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Day 2: Colombo, Sri Lanka to Kandy City Centre

Day 1:  Sri Lanka, Colombo International Airport

 I know I shoud've put this picture in the 'Day 1' post. The meat was delicious, but I thought I wantedmore rice. Korean Air was not bad.

 Don't use Uber but PickMe App! TukTuk is only available at PickMe. Plus, Uber in Sri Lanka is more expensive than PickMe. Have you ever been in a taxi for four hours? I called a PickMe as soon as I arrived at Colombo International Airport and headed to Kandy City. If you look at the fuel efficiency at the dashboard, it says its fuel efficiency is 31.7km/litre. How good car it is?!

 I had 7 hours long flight from Seoul to Colombo and arrived at the airport at around 4AM and 2 hours waiting for immigration. I was dang exhausted and I was kind of afraid of being kidnapped or getting robbed because I knew it takes 4 hours from the airport to Kandy City and I am very new to Sri Lanka and I don't understand Sri Lanka language at all (I doubted even where I was heading to). It costed about 5,000 rupees for 4 hours riding from Colombo Airport to Kandy City Centre.

 I was afraid that the taxi driver did not concentrate on driving and watched TV.

 But fortunately, I arrived safely at Kandy City. It took four hours and the price was about 5,000 rupees. When I arrived at KCC, there was something surrounded with big wall. It was an authentic market. 

 There is a bus, but there is no bus stop sign,and there is no line on the road, so you shouldbe really careful if you drive.There is nocrosswalk or traffic light, so when you cross the road, you should be careful.

It's the inside of the market.There are so many people. If you are not a Sri Lankan, merchants will tryto sell fruit to you at a ridiculous price. So if merchants say something, it is better to ignore them. Don't buy anything from them. 

 You can buy fruits at a store with a price tag,but avoid merchants who do not have a pricetag and continue to change prices. There were so many people, so I was worried about the hygienecondition.

 Look at his feet, the fish man and look at the hands of the fish man. I was worried about hygiene because he was not wearing gloves and shoes so I did not buy anything. I really didn't want to go to the hospital or be hospitalized because of stomachache duringmy trip.

 I didn't buy anything in the market.What you should be careful about is that there are a lot of people who want to cheat against foreigners.Itis best to be careful and ignore strangers whenthey talk. The reason I did not buy anything was that the price changed every time I asked the price, and I was worried about hygiene.

 So I decided to go to the mart and buy a sidedish that I could eat with rice. When you are abroad, you are at risk of fallingimmunity, so it is good to eat foods that can take care of your health no matter whatyou eat. And at least if you go to the mart and buy something, you are not worried about being fraudulent.

 All the inside advertisements at the mart were Samsung. I was so proud that I was a Korean. 

 There was a burger king at the Sri Lanka Mart,but it was too expensive. If the price of food exceeds 850 lkr, it can be said to be expensive. So I wanted to eat Burger King, but I did not eatit and ate other things.I honestly can not remember what I ate.

Day 1:  Sri Lanka, Colombo International Airport

 - English is not my native language.If I'm wrong,please point out.Thank you.

A Person Who I Met in San Francisco

미국 샌프란시스코 여행하면서 만난 사람

I met a student who is studies abroad in San Francisco. How I met her is very unexpected and it has interesting story behind. I think traveling is full of unexpected stuffs. I was ordering foods at McDonald's in random place in San Francisco and she started talking to me with Asian accent (I am not putting her down). So I was like "If you are eating at here, why don't we sit and continue conversation?" I introduced myself and she introduced herself too. We liked that we are all both Asian and not American. 

She is Cambodian and came to San Francisco, the United States of America to study English. I wanted to meet who studies in abroad especially a person who is studying in the USA because I wanted to study in anywhere abroad (I think I just wanted to escape from South Korea and wide my scope of vision at age of 15). She said everything is much more expensive than in Cambodia but she likes it. I just could tell that she was very enthusiastic in studying something new. 

샌프란시스코 맥도날드에서 만난 이 사람은 캄보디아에서 간호사로 일하고 있다가 미국에 와서 ESL 수업을 듣고 있다고 했다. 항상 두려움을 느끼는 나로서는 멋지고 대단하다고 생각했다. 혼자 캄보디아에서 미국 샌프란시스코까지 와서 렌트 아파트를 구해서 공부한다는 것이 절대 쉽지 않을 것이라고 생각한다. 캄보디아에서 미국이면 정말 지구 정 반대편 같은데 말이다.

She said she will be going back to Cambodia to continue her job as a nurse after finishing one year ESL programme. For me I don't think I can do it like her because I am a kind of person who be scared of anything before trying something for real. That makes myself not going out of Korea every time haha. It was very nice to talking to her and at the same time it was the first time talking to a nurse in person. If I didn't travel out of South Korea, I might not have a chance to talk to a nurse. I think traveling fuels confidence in myself.

여행을 하지 않았다면 내가 언제 해외 간호사와 이야기를 나눌 수 있을까? 여행은 나 자신의 자신감에 연료를 넣어주는 역할을 하는 것 같다.