October 30 - In Seoul

I'm currently at the Incheon airport. This is my first time ever being outside north America. It's 3 in the morning and I have the whole place to myself.

Those escalators in the last picture are kind of cool. We should get them in Montreal, I think. They have motion sensors that turn the escalator on only when it is in use and leave it off otherwise. It probably saves a ton of energy.

Incidentally, this is probably the last time I will be able to post pictures to the blog, though I will see if I can do it from my email posts (since blogspot is blocked in China).

As an addendum to my last post, Incheon not only has free wifi service, it has 7 different free wifi services! There's really something wrong with this picture.

The flight was really long and exhausting. I only managed to sleep for an hour, making that 1 hour of sleep in the last 33 hours, with at least another 7 hours to go before I can make it anywhere near a real bed.

Fortunately, on the flight I met a really cool Korean guy from Toronto. We talked about all sorts of interesting things throughout the flight, which managed to kill about 4 hours worth of this ordeal. The rest of the time was spent watching movies (4 hours), sleeping (1 hour) and wishing I was sleeping (the longest 5 hours ever).

On the other hand, Korean Air is an amazing airline. All refreshments were free and unlimited with the exception of high-end alcohol. Where else can you get bibimbap, a breakfast, wine, beer, coffee, tea, as many snacks as you want, free pillows, blankets, headphones, a hot facecloth, etc. all on one single flight? Wonderful service.

I had a conversation in Chinese with one of the attendants where I learned the words for "Sprite" (xue bi) and "no ice" (bu xiang xiao bing).

I'm happy and excited to get to China in just a few hours!