Traveling is really not my cup of tea when in a foreign country :/ As wonderful and exciting all my new experiences have been, the days when I have to travel and move from place to place with all my heavy luggage are equally as frightening and difficult. It's like both sides of the coin. I have to rely entirely on friends to translate, which is also difficult because I can only contact them when I have wifi...e.g. NOT while I'm actually traveling, which is when I need help the most lol.
When I thought it over I realized it's scary on a different kind of level than usual scary. I had carefully considered all this when I decided to travel solo out here and taken into consideration I'd have to travel alone too. But it's not that I'm afraid of being alone, afraid of traveling to unknown places, afraid of getting lost, etc. Its not as concrete as that...tt's just terrifying on a base level to be so completely isolated (no language, no phone, no wifi) somewhere so unfamiliar, having to rely entirely on luck many times just to get somewhere. I should've saved the cross-country traveling for my next visit here and stuck to Seoul this time...well now I know :) Thankfully I have my HERO Yeji 언니 who keeps saving my silly foreigner life over and over again haha. I don't know how I'm ever going to repay her at this point...
When I thought it over I realized it's scary on a different kind of level than usual scary. I had carefully considered all this when I decided to travel solo out here and taken into consideration I'd have to travel alone too. But it's not that I'm afraid of being alone, afraid of traveling to unknown places, afraid of getting lost, etc. Its not as concrete as that...tt's just terrifying on a base level to be so completely isolated (no language, no phone, no wifi) somewhere so unfamiliar, having to rely entirely on luck many times just to get somewhere. I should've saved the cross-country traveling for my next visit here and stuck to Seoul this time...well now I know :) Thankfully I have my HERO Yeji 언니 who keeps saving my silly foreigner life over and over again haha. I don't know how I'm ever going to repay her at this point...
I've encountered other foreign travelers of all kind during my trip here but they are always adults, usually a couple. Today I met two foreign kids! There were two cute little French boys (twins) and their dad on the bus with me going back to Seoul. It was so fun to listen to them jabbering away at each other in French. It really puts a new perspective on different cultures because they are still regular little boys climbing like monkeys all over the bus and irritating the adjummas even if they are fluent in a different language.
It's awesome being back in the city with all the signs, crazy colors, cars, people, subways, buses, shops, restaurants, and just THINGS. Everywhere :) After such a nice relaxing week by at my beachside resort, I'm ready for the hustle and bustle of the city again. On to Hotel Cozy Myeongdong!