Lost With Seoul Final

Dear Friends,

I hope by now you have all read my daily reports, and I know one day is missing, but since that day sucked, and it would be mostly of me moaning I’ve decided to skip it. Now you just have me posting about my overall holiday even though now it was two weeks ago. But I still have a few things I want to say about it.  

First off I’m going to say this holiday was absolutely amazing. Yes there were a few negatives, like me not eating the local food, or seeing a lot of the sights, but overall it was a win for me. I mean why wouldn’t it be, it was a country that I wanted to visit, and since I have I feel like great for doing so. I know if I went somewhere else I would have had a good time, but going here it has given me something that I never thought I would have, and that's confidence.

I’ll talk about this briefly, as I will be talking a bit about this another time. I’ve had confidence now for a while, and now that I’ve done this, I have confidence that I didn't know I would ever need. I now I feel like I could travel the world alone and still be fine.

Now about Seoul, I loved the city. It wasn't what it was like on the K-Dramas, but that's okay, because it’s making believe. It was a nice clean city, and I mean clean. Modern as well, which I feel a lot of London isn’t and so progressive technology wise. I feel like I went to the future a bit, and now I’m back to the past. I don't know if that just because England is still very slow to adapt to newer technology, but for me it felt so different.

Everyone who has asked about my trip has asked what it was like, and I can honestly say as a city it didn't feel any different than London in a lot of ways. I just went about my business and no one paid me the slightest bit of notice. Which is good, since I felt like I would stand out amongst a crowd. But as I previously said, I saw a lot of black people while I was over there, so it didn't feel like I was one of few.

Since I knew a lot of the culture, celebrity, TV and things I never felt like I was somewhere I didn't know. If I were to say have gone to a country where I wasn’t up on the culture, or knew how things worked, I know I would have felt a little out of my element, but with Seoul I just felt like, I got this.     

Two big negatives for me are, time and food. Since I wasn’t confident to go a local restaurant and be like I want this, I feel like I missed out on a lot of the local food I could have had. I could have tried Korean barbecue, or I could have some bibimbap but I didn't. But I got my Korean fried chicken, so at least I tried it in the home town. While at the same time discovering a beer I liked, and which I still do. I just wish I would have been less apprehensive about where I was eating. The time is something annoying me, since I wasted my first day sleeping. Then spent my last night packing for hours. I know this was all time I wasted that I could have been doing something else. That’s life, though.          

One of the things I said before I even left was, I want to go back. I don't want to go back because I feel like I’ve gone somewhere and I like, and going to keep going there. I feel like I want to back at least two more times. One, to get more the stuff I got here and want more of. Two, to buy more K-Pop shit at a decent price. Three, there are still a lot of things I wasn’t allowed to do while I was there. Like see the traditional Korean culture, eat more of the food and actually try my hand at speaking the language. I feel those are good reasons to go back, and not just because I liked it. Yeah I did, but it’s not reason why I want to go back.          

For me the greatest thing about this holiday was it opened my eyes to the world, and the feeling that sometimes I don’t need someone. I know if went with someone else I would have maybe a similar experience. Since it was just me, it allowed me to do what I kinda planned out. I’m not saying next I wouldn’t mind going with someone, but since I experienced the city for myself, I feel like I would be okay sharing it with someone else.

This holiday has been great, and I could I would do it again, and only change a little bit, but overall it was a great experience. It’s only the start of my worldwide adventures, so get ready world FabEs is coming for you YOU!

XO FabEs