Ok, so I’ve been procrastinating a LOT because I knew it would be a lot to write and…I am lazy.

So the first day we flew in and left Japan at about 12:50 in the afternoon and then arrived at Incheon Airport at like…I’m not really sure. Maybe around 2:30. It’s a really nice airport though, and the flight was on a new and nice plane. I watched a Korean film with English subtitles. It was fairly interesting. We took a taxi to Seoul with our luggage and stuff, and that was about a one hour drive. Taxis are cheaper there…but still, long way to go by taxi (SUV taxi to boot). We dropped our stuff off at the hotel finally, then went to the ‘Korea House’. It’s geared towards foreigners and is very traditional styled. So we ate a very traditional Korean dinner, complete with Kimchi. If you want to know what that is, simply read about it.  After that we watched an hour long performance which highlighted some of Korea’s cultural dances and stuff.  It was really interesting, and much better than I thought it would be.

Then we went to sleep in the Hotel and stuff.  Keisuke and I shared a room, and my host parents shared a room.  Same as Tokyo, and it was really nice.  We stayed at the Grand Hyatt and all the channels save a few were in English so I got to watch TV I understood!

It was really weird hearing Korean though.  I am very comfortable listening to Japanese, even if I couldn’t understand it, because it’s what I’m used to hearing.  Korea sounded so…foreign, and I realized how used to Japan I am!  I also used Japanese a lot.  I felt more comfortable knowing that the Koreans couldn’t understand me and think I had bad Japanese.  There were also TONS of foreigners in Korea.  So I justed wanted to show off my skillz.  Most were businessmen who were getting talked to in English.  This American Asian guy asked me something, and it really surprised me.  American English coming from someone Asian is just really…surprising to me now, because I’m very used to hearing Asian people using Japanese English.  So yeah, it’s kind of a jolt when you’re so used to a certain dialect of English.

Anyways, the second day we did more stuff in Korea, and I got to see JIN!  Which was really awesome!  We talked a lot (in English).  My host family took Jin to lunch and we had a Korean-style barbecue thing.  They have mini grills in the center of the tables.   So that was really great.  Then we went to the top of Building 67, named so because of how many stories it has, and looked out at Seoul.  That was really cool.  Then we went our separate ways, and I said goodbye and stuff, but I really enjoyed seeing Jin!

After that Keisuke and I stayed in our hotel room for about two hours while my host parents went to the spa.  He slept while I watched English TV.

For dinner we went to an Indian restaurant and ate the buffet, which was really good.  I have discovered that Nan is the most awesome bread out there.  So that was really good.  Then we went and saw a street festival thing that was going on, with tons and tons of foreigners.

And the last day we were supposed to go to an Amusement park but it was closed.  That was sad, but we saw some other interesting stuff.  Then we flew home, but the plane was a little late, and there was some turbulence.

My host mother speaks some Korean by the way.  And I am so tired right now, so I apologize for any spelling or grammar mistakes.