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Cultural Exchange Program- Reaching the Venue

Date - 23/09/2017

Today we went to Hi Seoul Youth Hostel. We woke up a little late as it was a Saturday. We quickly got ready, had our breakfast and left in the subway for Yeongdeungpo-gu Office.

We reached there in around 1 hour but then we weren't sure how to reach the Venue from the station. We had searched and also saved the Screenshot for the way but we got confused as we had to go on foot ahead and we were standing clueless on that street. Since we don't have a Korean Sim right now, none of us even had an Internet Connection.

When you are already getting late and you have lost your way not a great feeling. If being in a foreign country counts you can add that too. But when you are with your friends worry is not even the last thing on your mind. We were rather laughing at our situation and simply tried to find the way together.

We asked a few people, some could not understand our language so we tried showing them the address on the phone but some people just didn't know or could not understand.

Then  there was one person who had no clues about the place but when we showed him the address, he simply called them and asked for the directions. Then he asked one of us to talk. It was great to see how he was trying to help us when it was hard for him to even understand our tongue. Honestly, asking people for directions like that was a little embarassing too. But we finally got the right directions.

We now knew we were on the right track because we now could see the boards we had seen before on google maps. But even now we weren't sure if we had to turn at some point and how far was it.

Then we decided to ask someone else again. Luckily, this time the man we asked was good with English and knew about the Hi Seoul Youth hostel too. He told us we just had to go straight on the same path for around 300 metres. We did the same and there we were finally in front of the Hostel.

We were glad to see the board and to have reached the venue. In all thus confusion, a 10 minute walk otherwise took us around half an hour.

But when all five of us are together nothing is really a big deal...so just a funny beginning to a great day.....😉😁😁

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