Salt Lake Airport - San Francisco Airport

I made it!  Well, at least to San Francisco.  Dude, I love the airport here!  Name brand stores and Asians!!!!  Haha I'm just kidding but I have seen a lot of both of those fun things.  When I saw Gucci, I had to double check to see if what I saw was true lol.  I had some time to kill so I thought I would update on the latest even thought it's been a couple hours since my last entry.  If you wanna call or text me before 2:10, you can still catch me.  Otherwise, your best bet is facebook.  I should be getting a cell phone but just count on facebook being the best option as of now. 

Salt Lake airport

Well, airport was a success.  Or at least the problems that I had so far were not bad.  My suitcase was over 8 pounds and so I had to remove a few things.  Man, honestly, you can't fit a lot of things under 50 pounds.  Not when your suitcase is already big.  So not cool, but I was able to move some things to carry on.  I swear, when I went to Spain, France, and Morocco a couple years ago, I took more and it was fine.  I think guidelines are changing and my suitcase is just big.  I thought it was a coffin haha lol.  Getting checked at security is not fun when you have so much on you.  Taking shoes off to get checked still grosses me out.  But hey, if it catches criminals, then by all means.  I saw lots of people at the airport like Rob Holley (my Korean ta) and So Young Kim (a student who a taught a lesson for my Korean class).  It's seriously helpful to know some people when flying alone.  I didn't realize how many things I didn't know needed to take place without those two. 

Hanging out at the San Francisco airport

On the way to San Francisco from Salt Lake, I sat by a very nice man.  His name was Bruce Robertson from Montana.  He's a financial advisor and on his way to a business conference.  I found out he's Catholic and had a son die years ago.  I asked him about a lot of things actually like financial advice and parenting.  We had a intellectual conversation haha.  He was nice to help me put my bags in the cabin/whatever that's called for carry on (my brain isn't exactly working right now).  I hurt my back a couple days ago so it's been pretty miserable and annoying trying to do anything. 

I almost forgot to pick up my boarding pass to Korea if Rob wasn't there.  At SLC, they give you a receipt looking ticket and scan that but at international flights you need a boarding pass.  How could I forget?  I went to Spain, France, and Morocco 4 years ago.  My brain must be really fried.  Just my luck (not really), when I went to pick up my boarding pass, I couldn't understand the man asking for my baggage number and weighing my carry on.  His Indian accent was really strong; I can understand when people speak English with their accent even when it's strong and they don't use correct grammar but I had difficulty with the man.  I think what could have been maybe 1-2 minutes was 3-5 minutes. 

As of now, I'm just waiting.  We're boarding in 7 minutes!  Ah!!!!  Super long flight (12 hours), but it'll be April 26 in the evening when I get there.  Korea is 15 hours ahead of Utah.  I'm going to sleep everywhere and at any time.  I found that out in Spain.  But I'm looking forward to seeing my relatives and eating lots of good Korean food!  Every single time I eat Korean food, the thought comes into my head, "Get me out of here and send me to Korea."  Right now, I'm just hoping my suitcases get there in one piece and everything is there.  There are so many Asians!!!!  It's AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!  Well, I'm packing up and heading on the plane now!  ^^ 안녕/Bye(ahn-nyong)!!