As fancy as the airport was, I was 8 hours into the layover, and I was SUPER BORED! I ate, I slept, I went online and wrote an update, but still I had TIME! Finally, I MET a friend who I could communicate too! Yay!!!
Her nickname was Polly, and she was from Hong
Kong, going to Cairo, Egypt. How cool is that? Her boyfriend would meet her up in Egypt later but she had left first. Her English was really good. She also spoke Cantonese, and so did a some of the workers in the airport. So I guess at the airport, they are super trying to promote Korean culture, and there were at least 3 or 4 of these Korean Cultural Heritage Sites where you can do activities that are related to Korean culture for free and they highly encourage it. Well, Polly and I were watching this pair play the flute and the ....don't remember what it's called. It has a lot of strings on it, and they are plucked, and the woman who was playing it was playing chords while the flute was mostly playing the melody. The string instrument reminds me of the Vietnamese instrument (maybe it's the same) called the Dan Tranh. They were playing a song called Secret Garden, which was very beautiful I found the song on YouTube: Song from a Secret Garden http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPl1ZnKfWA0&feature=related). Then when they asked if the audience wanted to try (there were only 4 of us sitting down), Polly and I were the only ones who were willing to try and they handed us a "Korean flute" called something that starts with a T, but unfortunately I don't remember. It was ours to take home too...again, extremely trying to promote Korean culture.
Turns out Polly and I BOTH had 12 hour layovers and BOTH had 4 hours left! It was like we were meant for each other...hahaha. So then we tried on Korean clothing together, made fans together, did this blank ink art together (I wish I was better at remembering foreign names, but I'm not), and just looked around the airport and at the other Korean Cultural Heritage Sites. Good times. We exchanged emails and eventually departed at our gates.
While hanging out together, we also met a Filipino guy from Oakland and another guy from Delhi, India going to Tokyo.
P.S. I will post pictures when I figure out a way how to load them to my computer. I don't have the chord that connects the camera to the laptop. My friend calls it "product lock-in" because Sony purposely makes their things specific to their products so that the standard wire doesn't fit or work to connect it to the laptop. I'm hoping that someone in VASI (the program I'm going to in VN) has a Sony camera. Sorry folks for now.
Her nickname was Polly, and she was from Hong
Kong, going to Cairo, Egypt. How cool is that? Her boyfriend would meet her up in Egypt later but she had left first. Her English was really good. She also spoke Cantonese, and so did a some of the workers in the airport. So I guess at the airport, they are super trying to promote Korean culture, and there were at least 3 or 4 of these Korean Cultural Heritage Sites where you can do activities that are related to Korean culture for free and they highly encourage it. Well, Polly and I were watching this pair play the flute and the ....don't remember what it's called. It has a lot of strings on it, and they are plucked, and the woman who was playing it was playing chords while the flute was mostly playing the melody. The string instrument reminds me of the Vietnamese instrument (maybe it's the same) called the Dan Tranh. They were playing a song called Secret Garden, which was very beautiful I found the song on YouTube: Song from a Secret Garden http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPl1ZnKfWA0&feature=related). Then when they asked if the audience wanted to try (there were only 4 of us sitting down), Polly and I were the only ones who were willing to try and they handed us a "Korean flute" called something that starts with a T, but unfortunately I don't remember. It was ours to take home too...again, extremely trying to promote Korean culture.Turns out Polly and I BOTH had 12 hour layovers and BOTH had 4 hours left! It was like we were meant for each other...hahaha. So then we tried on Korean clothing together, made fans together, did this blank ink art together (I wish I was better at remembering foreign names, but I'm not), and just looked around the airport and at the other Korean Cultural Heritage Sites. Good times. We exchanged emails and eventually departed at our gates.
While hanging out together, we also met a Filipino guy from Oakland and another guy from Delhi, India going to Tokyo.
P.S. I will post pictures when I figure out a way how to load them to my computer. I don't have the chord that connects the camera to the laptop. My friend calls it "product lock-in" because Sony purposely makes their things specific to their products so that the standard wire doesn't fit or work to connect it to the laptop. I'm hoping that someone in VASI (the program I'm going to in VN) has a Sony camera. Sorry folks for now.
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