It is quite interesting how easy it is to forget you're in a foreign country when you are living on a school campus or staying in a hotel. There are times when I forget that I live in Korea when I am working at school or laying in my bed because I only hear English and see all Americans around me... that immediately changes when you leave campus.
The same goes for the hotel we stayed at. We stayed at a Holiday Inn, in Seoul, and it was a great place. It was a very western hotel, with a king-size bed and actual western plugs that you didn't need a conversion plug for... which is funny since I am use to seeing the Korean plugs around here now a days. The place had a wonderful lobby, quite possibly the fastest revolving door, which almost took of my heals, and it was nicely decorated for Christmas. The other neat thing about our room was that it lacked free wi-fi, but had a computer in the room that you could use free of charge and it got the internet. Since we didn't have many English channels, we used the computer as a TV and watched shows off of that. I would definitely stay there again if the price was right.
I write this post because of the strange feeling you get when you are staying inside a very nice hotel room and the shades are shut... it honestly felt like I was back in the US. The only difference was that once you left the hotel, you saw Korean citizens and almost all the signs were in Korean. It is funny to walk around and see signs for the new LG DIOS, which is a specially designed fridge for Koreans because it allows you to keep your goods in it, along with a nice lower half used entirely for kimchi... because they eat it like its going out of style.
It is the little things that you miss when you are outside of your own home country.
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