In it to win it

So I'm back in Korea for the long haul now. I got into the hotel around 10pm Monday night after leaving Pittsburgh around 9am Sunday morning... such a long trip. This trip felt longer than the one last time too. I'm not sure if its because I knew what I was in for this time, I didn't sleep as much, or I went PIT-Atlanta-Seoul-Pusan instead of PIT-Detroit-Tokyo-Pusan. The main benefit of the first trip is that I felt like I was going the right direction the whole time.

As you can see above I flew into Seoul first, so I had to go through customs there before flying onto Pusan. Customs wasn't too bad, it was pretty well organized and easy to get through. The harder part was finding where to check-in to my next flight. I'm sure that the Seoul airport is well laid out and easy to navigate, if you know the language, but I found myself running around a lot trying to find the right counter and security checkpoints. If I didn't have three hours there it would have been pretty close. On the whole it was a nice airport, but I think that I will take the Northwest flights in the future. Especially on the return trip, since Japan doesn't seem to be worried about swine flu coming from South Korea (no reported cases yet).

Yesterday (tuesday) I spent all day moving into my new apartment and getting that sorted out. Most everything had been moved in before I got there and the landlord/relator had arranged for everything to be turned on and hooked up for me. That was a great help, less things for me to worry about. When I was moving in I noticed one of the cabinets was broken, but that should be taken care of sometime this week.

I also picked up most of the stuff that I will need to live in the appartment yesterday, however I missed a few things so its looking like I'll go back today or tomorrow to pick them up. Thankfully the Lotte Mart (walmart type store) is connected to my building, so its easy to get everything and get it up to my appartment. Especially since I don't have a car yet. That should be next week sometime.

I am realizing that I need to have a cell phone right away though. It seems like most all Koreans carry at least one and that is their primary mode of contact (vs email), so I may have to get on that tonight too.

I haven't been too jet lagged from this trip, however I did sleep from about 4-10:30pm yesterday. I guess that I was more tired than I thought that I was. Hopefully I can stay awake as long as possible today and try to reset my sleep schedule to a more normal time. If not there's always staying awake and talking to people in the interwebz at 4am. Pictures of the apartment will be up sometime after I have more stuff in it. Its pretty bare right now, so maybe by the end of the week or so.