Little taste of Japan

Holy hand grenade (An old Combs expression). Seoul is unbelievably amazing. I'm sure it's because I've never been out of the country and everything is just new and exciting. Living here for the past 5 days has been very fun. I don't even really know where to start. The trip here was an adventure as well, since my flight was delayed 3 hours on the tarmac in Detroit due to weather. I missed my connection from Japan to Seoul, so the airline (Northwest) put all 300+ passengers in a hotel with free dinner and breakfast, so I wasn't complaining too much. I will say that the 12.5 hour flight wasnt so comfortable, but I was able to get up and walk around, chill with the flight attendants, and fall asleep throughout to pass the time better.

Once we got to Japan some of us got together and decided to go out in Narita, because we were at least 2 hours by taxi to Tokyo. We ended up walking down the street to a little bar, only armed with "hai" and "arregato", which respectively means yes and thank you, I think. So that lead to me saying Hai to a very skank glass of whiskey, but Asahi made up for that. I was humored by the music that Uzi coined as 50's occupation era. Koreans and Japanese both love to play American music everywhere. Even as I'm sitting in Holly's Coffee, there are christmas classics playing. It was really fun to just meet up with other travelers, going to all different parts of asia: Bangkok, Beijing, Manila, and Seoul. So we made the best of our lay-over. In this picture new friends (Will, Taryn, Uzi).

Riding an Asian airline was way better than Northwest. I met a cool dude on the plane, Joseph, on his way to Taejon. He helped me with some basic Korean phrases.

I can't really complain about anything here. The people are way nice and my job is fairly simple and I get a free nice apartment on the 14th floor in Seocho-gu, im not sure yet which dong (neighborhood of course). I get to walk in at night and look out to a nice little cityscape.

So far I haven't been able to do many touristy things. I'm starting slow and exploring my neighborhood before I really over extend myself. When I go out with friends I don't worry about getting home, but the language barrier is intimidating at times. However I am getting better very fast. Last night I managed to hail a taxi and get home by myself after too much soju, which is also why this post is going to be short.

more to come.....