for 1,5 hours looking for Starbucks and what not.
Which in the end I never found because apparently if you go through passport control, there is no more Starbucks.
Great.
So I manipulated the Wi-Fi a few times.
Basically you can only go on the internet for 30 minutes with one certain e-mail and you didn’t even have to log in.
So I changed my e-mail a few times and ended up getting 2 hours of free Wi-Fi anyway.
Then it was time to board.. a half empty plane again.
So that caused people to sit everywhere and the stewardess told me I could sit at different places because the plane was so empty anyway.
So the couple next to me got their precious ‘’alone’’ time.
Whatever.
I’m just bitter because the guy I like is still in London.
So what?
This ajumma got to lay down on 2 seats which was fine because I wasn’t able to sleep anyway.
Maybe drinking Red Bull wasn’t the best choice after all.
And loads of the Korean people already slept after the first hour which I still think is pretty amazing.
These people are able to sleep almost instantly anywhere, it seems.
I really didn’t like that Lufthansa didn’t even have 1 Korean movie in there which was a damn shame.
Finnair had a couple of Korean movies which was sooooo nice.
This will definitely be a reason to choose Finnair or Korean Air instead in the future.
So I ended up just watching the Lego movie instead.
Everything about that is indeed awesome.
SPACESHIP!
After that I watched 12 years as a slave which gave me goose bumps even after the first time the word “Nigger’’ was said.
Luckily for me they repeat this word throughout the whole movie.
I absolutely dislike this word and that kind of approach on black people to begin with.
So this storyline was pretty heavy on me.
Then I looked at pictures on my laptop for another hour.. somehow and watched some Community.
After that I somewhat slept and then it was time to get up for breakfast.
We landed at Incheon at about 9:25 and from there things went quickly.
I was greeted by a very happy man of border control.
He’s like : ‘’Ah! You always go to Korea every year since 2012 and always around the same time!’’
‘’Do you have Korean friends or relatives?’’
I loved how he instantly thought I might even have Korean relatives.
I guess I do kind of consider myself to be a quarter Korean anyway.. Haha.
You would think this is a joke, but I swear my mom even says this.
Anyway.
The man looked so happy that he didn’t even bother to look at my other document that much.
I just had to take fingerprint scans and I swear this time they didn’t even take a picture.
Maybe they still have the ones from previous years.
I walked out to the luggage place and they already started releasing luggage before I even arrived there.
Yes I swear Incheon airport has the fastest luggage service EVER.
I got my luggage put some stuff from my backpack to my suitcase and I went off.
I quickly took out some money at the nearest ATM trying to avoid ALL taxi drivers (which I did).
And quickly went towards the high express train to Seoul station.
Actually my first time ever even taking this.
I got to Seoul station in about 45 minutes and I bought KTX tickets to Dongdaegu right after.
Luckily for me the train from 12:15 still had seats.
Then after I had to call Yun Jongchan which is basically the guy responsible for the language program.
I try to call with payphone (Hint: Look for a giant group of military guys)
But I didn’t have more than 500 won change and there were like 10 military guys in line for 4 different phones already.
So I decided to just call Jongchan from my mobile.
Skit!
This word you guys just have to get used to, it’s a word I use went I want to say that I don’t care AT ALL.
I loved how Jongchan used words like : Uhm and Yeah like he was just a friend.
I guess people here are way less formal when it comes to foreigners.
Which I really like.
After that I bought some food and went to my KTX train.
I WASN’T ABLE TO GO FOR KIMCHI JJIGAE AT SEOUL STATION AND ITS MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE ARGH.
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