So on Saturday journey, I began my journey to middle earth, sorry I meant Daecheon. I first had to travel to Suwon which is 1.5 hours from my house with 4 transfers. To make matters worse, the trains were full of old people!!!! Now in Korea the old people aren't sweet. Nope! They are more strong that soilders with a iron will to match! The worse age group is 55-70. When they get a bit older they seem to turn sweet again.
After making it to Suwon and meeting the guy (Let's call him X as I can't spell his name. Taeyang maybe...). So X informed me he had been to a stag party the night before and needed to go home to change as he had not been home yet. I don't know why he hadn't text me to meet later but still.......I wanted to wait in the car, as I don't like meeting people parents as I get nervous. Older people still scare me just like when I was a kid (my mum trained me well) . X was like 'Noooo... come on up. My family are out'. So I did. I sat nervously on his couch watching a program in another language whilst he got changed. Then he mum came home (most Koreans live with families until they get married - some live with the mans family even after marriage though this is becoming less and less common)! I did the bow "annyeonghasyo etc'.
His mum reminded me of my mum. Offered me a drink and not taking no as a answer and worrying about the mess even though the apartment was clean.
We then met his friends and we for hamburgers (yuck! I hate fast food - apart from mcdonalds chips! yum!). It turned out he was driving us all to the beach (I hadn't a clue what was happening which seems to be like most things here). Omg! The traffic!! There is a reason you shouldn't travel within Korea unless by train!! The time it takes!!!
 |
| Blue skies at the rest stop |
When we finally made it, it was 5pm!! So I didn't really get to see the beach!! Maybe next summer I can go with friends. I finally saw girls!!! Yes! Girls!! After being stuck with 3 guys for most of the afternoon I was so happy. They were so friendly! Throughout the rest of the evening everyone made me feel so welcome and were so friendly. It was actually one of the best nights in Korea I have had so far.
We started off for home about 8pm so I didn't get to see them for long but I feel like I have met some new friends for life ^^.
I finally hit the pillow at 11.45pm!!!! Long day!!
 |
| Food |
 |
| Daecheon beach |
 |
| At Daecheon beach |
 |
| Daecheon beach |
 |
| Daecheon beach |
No comments:
Post a Comment