Wednesday, May 02, 2007

lost in mystification

It's official! We bought the tickets to Korea through All Nippon Airways, meaning that we get to stop over in Japan for a day and a half (see also: wandering, feeling lost, being confused.)

We'll arrive at Narita International and have to somehow navigate ourselves 200 miles south to Haneda Airport to make the connecting flight to Seoul. I figure that with my insanely rudimentary Japanese, people will feel sympathetic-- if not completely embarassed-- by my attempt to find transportation to Haneda. I've already made flashcards with the following statements:

私を助けなさい (help me please)
私はHaneda に行きたいと思うか。(where is Haneda?)
何をこの辺に食べるか。(what should one eat around here?)

Arriving in Seoul is going to be something else ENTIRELY. No longer are we arriving at the foreigner-appropriate/friendly Incheon International Airport, but at Seoul (Gimpo), whose English website consists of nothing but non-clickable picture instructions, intricately detailed maps (all in Korean, of course) and random sprinklings of optimism: "21st century airport with new concept", "Beautiful Flying" , "New and born again airport!"

Bianca, I will be sending you smoke signals.

1 Comments:

Blogger diane said...

ima nanji desu ka - time to get ill (and its japanese equivalent).

RE Korea: http://www.slate.com/id/2151038/

4:24 PM  

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