Well, look around for a sea of black hair. I know I'm on the right flight for sure now as I sit and wait for the other passengers to join me in the waiting area. Lol, it just struck me as funny.
Slight delay at the Erie airport again. Part heavy plane (kind of feel partly responsible for that one)and part fog. Arrived in Detroit with no problem. Saying my 2nd goodbyes quickly and getting ready to call Verizon to suspend my phone. Trying to give myself a good 30 minutes for that because I've recently learned they are an incompetent cellular service and I expect I'll have to go over the whole 'I'm leaving the country for work' issue with them one last time. Anyway, everything seems to be on track with no issues :)
I will let everyone know when I arrive in Seoul via email/facebook if I can.
Bonus - I found that I may have wifi on the plane so that will make the trip easier!
Some interesting information: there are no street names or house numbers clearly marked in South Korea. Yeah, so this should make it very interesting right?
Read this http://www.teachkoreanz.com/living/address.htm
In Korea addresses seems to exist in name only. Over most of Korea, there are almost no signs labeling of street names, in fact, most streets do not have names at all. Nor do houses have numbers on the outside, though every house does in fact have an official number. Unfortunately, even these 'secret numbers' mean little - numbers are assigned to houses when they are built, so house No 27 could be next to house No 324, and so on.
Even Koreans find it close to impossible to locate an address. Pity the poor postal workers who must actually track down these buildings! On the other hand, the system (or lack of a system) provides a form of job security for letter carriers - no-one dares to fire them since only they can interpret the otherwise meaningless addresses which appear on envelopes.
How about that. Life is going to be really interesting for the next 72 hours :)
Trying to learn Te Korean language will be a must. So I will start out slow: 안녕히 계세요.
That is goodbye. And that looks to be extremely complicated as well. Yikes :/
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