Part 3. People

In my arrival in Incheon I wondered what kind of people I could meet. I mean, I don't really know if there will be a cultural shock, or just different ways to live. I was a bit afraid. I knew that some colleagues from Germany were coming in a few weeks, and some from France were still there.

Anyway, I met the korean colleagues that picked me up at the airport, and I just let it flow. When the curiosity and the need to talk to someone tend to infinity, the cultural and language differences tend to zero. This was my theory (I really like to create my own theories about myself, but they don't use to work properly).

I met all the French "family" the first day. We went to have a beer in to a kind of English pub in the middle of Incheon city (yes, and english pub). After 24 hours travelling it was great to feel again the known and delicious taste of barley juice in my mouth. They are 9 people, from all the different corners of the cheese wined country. They come from the University of Nice (Sophia antipolis), and they knew the country a bit more than me (there arrived 1 day ago :)).

After a couple of weeks, the German people arrived. They are from the University of Cottbus. In the North East of Germany. And, to preserve the good traditions, we went also to have a beer at the same place we when the day that I arrived.

With all this "European group" we have also the always pleasant company of Tra-mi roommate (she is also french, aaaaaaaaaahhhhh I'm sorrounded by french!!!). She arrived some month before us, so she is being our guide since we met here. Thanks Fatima!

Well, let me introduce you the "European group":

The first time that I went into the hydraulic and environmental lab. I found really nice people there. " something to drink?, a coffe?", it use to be difficult to a korean remember the european names. But, I think that is forty, or fifty times more difficult to remember a korean name!! Well, maybe is no like that, but when you met lot of people, and you are not familiarized with korean names. The technique applied was try to match korean names with catalan names. For example "Sin Ae" (I knew how to write it last week) it was "Sònia", and "Se Jin" was "Sergi". It was good at the beggining, but it doesn't really work, it doesn't really match... my advice now is don't do it, it doesn't work, just ask for the english name or a nickname... (or just learn them if your brain can absorb that amount of information.

Anyway, in my daily visits to the hydraulic and environmental lab. (to say hello, work a bit, ask a lot of questions... (many thanks ;)), I was getting familiar with the names so now is the moment to say that is not that difficult, jeje.

It is a bit difficult to find all them together, and there is always somebody missing and new people appearing, so I'll introduce you the korean people (and others) I could record in these weeks: