Seoul on a budget

AAAAARRRGH! Picture a journey within the realms of site and sound... you're not going anywhere near the demilitarised zone. You're in central Seoul - a 75 minute trip from Shiwa. You've spent all your cash. You go to an ATM and it spits your credit card back at you. You try another ATM, and the same thing happens. Then another. Do-do-do-do, do-do-do-do. You're in a foriegn city with the equivalent of US11 cents, no phone, no phone numbers of the people you know, you don't know the language and you're US$1.50 away from home.



How embarrassed will you be when you ask the first foreign-looking person to buy you a ticket home? Have you ever asked someone for help knowing full-well you'll never be able to repay them, EVER?!


Gerwin steps through a gate, you tell him your plight, and he doesn't hesitate to help. 90 minutes later you're walking through Shiwa again, relieved that, at least, you'll be home soon. And THAT is when you think - why am I here? Why can't my card just work normally? I wanna go home! I wanna go home!


Why didn't you think the negative stuff while in the subway station? Maybe you were dealing with the situation and once safely in Shiwa, you didn't have a situation. That's when you had time to think and get dramatic. You love writing in the third person.


Photo's of Seoul from a tower on a hill in the central city, statues taken from a park on the hill.
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