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ltgmarsYou can either call it a really long day or two really short days... nothing really happened except for the plane trip: a 14-hour trip during which I lost 15 hours of my life! We left at noon (Chicago time) and arrived in Seoul around 5:00 PM (Seoul time), equivalent to 2:00 AM Chicago time. Fifteen hours... gone, somehow. Therefore, Sunday-Monday was a 33-hour affair, as opposed to being 48 hours long.
I'll gain my hours back, though. I will! It's called "the return flight".
The plane trip itself was rather uneventful. Though I don't get motion sickness, I was ready to throw up the entire time. I'm sure it had something to do with my trying to sleep in cramped, awkward positions, waking up with one helluva fever (and acheyness), and sweating it off while developing a nice little headache to boot. I remember being bored and drawing some pretty seifuku-clad girls with weapons (my brother asked me why I didn't draw other types of people, like someone in a St. Joe uniform - I'll have to scan that sketch in when I get home), but I couldn't think of a second weapon so I just cut the second girl's arm off.
Things I learned on the flight:
-Flying over Alaska = uber-cool
-Music videos for Korean ballads are all overly dramatic
-The Korean drama they played as one of the in-flight movies was actually very well-done... better than the music videos, though there was a k-pop song I really liked.
Seoul is very cool. We luckily don't have to talk to anyone who doesn't know English (since we're only here as a transit between planes), so the entire "none of us knows how to speak a word of Korean" idea doesn't apply. We should have taken a plane to Tokyo instead (I told my mom this about 50 times) since I at least know how to hold the necessary conversations (Do you understand English? My favorite color is blue. I love you.), but I'm happy with Seoul.
We took a van from the airport to our transit hotel ("Hotel Airport"... go figure)... it was crazy. The seats Diki and I sat in faced backwards, sans seatbelts, while our driver talked on a cell phone and drove at an average speed of 130 kmph (about 80 mph).
Aren't there speed limits in South Korea?
Anyway, we split hotel rooms (me and Diki in one, my parents in the other), and we just finished watching a really cool feature on the Discovery Channel (the only English channel (wish korean subtitles) here...) about the Romanov family (the family which the legend of Anastasia, as well as the Disney movie by the same name, is based upon)... very cool documentary, though they revealed that Anastasia had, in fact, been killed with the rest of her family (there goes that legend). It's still one of the most fascinating true stories I've ever heard, and it's cool that Alexi and Maria's bodies were never found. *_*
The beds here are hard as rock (sort of like sleeping on a warm hardwood floor, though the thought of hardwood floors is nice - Eric has a really nice hardwood floor in his uber-nice house (which I told him I'd steal one day)), but the pillows here make up for them. I'm still trying to figure out how to steal one without their noticing.
Oh, and because I know you care, I was going to call Ilse's cell phone around 5:00 this morning (equivalent to 3:00 PM on Monday), but I'm pretty sure it'd cost too much money. ~_~
Anyway, I believe today will be spent romping around Seoul. I'm going to try to find a j-pop CD by BoA to buy (if I can get my intentions across...). Meh.
And now, time for some replies, since I'm too lazy to write comments...
Ilse - It'd be really nice if you all could come and wait at the airport, but it's inthe middle of the day on Friday (in Chicago), so no. :P
Mer & Rae - I think I forgot to tell everone that I was leaving. I swear I'd told you guys, though... guess not. ~_~;; And yes, Rae, fluffiness is so nice... :D Have fun withyour non-Eric person and tell me everything that happens!
Glaive - ;_; Don't be jealous... I still love you, darling! It's just... it's just that...
GAHHHHHHHH, I LUFF ERIC!!!!! ^______^
Well, I have a 10-minute limit on the hotel computer and I'm pretty sure that's gone. I think my uncle in Indonesia has a computer with internet access, so I'll try to post when I get there, and even (hopefully) check my e-mail.
Sore ja...
I'll gain my hours back, though. I will! It's called "the return flight".
The plane trip itself was rather uneventful. Though I don't get motion sickness, I was ready to throw up the entire time. I'm sure it had something to do with my trying to sleep in cramped, awkward positions, waking up with one helluva fever (and acheyness), and sweating it off while developing a nice little headache to boot. I remember being bored and drawing some pretty seifuku-clad girls with weapons (my brother asked me why I didn't draw other types of people, like someone in a St. Joe uniform - I'll have to scan that sketch in when I get home), but I couldn't think of a second weapon so I just cut the second girl's arm off.
Things I learned on the flight:
-Flying over Alaska = uber-cool
-Music videos for Korean ballads are all overly dramatic
-The Korean drama they played as one of the in-flight movies was actually very well-done... better than the music videos, though there was a k-pop song I really liked.
Seoul is very cool. We luckily don't have to talk to anyone who doesn't know English (since we're only here as a transit between planes), so the entire "none of us knows how to speak a word of Korean" idea doesn't apply. We should have taken a plane to Tokyo instead (I told my mom this about 50 times) since I at least know how to hold the necessary conversations (Do you understand English? My favorite color is blue. I love you.), but I'm happy with Seoul.
We took a van from the airport to our transit hotel ("Hotel Airport"... go figure)... it was crazy. The seats Diki and I sat in faced backwards, sans seatbelts, while our driver talked on a cell phone and drove at an average speed of 130 kmph (about 80 mph).
Aren't there speed limits in South Korea?
Anyway, we split hotel rooms (me and Diki in one, my parents in the other), and we just finished watching a really cool feature on the Discovery Channel (the only English channel (wish korean subtitles) here...) about the Romanov family (the family which the legend of Anastasia, as well as the Disney movie by the same name, is based upon)... very cool documentary, though they revealed that Anastasia had, in fact, been killed with the rest of her family (there goes that legend). It's still one of the most fascinating true stories I've ever heard, and it's cool that Alexi and Maria's bodies were never found. *_*
The beds here are hard as rock (sort of like sleeping on a warm hardwood floor, though the thought of hardwood floors is nice - Eric has a really nice hardwood floor in his uber-nice house (which I told him I'd steal one day)), but the pillows here make up for them. I'm still trying to figure out how to steal one without their noticing.
Oh, and because I know you care, I was going to call Ilse's cell phone around 5:00 this morning (equivalent to 3:00 PM on Monday), but I'm pretty sure it'd cost too much money. ~_~
Anyway, I believe today will be spent romping around Seoul. I'm going to try to find a j-pop CD by BoA to buy (if I can get my intentions across...). Meh.
And now, time for some replies, since I'm too lazy to write comments...
Ilse - It'd be really nice if you all could come and wait at the airport, but it's inthe middle of the day on Friday (in Chicago), so no. :P
Mer & Rae - I think I forgot to tell everone that I was leaving. I swear I'd told you guys, though... guess not. ~_~;; And yes, Rae, fluffiness is so nice... :D Have fun withyour non-Eric person and tell me everything that happens!
Glaive - ;_; Don't be jealous... I still love you, darling! It's just... it's just that...
GAHHHHHHHH, I LUFF ERIC!!!!! ^______^
Well, I have a 10-minute limit on the hotel computer and I'm pretty sure that's gone. I think my uncle in Indonesia has a computer with internet access, so I'll try to post when I get there, and even (hopefully) check my e-mail.
Sore ja...
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Date: 2004-01-19 19:11 (UTC)You sound like you're having fun!! XD My favorite color is blue too, doncha know. And you should deifnitely draw ME in St. Joe uniform on the return trip. Only....please don't cut my arm off. Heheh. *_*
OK. Fuzziness. Non-Eric and I went sledding today illegally, which was fun until we discovered it was illegal. Harharharhar. And we saw pretty foxes! They're so cute! I want one!
And Matt told me a story about how he used to keep frogs and fed them live crickets, and he kept a bag of them in his underwear drawer, and one day they got loose.... XDDDDDDDDDD
Anyway, glad you're having fun! Pretty Korea? Can I come next time? I'm pretty sure I could fit in a really large suitcase. *nodsnodsnods*
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Date: 2004-01-20 06:31 (UTC)Btw, did you notice the date on your entry? April 2, 2019! O_O Hehe, just thought you might want to know. ^_^
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Date: 2004-01-22 10:44 (UTC)I'm home sick, dammit. I got a cold or something yesterday and my mom won't let me go back to school tomorrow. (What is tomorrow, anyway?)
And darling, an international call on my cell phone is bad. At 5 AM is even worse.
Middle of the day on a Friday, eh? How bout we get Alex to drive us over in his boat, and we'll attack you as you enter your house?
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Date: 2004-01-23 15:47 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-25 11:25 (UTC)