Finally here...
An-nyong haseyo!!!(Hello!!!) I'm here in downtown Seoul emailing from a "PC", an internet hole in the wall surrounded by Koreans playing games, checking email and doing other work I don't recognize. Seoul is fantastic! It's so alive and the people are so nice. It's also very safe and not too expensive. There are also a ton of western places to eat(woo-hoo!) and we've discovered the water is ok to drink( so far....)
As far as getting here, it was a long flight. We left New York at midnight, Friday night and arrived in Seoul at around 8PM Saturday night(9AM Sunday here). The food on the plane was not half bad, but my knees were killing me the whole way. Luckily, we had an hour layover in Alaska, so we could all stretch, pee, and have a Cinnabon.(Kyle, I saw the big bear you were talking about. It was HUGE!) It was pretty cool flying over northern Canada, as the sun was out at 2AM. There was a GPS tracking device displayed, so we knew exactly where we were and how fast and high we were travelling, as well as the distance and time to our destination.
The hotel here is one of the nicest in all of Seoul. It's got one of the biggest gyms in all of Korea and, I believe, all of Asia! It's four floors of machines, pool, and, best of all, a virtual driving range! I haven't tried it yet, but certainly will very soon.
The hotel is directly across the street from the City Hall Plaza, where there is a huge open grass area, the only one downtown I've seen so far. They had been setting up this giant staging area there for days and no one knew why. That is until a few hours ago, when, on the way home from rehearsal, we discovered it was a huge celebration for the arrival of the Olympic Flame! (I got a few pictures).
The people in the cast and pit are super nice and all have done the Sam Mendes version af "Cabaret", so we should be in great shape once people re-famaliarize themselves with the show.
Well, I'll leave you for now, but please respond to this or send me an email(sgagliastro@yahoo.com) soon, I'd love to hear from you all very soon. Thanks to everyone for helping, as my mom said so strikingly as I was on the way out the door Friday, my dream come true. An-nyong-ee hasyeo!(Goodbye!)- Gags
As far as getting here, it was a long flight. We left New York at midnight, Friday night and arrived in Seoul at around 8PM Saturday night(9AM Sunday here). The food on the plane was not half bad, but my knees were killing me the whole way. Luckily, we had an hour layover in Alaska, so we could all stretch, pee, and have a Cinnabon.(Kyle, I saw the big bear you were talking about. It was HUGE!) It was pretty cool flying over northern Canada, as the sun was out at 2AM. There was a GPS tracking device displayed, so we knew exactly where we were and how fast and high we were travelling, as well as the distance and time to our destination.
The hotel here is one of the nicest in all of Seoul. It's got one of the biggest gyms in all of Korea and, I believe, all of Asia! It's four floors of machines, pool, and, best of all, a virtual driving range! I haven't tried it yet, but certainly will very soon.
The hotel is directly across the street from the City Hall Plaza, where there is a huge open grass area, the only one downtown I've seen so far. They had been setting up this giant staging area there for days and no one knew why. That is until a few hours ago, when, on the way home from rehearsal, we discovered it was a huge celebration for the arrival of the Olympic Flame! (I got a few pictures).
The people in the cast and pit are super nice and all have done the Sam Mendes version af "Cabaret", so we should be in great shape once people re-famaliarize themselves with the show.
Well, I'll leave you for now, but please respond to this or send me an email(sgagliastro@yahoo.com) soon, I'd love to hear from you all very soon. Thanks to everyone for helping, as my mom said so strikingly as I was on the way out the door Friday, my dream come true. An-nyong-ee hasyeo!(Goodbye!)- Gags
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