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Yesterday, 4 years ago - it was Tuesday and my last full day I spent in S.K. (remember it was just my first visit in the country...) - my German friend and me we went to a short trip to Incheon. There we wanted to search for the areas where several scenes of the beautiful movie "Take Care of my Cat" were photographed, because several scenes were playing there.

First we went on a hill to check the area... Wow, the air was complete f.. dirty and you could just see the ugly port and some factories. Later we wanted to walk to the seaside, but unfortunately we'd to pass a industrial area where even the breathing was paining because of the dirty air. The 밷oardwalk?(so-called promenade) was just terrible, desert and not nice, not really...

There I made a call to Seoul, to my new friend, that we could meet in the evening at the subway station near to the house where I was staying at that time. I told her that we will finish the trip in Incheon not so late, because we wanted to prepare a German dinner as a special surprise. She said that she will come at the time and that already is happy to meet me...

Of course after the boardwalk we found the areas what for we were searching for the Chinese quarter and some of the most poor areas in Incheon. It was exactly like it was shown in the movie. Actually it was very depressing, even I knew that still many people are forced to life in such terrible conditions..

In the afternoon back in Seoul we prepared the dinner and in the evening I was walking, very anxious, to the subway station to pick up... I met her (uhuu~ she was so happy..) and I brought her to the house. Wow, and she brought flowers for the owner of the house (soon she called her "older sister" the first time that I heard this..).

Anyway the German dinner was good, but I think a little unfamiliar to her (perhaps not spicy enough...) and in the beginning ?funny to see ?she had some problems to use fork and knife (haha, like me when I had to use...). Later we were drinking Italian wine (I think it wasn't sweet enough...), we my German friend and me, told about our visit in N. Korea the year before and we showed some of the pictures we made there.

After a while our hosts got tired and we, my friend and me, had to move in the room I was staying during the time there. And a really interesting and beautiful time was beginning. She told me many things about her family, I learned a lot about the Korean society and until the late night, early morning she told me traditional stories about Buddha and the small tree, about princess Ba-ri...... Actually this night was the best present for me in all the time I spent in S.K. ?I just felt very, very comfortable... actually the situation was not really explainable. Finally I was learning a lot, but also many things just left me confusing... Finally in the coming morning we뭗 to say good bye, perhaps for a long, long time, because just few hours later the plane would bring me back home, 8,000 KM far away from her...

I know, how I told this story it is to illbred, not sensible enough (ha, usually I just write about class struggle, bloody street battles and stuff like that..)...