Its got Seoul, man!

Trip Start Aug 30, 2005

Trip End Aug 29, 2006

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Flag of Korea Rep. Seoul, Korea Rep.
Thursday, September 1, 2005

That was a flight I would prefer not to repeat, except for a few brief intervals. A flight full of weeping Korean children in a confined space for 12 hours and I might actually serve that posionous Air Canada food to an infant. Devilish.

On the flight I did meet a Korean business man by the name of Kab, who is president of Southbay Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) University in Vancouver and Los Angeles. Brandy I got his card for you. But he gave me a plethora of knowledge regarding Korea. He even told me to lose some weight! Seriously! However, he did offer to treat me at his campus in Seoul if I was in either poor or good health. He was impressed that one of my family members actually practises accupuncture - Good on you Kels!

But then the flight ended and the smog and humidity came on hard, like a fat kid on a cheeseburger

Homestay Movie

. The supervisor, vice principle and primary Korean English Teacher met me after the spanish-style inqusition at immigration - all of whom to my relief are extremely pleasant individuals. Then the unpleasant two and a half hour trip out of Seoul, with a full bladder and visciously cold air (for those from Edmonton you know when I say its cold, its friggin cold) conditioning on the bus, happened. I was in the process of dying when they offer to take me out for Korean food. So I didn't die; I went to the restroom, thawed out and ate. It was good. Oh and the sun sets so much earlier than in Edmonton which is odd for me - like at 6:30PM or it could have been the smog.

Then they told me that I have no apartment and that I would have to stay with Alice, the Korean English teacher. I agreed as I was to friggin tired to try arguing. They put me on a stone bed, which was unusually comfortable for stone - maybe its the Korean stone, and I passed out.