hej bea

Hello everyone. Now it’s been four days since I arrived here! I’ve actually been busy… Flew with Korean Air for the first time, and made a stopover in Amsterdam. The flight from there to Incheon was actually really awful. I managed to catch a cold right before leaving, so my nose was running and shit. And so you’re sitting down for 10 hours, trying to sleep it away but it’s difficult when you’re tall and got long legs. I’m pretty fit but after some hours it does get very tiring nevertheless. And as if that wasn’t enough, I got this sensation of blocked ears. For the rest of the day, and nothing helped. Never experienced this before. I even started to get worried, because I couldn’t hear if the tap was dripping or the traffic outside my window!

The scholarship people drove me from the airport (Incheon) all the way here to the dormitory. It took an hour and I almost fell asleep in the car. Arrived to the dorm, and everything worked out fine. So far. When looking at the name plates of my room I was confused at first, worrying if I got the right room, but it turned out that they just didn’t have the time to change it from the previous tenants. Was pretty scared to open the door, what if I got it wrong? But it was my room, and the right side of it was empty which meant that was mine. I already knew that I was gonna share the room with another girl – all of her stuff was there but not herself. I was trying to create an image of what kind of person she was from her stuff but it was pretty difficult.

So the next morning I woke up when my roomie came in through the door! She was Korean and said that she spent the night at her parents. We talked a bit and she said that she studied food management at Kyunghee University. Forgot to ask what year she was.

Anyway, she seemed nice and understands English pretty well. She said she studied in London for a year, but we still mostly communicate in Korean. It’s pretty weird but I feel that all of the language courses have started to sink in now. I understand now that even how much you try to force into your brain, it still needs time to process it as well.