Arival

After 24 hours of travel from my Grandpa's house in Santa Maria California I finally arived in Seoul, Korea, a city alive with traffic, commerce, and the blending of cultures. I made it through customs with no problems, found the bus I needed and made my way down town to Namsan Hostel my new home for the next 3 months. One of the people at the hostel met me outside where my taxi dropped me off and led me to my room that is about the size of my closet at home, but it is enough. The hall and rooms remind me of a ship from the carribean and the bathrooms have a showerhead with a drain in the floor, no separate tub or shower, it's kind of cool. I wandered the city today, signed up for my language classes and tried to find a sim card for my phone with no luck. The subway is easy to navigate and amazingly clean (much nicer than NY). I find it very empowering that a small town Colorado girl like me can ship herself half way around the world to one of the most densely populated cities and function perfectly well, I have found the communication barrier to be trying at times. It is also enlightening to be the only white person in a sea of Asians with everyone looking at you like, "are you lost?"