Day 2 in Korea – Success!
Make sure you read Day 1 Post first!In the afternoon after finally getting some sleep I knocked on my neighbors door. My boss said that my co-worker lives there and he could help me out with what I needed. He wasn’t home. Looks like I’m on my own.
First off I needed food. My dollars wouldn’t work, but my Visa might! I walked a few blocks and found a bakery that sold some sandwiches. I gave the shop owner my credit card and my hungriest look. Success! I decided to push my luck. “Do you know where the subway is?” He didn’t speak english.
As I walked back into my neighborhood I stopped by a large building to see if could pick-up wireless internet on my iPhone. I wanted to check my email. The previous night I sent an email to a girl named Jyung Hee that I saw on MySpace. In the email I told her I just got to Korea and I know no one. Basically I told her I’m a lost little boy who needs a hot Korean girl to show him around. It worked, she said she would like to meet up with me that evening.
I desperately wanted to find the the subway. If I could find that I would know where I was on a map and it would be my ticket to the entire city. I went back to my apartment and grabbed my iPhone(the phone part doesn’t work here), camera, sandwich and decided to go out and figure out where the hell I was. I was not going to get lost because I had no clue how I would find my way back when I don’t know where I live in the first place. After walking about a mile into the city I saw a road sign in english that said Yangjae, and it pointed left. I thought I remembered an email to me mentioning Yangjae as being a subway station. I went left for a mile and found Yangjae subway station. This was huge! I felt like I just found the key to the entire city. Now I can go anywhere, and I can also find where I am on a map now.
On the way back to my apartment I took a pic of a bus sign(it was Korean characters) and sent it to Jyung Hee hoping she could identify my location and I wouldn’t have to walk the 2 miles back to Yangjae. Yea, I know I’m lazy.
She couldn’t tell where I was by the pic so I had to walk back to Yangae that evening to meet her. We had a great time that evening and she hung out with me a lot that first weekend. She showed me how to…
- Take a bus to Yangjae
- Exchange Dollars to Won
- Find E-mart (Korean Wal-mart)
- Use the Subway
- Drink Soju
- Order beer in Korean – Mekju Juciao
Thanks Jyung Hee!
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