For my return from China I flew back into Daegu Airport. This would be my first time arriving as I've only ever departed and returned to Busan since flights are so few to Daegu. At Beijing Airport there were more than usual foreigners heading to Daegu and more mature looking than the typical english teacher.

I realized they might be coming for the IAAF games and asked one person, who turned out to be a sporting official from Sierra Leone . There were different African and European nationalities on the flight and made up almost half the flight, which would otherwise have been full with koreans or chinese.

As we arrived passport control was quite slow with this many foreigners. However, there were many displays for the Daegu IAAF event. Upon entering the arrivals lounge there were large crowds of locals holding IAAF banners and cheering wildly at each arriving passenger.

There were welcoming delegations for each set of passengers, one group of locals was waving a board saying 'Welcome Belarus'. People kept thinking I was part of the IAAF arrivals and kept approaching me.

Outside there were waiting IAAF coaches to take them to the venue and athletes village. I walked across to the bus stop, were people were again confused and thought I was lost, so I had to tell them I was going to Chilgok and showed them my local bus card.

For the last month the main streets in Daegu have all been decorated with flags of each of the participating countries, even though some neighbourhoods like mine are nowhere near the event venues. Even outside my school are flags of some countries.

Hopefully by this weekend I will be rested and recovered from my China trip and apartment move in time for Saturdays Opening Ceremonies.