Saturday, May 30, 2009

arrival 2

ok, I finally arrived in Incheon airport in Korea after a harrowing experience in catching the flight in LA. In LAX, I had rush, didn't eat, I had to go back through security and wait in line to print out another ticket. Oh, did I mention that I had to clear across the airport for my next flight. I went straight for awhile, then went outside to inside where all the international desks were, to check luggage etc. So, after getting a ticket, I got to the gate and the first class was already seating, so that was close.
More coming, including food on Korean Airlines and my first taste of Kimchi.

Korean attendants wore green, each headrest had touch screen tv. You could watch a movie, choose from about 10 full ones, games like putt putt. You can also see the where the plane is on the journey. They kept bring orange juice or water, a fellow teacher here told me you can ask for something else. I tried to restrain from too much water, b/c I had a window seat, and the 2 people next to me were asleep.

We had a meal, not sure what this is called, lunch or supper, b/c we ate at about midnight at one time zone or another. Choice is beef or rice. I got the beef, which had beef chunks, mashed potatoes, peas and carrots. Whilst the rice had a rice bowl.
For breakfast, this was about 2am Korean time, we arrived at 4am. Choice was omelate or rice pouridge. Omelet had folded egg, link sausage, strawberry yogurt, grapefruit and tater tots.

Plane landed at 4:15, got off plane then had to go thru a health screening. 2 people with masks on, put this plastic tubular thing close to your neck, I guess to see your temp. Then I went to collect my luggage and there was a white board on the corral, that had my name and something to do with my luggage. A employee I presume nearby said to go talk to people at desk over there. So I did and they sent one bag yesterday, other should get here today.

The bus ticket booth opened at 6am, so I just did around and watched tv, they had french open rerun, former president of korea funeral procession. So I bought a bus ticket for 6:20 a.m. The bus trip lasted about 4 and half hours.

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