Part 1. Geography, trip, and others...

All the histories has to have a begginning. This history starts some months ago in Barcelona. It started as a possibility, for some month it was, but in less than a month, I woke up one day, and I was in a plane with a kind of pepsi logo on it, going to Incheon.

It was a rainy day. Waiting in Madrid airport for a huge plane, with a lot of kind corean people. It has some good and bad sides to be a solo taveller. In that moment I think It didn't matter. When you just wait for something that no depends on you, you just wait.

This was my face when I just get in to the plane. It says: "What I'm doing in here?" or maybe "I should have shaved before taking the plane".

In any case, I was there. Sleepy, a bit bored (I was learning corean during the trip), and thinking how can I get from the Inchon airport to the campus.

I don't really know a lot about geography, but I think that most of you don't really know where is South Korea. I did not since 2 weeks before arrive.

There is my trip, you can discover where Incheon is:

The white line is about 10.900 km, and it takes neraly 14 hours in a plane (if all goes ok), but, if you depart from 2 hours far from Barcelona, you arrive there 3 hours before the departure time (thanks dear parents ;)), it takes 1 hour and ten minutes to arrive to Madrid, you tranfer in Madrid and wait 4 hours before take the "pepsi" plane, 2,5 hours to Amsterdam, go out of the plane, pass the security control again (3rd time), and take the same plane (1 hour waiting in that useless go in go out, it was fu... annoying), and finally only 10 hours to Inchon (plus 40 minutes flying above the airport waiting to land, I though that the pilot was joking). But, I depart at 16:00 from Madrid, and I arrived at 17:00 to Inchon so I though it was convenient to think that I spent only and hour in the trip. Wait a moment! Oh no! it was the 5th of march! Ah shame! ok, I spent 1 day.

Let's go! I bet that my luggage is somewhere but not in Inchon...

Inchon airport is huge, modern, clean, and effective airport. I got no problems with my luggage, either with the passport control. They are very efficient people, "passport"-quick look to your face-visa-stamp-"next". I was in!

What I was thinking is if somebody was there waiting for me, and if yes, are they with something with my name, or they studied my face. Well, there are not lots of non-korean people in the plane, is not difficult to recognise me. Anyway, let's go!

Surprise!! So Young, Sony and Inny (they know that is difficult to catch a korean name) are there, with a poster of the university of Inchon! I was very happy to meet somebody at the airport. When you arrive somewhere is very gratifying to see that somebody is waiting for you, in that case, was also more, because you need to find somebody friendly in a place in witch all the people look at you in a suspicious way... ;)

It's a shame I don't have pictures of this moment, there was to much new things to see and to understand, and I was also a bit tired, I really wanted to eat something and sleep. Before take the plane, my plan was try to arrive to the campus on my own, I mean by bus or train, or I don't know. But was good to go by car, google earth is not uploaded, so there are a new brigde witch goes very close to the campus. The first impresion before see the city is that they live in these kind of cities where there are buildings everywhere, small houses, lot of lights everywhere....

But:

They have a wall of skycrapers in the coast, new ones. The university is placed near the Songdo International business district (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songdo_International_Business_District).

This is the new view that I had about Inchon...