soupy says

I'm currently in my friend Vickie's apartment near Yonsei University in Seoul, South, Korea!. My plane left Denver at 8:34 am on Nov. 7th. I got to Seoul at 8:30pm on Nov 8th. In between, I had layovers in San Francisco, CA and Tokyo, Japan. Vickie picked me up from the airport has given me a tutorial on Korean words, culture etc. She is an excellent guide. She sure has made things easier.

I'm trying to come up with some profound first impressions of Seoul, but I think I'm experiencing overload from the last 24 hours. It seems like an hour ago I was sitting in DIA.

Oh, I can think of something...while Vickie and I sat waiting for the bus at the airport. A man from the bus ticket counter with a Dixie-type cup half full and handed it to Vickie, "Coppee." He asked if I wanted some and went and got some more from the counter. It was good. It almost tasted like a gas station cappuccino.

Edit: Ok, I thought of something else. In the airport bathrooms, in the toilet stall, there was this button attached to a speaker. Curious, I pressed it. It played a recorded noise of a toilet flushing. It took me a minute, but I figured out that it was there so you could cover up "toilet noises." Vickie calls it an "etiquette bell."