Hi my silent reader
long time no write, so I am back guys
Miss me? huh I have been 4 months here. Four months living in South Korea. Living in my dream country. Hehehe I wanted to throw back my stories. How was my first flight to Korea and how I met my new friends.
Lets back to
25 AUGUST 2015
My journey started from Solo (my lovely home town) then continued by train for one hour to Jogja.
Our family doesn't have a car so we called a cab. Since I brought many luggage so I sat between mum and sister thighs. Luckily, it was only 20 minutes and we arrived in Balapan Station
So we had to wait the train. It would depart at 3 pm We bought 6 tickets for grandpa, grandma, mum, dad, me, and my sister. Flying from Jogja Airport is more comfortable than Solo airport. Because the train station is near from the Airport. I cant imagine if my family have to accompany me to Solo airport which will cost more than 50000 rupiahs by cab.
I brought one big 30cm luggage, one 60ml backpack and small bag. My luggage was so damn hard. I didn't bring many things though. In the next stories, I knew why it was so heavy and I should haven't brought the big luggage one.
Let me introduce my friend and my scholarship partner. Call her Hana and she is from Jogja. We decided to meet up at Airport. Our flight to Jakarta would be depart at 6:10 pm so we met around 5pm . Then, we went to baggage check and checked in our ticket to get the boarding pass. 
It took one hour twenty minutes for the flight. You can notice that my lipstick already gone since it was the long stay one. However, we felt very excited. Fyi, They provided us Garuda ticket because it is one of Skypass member. So nice :)
Arrived in Jakarta around 7:30 pm. I had promise to meet the other Indonesian Scholar awardee in the airport but because we thought it was better to register baggage and check in first so we didn't wait for them. And then we got a problem. After waiting the economy line ( Korean Air divided three lines; one is the VVIP class ,business class (morning calm) and last, the economic class), the staff in counter informed us that our luggage were over weight. It should be only 23 kg. No more. Hana's luggage was around 24 and mine was around 26 kg. Actually we could move the things. Then we decided to wait other friends. One by one our friend came to the counter. They also got the same problem. Even their luggage are heavier than mine. We met the manager and started the discussion. The discussion wasn't going smooth. The baldy manager didn't want to listen our explanation and the discussion turned to a debate. Come on, we got information that we could seize up the baggage via email and why suddenly they could not provide it. Sshhh.. Thanks for our tante CL who finally won the debate over the manager.
Hope it would not happen next year. But the same discussion happened again in the next day when the second batch awardee checked in their tickets.
Sleeping is a must! Guys,I almost forget to say this. If you are strict with the food, I mean if you are vegetarian or want to get halal food, you can contact them by email prior your departure. My Moroccan friend did it and he ate halal food on the plane.
Welcome to Korea, the morning calm
This airport facilities are awesome so I don't deny if Incheon is the best airport in this world
My grandma can use this car ^^
They divided the line into two. One is for Korean passport and one is for foreigner
Actually they have another line for diplomatic passport
Here is the luggage claim. So big right?
And we do not need to wait our baggage. In Jakarta, it will take 30 minutes until one hour to wait our baggage.
After arrived in Incheon safely, we just filled in the customs list and gave it back to them. Then we have to go to our meeting points which were different for every Korean language course. Yeungnam University asked me to meet them in west meeting point. The good thing was they sent the picture so you will not get lost. I met my Malaysian friend there, three Malaysians and we took the same bus to Gyeongsan. They paid the ticket for us and it cost around 39000 won for each. hahha.
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| bus interior |
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| we stopped in two rest areas |
Seven eleven near our dorm. I noticed every dorm have their seven eleven kkkkk. And the elder who works there is so kind and like to have conversation with foreigner like me.
I found a domestic cat. Korean domestic cat isn't different with Indonesian domestic cat except the fur.It seems they have thick and long fur.
My first brunch was bibimbap and that was too much. Bibimbab here is a mix of vegetable, mushroom and fried egg. They also separate the rice. I only could eat rice not the mix veggies.
welcome to the subway life. Gyeongsan is located near Daegu;A metropolitan city in South Korea.
If i want to go to Down town in Daegu , just take the subway. It will take 30 minutes and stop for 13 stations (exclude the depart and arrival station). Living here is so comfortable. What I need to do is only walking and taking the subway. We can use T money and top up it at nearest convenient store on subway. Imagine if Solo has subway, so people can go to train station only by walk. they will leave their motorcycle at home. System will change behaviour not the opposite actually. I never imagine that I can walk every day wherever I go. Providing bus is also good improvement but it just stop only in several places. I wish someday my city can be improved like Daegu.
Daegu only has three lines.
I noticed they put a lot of poems or stories in the public place
See, this is a rare thing that I can find in my hometown. This elder woman cleaned the subway mall floor. There was a sticky thing and she grabbed a tool to clean it.
OMG
That's all what I can tell you on my first day living in Korea . Keep reading my blog because I will update it with another post soon :)
