Tuesday, February 16, 2010
seoul arrival
I just got into the hostel (Jin's Guesthouse) I'm staying at and it's pretty nice. Finally, I have free wi-fi and a bed and I'm loving it. The thing is, the journey here was not too pleasant and really stupid on my part. I got into Incheon around 11PM local time and was going to spend the night in one of the airport dorms ($15 a night) but then I heard that the airport limousines would run til 3AM, so I thought I could catch one. But then this dumbass guy comes up and says that the bus I was suppose to take stopped running and then he took my suitcase and said that the only way to get to my destination was by taxi. I don't know why, but I just followed him. I knew that taxis would be around $70-$90 but I was dead tired so I just went with it. The thing is, this guy got lost around 3 times. He even stopped at a police station for directions and still got lost. This moron charges by time so all the while I was waiting in the cab, it was charging me a huge chunk of change. So this idiotic taxi ride cost me $160, but I eventually ended up at this pretty swank hostel and it's only $19 a night. But in all in all, I should've stayed in the airport dorm, taken the first bus in the morning and gotten to this hostel on my own accord. If I had stuck to the original plan, I'd probably have only spent $45 vs. $180. Oh well, bye bye Chinese new years money. I didn't spend you on anything worthwhile :(
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What a dumbbutt. I mean, he just picked up your suitcase w/o even asking??? Retard. I'd kick him to where the sun don't shine. Pshhh those taxi ppl are conners. I bet he got lost on purpose. That jerk. :p
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That sucks!!
ReplyDeleteNow you are doing the asia learn program right? Werent they suppose to pick you up and take you to the hotel? Sorry im curious because I am doing the asialearn program next semester.
Im doing the Asialearn program in the spring as well, and I thought they were supposed to provide transport and a hotel for when we get there
ReplyDeletehey guys. sorry for the late reply, I forgot the password to this blog. I'm assuming you know now that they picked you up. I just got there a couple days early therefore the coordinators hadn't arrived yet so I was basically on my own
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