Hello and welcome to this little blog.
You know that feeling, right? This nagging feeling that you should have done something long ago. But you just didn’t. And then a day passed. A week. A month. But now you’re going to start. You just need to…
Anyways. Welcome to this blog. I will write about my stay abroad in South Korea, and all the impressions that I get. And when I am back, I will see if I continue!
That leg room means business.
I have seen a lot of travel videos on South Korea (and Japan, and other places). I just like to watch them, they are relaxing. Just a night train with a dude who does not talk much, or walking through Seoul at night. I wanted to do that too. More on how that went later…
I generally and genuinely do not think that you have to make experiences yourself to learn something. You can learn from others. See what they live. But there is some strange kind of danger to that. You are not living this yourself, it is just an illusion. And we all know what social media does to our brains.
Korean Cable Management.
So I came to see for myself. Just wanted to go somewhere far away for once.
And you know what? It is not that bad. People are the same everywhere, just a little different. Or as they say in Thailand: „Same same, but different.“
The Koreans I met so far were nice. One smuggled my sweatshirt through the airport control, after I forgot it there and could not go back. The older (probably rich?) man in the airplane was very amused when I put on the complementary face mask and took it on himself to teach me how to eat Korean food correctly. It was a fun flight!
I was so lucky, too. I immediately got to know one of the others from Germany, when we met up at the airport
She is really nice, funny and a bit stressed (and very small). Stressed because the issues immediately came in swinging after landing.
But nothing it was nothing we could not help each other out with. I hope we can become friends, I really want to.
And I want to get the people here. Despite being an introvert.
She helped me make that smoothie on day one to cool off at Daejeon Station. I will forever treasure this memory, even if I got to treasure the smoothie only for a couple of seconds. So good.
Speaking of desperation. Imagine getting on the bus in South Korea after a long flight, only to get yelled at by the bus driver who refuses to switch to English. Wasn’t me who got yelled at. Never understood why, either. Old men don’t care.
Generally, the days here have been very, very long. Koreans work hard and are incredibly organized. Both not my forte. Also, just because you work long and hard does not mean you get a lot of work done. But more on all that later!
Not pictured in the beautiful view of Daejeon: The days are long, hot and humid.
Lastly, something for the nerds: This blog runs on wordpress. It is selfhosted at home (pls dont pull the plug, mom!) on a TrueNAS Electric Eel system via Dockge docker. Reverse proxy with caddy, cloudflare for protection with regular IP address updates.
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