Out in the Country

A found a piece that I had written over a year ago about my first arrival to Busan...here it is...

OUT of the Country

I have been in Korea for 9 days now. Its amazing how fast time seems to go here already for me. I want to do a quick wrap up because I don’t know how much time I will have to write adequate stories in the near future.

I arrived 2 Sundays ago with no hassles or delays. I got my baggage and went through customs just like before but this time with a sense of familiarity. I got on the bus in order to meet my associate trainer for my three day orientation program. Unfortunately along the way the bus driver lost my baggage and my ride didn’t pick me up. His wedding anniversary was more important and he couldn’t have scheduled someone else. Instead he made me wander around the streets for 2 hours looking for the Samsung motel where I would stay for my first 3 days in Korea. I was livid.

Orientation was fun! I was hanging out with mainly British people but also a few other foreigners all of whom were decent folks and a pleasure to have met them. After this stint was finished I was given a KTX ticket and headed to Busan where I was to meet up with my gf and also my new job site. KTX is the fastest train in Korea.

Christmas! That was the best day in Korea because it was the day I was looking forward to seeing all year. My happiness of seeing my gf get off the train was speechless. We had some good food even though I am still getting used to the time difference and we shopped a little. Christina bought me some nice shirts and pants for my job. They look really good on me^^

I got a new phone it’s a pre-paid phone it cost me a total of 100 dollars and I will have to add more on it later so I am saving the minutes right now.

Work looks to be alright. I will have 8 classes a day for the month of January when I will be officially starting.

This past weekend I went to Daegu and met my girlfriend again there. Daegu was always a nice getaway but I hope that we can do more in Busan or Seoul with each other. Daegu is a good place to go shopping and eating only I think.

I fell asleep on the train on the way back to Busan and was awakened by a passenger as they were all getting off. Busan is the final destination and I think I was the last person off the train. If they didn’t wake me I would have went back to Seoul later that night. The final run.

This ends that story but it makes me remember what it means to be a traveller again and shows me a shadow of my former self as I began to slowly adjust to here. Sadly all of those days and times are over but I am continually disembarking on a new journey..yet again I am soon going to set foot out towards Yeonsan.