Internetless in Seoul

March 09, 2009 00:46 +0000 | Korea 1

So I landed in Seoul last night, so I thought that I'd post here to let you all know that I'm ok, baggage arrived etc. and Shawana was waiting at the airport for me. Let me just say that this trip was considerably less stressful than my last visit to Korea -- even the jet lag was less painful.

For those interested, I appear to have avoided the worst of the jet lag by being sure to take a mid-afternoon flight out of Vancouver. I arrived at ICN after a 12hr flight at about 6pm local time. By the time I got to sleep Shawna's I was exhausted but still mobile as it was only 4am-ish Vancouver time. Today, I woke up around 8am local time and I feel relaxed and well rested. All is good.

Well there is some bad: Shawna's internet connection here doesn't seem to like my laptop. There's a flaky unencrypted wireless connection around here called "default" but I've only be able to get on that once and her hard-line connection... I'm not sure if it's DSL or cable or what, but it doesn't like me. I'll poke Shawna's brain some more when she gets home but until then my laptop won't be online which means no shell access, no email and no Skype. For now I must blog on Shawna's Windows laptop (ew).

Jeong-Yeon and I are about to go out for breakfast, so I must go, I just wanted to check in and say "hi" to you all :-)