It wasn't too long ago when i left my house n started towards changi airport to leave for Korea.. But it feels like I've been away for a very very long time.. i still rmb how i felt b4 the trip. how quite reluctant i was to leave my familiar environment n go to another country wif just one person i really knew.. of coz i was promised that the trip wld b full of fun n laughters, of joy n excitement.. but with those promises came also the stress n pressure of returning from there, the same way i was when i left.. it felt as if everyone was looking forward to some change in me when i returned.. it was that pressure that started to make me feel uneasy about going there the last few days b4 the trip.. but in the end i managed to finish packing n mounted on my brother in law's car n went on wif it..
i rmb meeting jieying, angielina n sophia upon arriving at the airport.. how strange i felt at that time as i've only seen angie once somewhere in school b4 n sophia doesn't look familiar at all even from a simple peek on her facebook profile through the group page.. it was also only at this time that i knew who exactly i was going to b sharing the plane with, for i felt that it was unnecessary to find out b4 hand.. i guess i cld say that i was really quite unprepared for this trip n i din feel the need to change that fact. so upon joey's arrival, we checked in n boarded rather uneventfully which of coz is a good thing in this sense..
on the plane i got to know joey slightly better as we took seats together.. prior to the trip i only knew her as someone in my tutorial class.. so we talked alittle on the plane b4 switching to airplane mode n took to our own worlds in adjacent seats.. we had to transit at shanghai b4 boarding the plane for Korea n i finally got to take the window seat for the very first time on that plane.. its interesting to look out the window of the plane but just as tiring to keep looking out so i concluded that it wasn't entirely much fun taking the window seat either..
upon arriving in Korea proper, we met up wif beverly, fong kay n diana, 2 of which i knew from 1st sem's tutorial class and the latter someone entirely new.. they arrived a few hours earlier than us but were waiting for sophia's arrival so we travelled from the airport together towards our new home to be... i couldn't get my 3 korean phones that i borrowed from my frens in singapore to work so i decided to go on without a phone whilst jieying, joey, sophia and angie rented phones at the airport.. so much for the only preparation i had b4 hand..
we reached yonsei's main gate but had no idea how to reach the north gate or our dorm.. or at least i had no idea.. haha.. diana was holding a map n seemed to know wats going on so i waited for a new direction to b made.. in the end we caught cabs that brought us up to our dorms n despite a little drizzle, thankfully of coz.. coz anything heavier wldnt haf been fun with all our luggages n stuff..
we settled in some time later n since i was the only guy in that group we had to part ways at the dorm n i headed to my room by myself.. turns out that wat we were promised of sharing a room wif a korean was utter bull as i wld b sharing the room wif Daniel Lacson.. someone who was supposed to b sharing the room with diana.. haha.. but he wasnt in the room when i reached so after settling my bags in place, i went back downstairs to regroup with the rest..
we went out for dinner somewhere nearby, but it wasn't exactly nearby coz we walked quite some ways out of north gate b4 eventually settling for a simple resturant.. i remember the first thing that i had in Korea was the 알밥 which wasn't too bad.. so after dinner we walked back to our dorm n split up for the rest of the nite..
i tried to get the internet in my room going but just couldn't do it no matter wat i tried.. so i gave up trying n took a bathe n waited for my room mate to return from wherever he was so as to ask him if he had internet access n whether he was any guru at these matters.. luckily he din come back too late n turned out that he was wif most of the other guys so i got introduced to junzhang n jia quan n ben proper b4 junzhang helped me settle my internet issues.. think i met david a while later as well n thus got to know the other 5 guys that i wld b sharing the same country for the next 4 weeks n more..