Thursday, April 21, 2011

stepping into the abyss (my first journal entry written Jan 20/2010

After close to twenty six hours we have arrived in Manila! I'v had maybe three hours of sleep at this point, and I feel like I'm in some strange dream. The flight was really good, when we landed in Seoul Korea it was so foggy I couldn't see the runway. I actually didn't know we had even landed until we stopped moving!

After we got off the plane, and into the airport, we checked Lisa's email, and were very disappointed to find out the guest house we were planning to stay at was fully booked......SHIT! so
so we scrambled to find other accommodations, but couldn't get a pay phone to work so we could  book somewhere to stay. so instead we wrote some places down and hoped that one of them would have a spot for us. otherwise we would be spending our first night in the Philippines in the Manila airport.

while we were in the Korean airport waiting to board our plane, we met two filipinas who were also on their way to Manila. we told them about the little snag we had run into, and one of the ladies offered to call a friend of hers who ran a small guest house. I was cautious to accept, but they seemed to be genuine so we agreed to take his number. she also called to let him know we might be showing up late. turned out that one lady was a chemist and was working on a vaccine for malaria.

The Korean airport was massive I think I saw a sign pointing to gate 160!! thats insane! it was late night and not much was open. I noticed that there were lots of high end fashion like burberry, lv, and guess. nothing we would be able to afford for a very long time. not that either of us would want to afford anything with such a ridiculous mark up anyways. I cant even imagine what drives people to buy these types of things.


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