Tuesday, May 29, 2007 - Seoul
Last night after I posted on this blog the "family" here at the Golden Pond Guesthouse had a wonderful time exchanging travel stories. One group (Tim, the lady owner, Jeff, Stu and Paul) were in the kitchen drinking some local beer and talking story; another group (Peter, myself, Baggish Kumar from Britain traveling for 11 months now and Clara a Swede whom he met while on his travels) were exchanging travel experiences.
Baggish was relating to us what had happened to them on their trip to Mongolia where they camped in this pristine lakeside area only to be attacked and stoned by locals. Baggish got hit by a couple of rocks fortunately not knocking him out completely. They managed to escape and return to the city and come to Seoul to relate this frightening experience.
Later on that night Tim, our american friend leaving the next morning, was so wasted that he was totally out of it, tried to pack his stuff and kept on losing things like his toiletry kit and his key to the padlock of the safe where his documents were. Meanwhile the rest of us, in addition to the newcomers, Lisa (Canadian Chinese) and Eric (Vietnamese American), and Hac Zhou from Guangzhou, joined our conversations. It was a wonderful exchange of stories and it really felt like an Ohana was being formed among these young hostellers. (Peter and I were the oldest in the group but wasn't too obvious since we looked young like them. <>)
We have learned a lot of different perspectives in traveling around the world and also how others perceive things about certain people. What was interesting that some of us were actually in the same hostel as the other in previous trips and just didn't meet until this time.
This hostel is small which is perfect for interactions like these. For sure we will all remember this time we spent here in Seoul.
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This morning we are doing housekeeping stuff like laundry and such before we leave early morning on Wednesday. The place we haven't visited yet is Myeongdong district so we're simply going to enjoy and relax today. Will write about this later.
Last night after I posted on this blog the "family" here at the Golden Pond Guesthouse had a wonderful time exchanging travel stories. One group (Tim, the lady owner, Jeff, Stu and Paul) were in the kitchen drinking some local beer and talking story; another group (Peter, myself, Baggish Kumar from Britain traveling for 11 months now and Clara a Swede whom he met while on his travels) were exchanging travel experiences.
Baggish was relating to us what had happened to them on their trip to Mongolia where they camped in this pristine lakeside area only to be attacked and stoned by locals. Baggish got hit by a couple of rocks fortunately not knocking him out completely. They managed to escape and return to the city and come to Seoul to relate this frightening experience.
Later on that night Tim, our american friend leaving the next morning, was so wasted that he was totally out of it, tried to pack his stuff and kept on losing things like his toiletry kit and his key to the padlock of the safe where his documents were. Meanwhile the rest of us, in addition to the newcomers, Lisa (Canadian Chinese) and Eric (Vietnamese American), and Hac Zhou from Guangzhou, joined our conversations. It was a wonderful exchange of stories and it really felt like an Ohana was being formed among these young hostellers. (Peter and I were the oldest in the group but wasn't too obvious since we looked young like them. <
We have learned a lot of different perspectives in traveling around the world and also how others perceive things about certain people. What was interesting that some of us were actually in the same hostel as the other in previous trips and just didn't meet until this time.
This hostel is small which is perfect for interactions like these. For sure we will all remember this time we spent here in Seoul.
~~~
This morning we are doing housekeeping stuff like laundry and such before we leave early morning on Wednesday. The place we haven't visited yet is Myeongdong district so we're simply going to enjoy and relax today. Will write about this later.
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