So Saturday started out in panic because I couldn't locate my passport. After a frantic 4-hour search, I found it in my printer scanner. The bright side of this almost disaster was that it made my packing so much less stressful since I realized that everything else I was packing was replaceable if necessary. So as long as I had my passport, everything would be okay. It made me realize that the daunting task of turning this:
Into this:
Was not as surmountable as a task as I had previously imagined. The fact it took me 2.5 days to do it... a minor detail.
So fast forward to Tuesday morning. I took a flight to Chicago at 6:45 in the morning and then had a 4 hour layover. This layover gave me some time to take things in and led me to the three following ponderings:
1. Why can't airports have free wifi? When my tickets cost like $800-$900 one way, surely the airport can afford wifi....
2. Why do the Chicago bathrooms smell like alka seltzer? Did they all catch a cold?
3. Only Koreans would take photos and fawn over their airline kiosk area.
Anyway, although the flight from KC to Chicago sucked due to splitting ear pain, the Chicago to Seoul flight definitely made up for it. Why? Because I got a whole row of seats to myself...on an international flight...lasting 13 hours. It was like first class...without it being first class. I got to spread out, lay down, and just sleep for the first third of the flight. As a side note, the airplane food was impressive for being airline food. I'm super impressed with Korean Air.
Okay, so we get to Seoul at like 4 pm in the afternoon (2 am Kansas time). We got to hang around the airport for almost 3 hours waiting for all the flights to arrive, but it went super quickly because it was just a mob of us all trying to get to know each other.
At around 7 pm we went to the hotel and it was super nice. We were all in awe at how comfortable our accommodations were. It really put us all in a good mood because we all hoped it was a sign of what was to come. We all got dinner together at the mall that was next door/connected? to the hotel. We all felt it was a shame we couldn't stay there longer because, well first of all, we had to wake up at 4 am the next morning and we all wanted more sleep, and despite our hopes, we weren't wanting to bet too much on our dorms in Expo Town being as nice as the hotel.
The before and after pics of your room... O_O
ReplyDeleteAnyway, sounds like it'll be a blast! Aside from waking up at 4 in the morning... You don't have to do that every day, do you?
(Oh, and just in case you didn't guess it already, this is Sarah Henry. ^_^)
That was only that day due to flights. Our training usually starts around 9 am and once the expo opens our morning shifts will start at 8 am. So kind of early, but I can't really complain.
DeleteAnd yeah I'm just glad I got it all cleaned because it would have sucked to come home in December and spent break cleaning my room lol.