It is not a dream… or a good thought! I am in Il-WOOnderland! South Korea! I am in Seoul! I just can’t believe it still… pinch… Ouch! It’s real! I am so thankful!!!… except for the 15 hour flight! My body does not ever want to sit again! I tried standing sometimes by the bathroom to relieve my poor legs… but to sit for 15 hours straight is brutal… no matter what you do…! And I couldn’t sleep much… I was… well… too excited!
My first impressions… from the window: WOOw it’s such a big city… look at all the buildings!!! That’s what 27,000,000 people look like from the air… And we haven’t gotten to the real city part yet…
Incheon airport is huge! So many lights…so sparkly clean… my eyes hurt! There are so many signs… so many words I don’t understand... and the design is so Space like! I felt I landed in another planet… look:
Jung Il-woo… I’ve seen you here… in photos…!!! Cr. Various
WOOw! That was a nice Il-woo break, now back to my story…
Eventually I made it to the subway station… I felt I was going to board a rocket ship… take a look:
I know right?! WOOw!!! My biggest challenge was getting a ticket to go to Seoul… but I did it! I figured it out. This is what the machine where you get your ticket looks like. my mind was so tired I read everything like three times! They have signs in Korean, English Japanese and Chinese! Even in the train!
And this is the subway station…
I decided to eat something… I should try and bring my body 13 hours into the future… dinner time… and my first drink… tadaaaan! It’s a banana milk! I was so excited to finally hold one of those in my hands! In Boston I buy the small tetrapack ones… but this is the real thing (even it it’s made out of plastic for this once!… I will save it and bring it back to Boston!)
Oh! the flavor brought me back right to:
And this pinky goodness:
What a sweetheart…
Oh! I’m so tired…I’m off to the land of Jung Il-woo… wait… I am in the land of Jung Il-woo! How thankful I am… and I can celebrate it the way I always wanted to…
Until tomorrow… which is tomorrow of tomorrow in Boston… yeah I’m pretty confused!
I will leave you with a song that expresses exactly the happiness that I feel in this moment as I am finally in Il-WOOnderland!