Trick - Eye Museum Photos!

Enjoy the photos of me being totally ridiculous. And relish in the awesomeness that is the Trick-Eye Museum.

I Enjoy Eating

November 4th - 10th

Hey guys, me again. You know what time it is. Time to update this blog on lame stuff I did that you all aren't necessarily interested in but read anyway. So let's get started.

So Monday, the 4th, I went to class. Yeah, I know. Super exciting. But that's generally how most of my days go. I honestly don't think I did anything super interesting. In fact, I didn't. The only exciting thing I could remember was going to dance class where Thomaz and Daniel collaborated on a piece and taught it to us. It was super fun, as dance class always is.

Tuesday...I honestly don't think I did anything. In fact, I don't think I did anything this whole week that's worth mentioning. I ate...of course. And quite frankly, looking at the pictures I took this week, they're mainly of food. In light of the fact that I can't remember what I did on which day, I will talk about stuff I remember in no particular order.

I went to a really good sushi restaurant with a couple of friends this week. Although it was a tad bit pricey, the sushi was really good and I thoroughly enjoyed eating it. For those who know me well, you guys know I really like sushi so you can imagine how happy I was. I also ate from one of my favorite restaurants that's close to my dorm. I call it the "Strawberry Place." This week I had bulgogi dolsotbap, ojinguh dolsotbap, this other dolsotbap with spicy pork, and kalgooksoo from there this week. (Sure I can type these food names in Korean but...I don't want to. So sorreh. Not to mention I forgot how it's spelled. I'll pay more attention from now on.) If you ever end up in Seoul near the Yonsei International Dorms, your should eat there. I highly recommend it. It has good and cheap food: a winning combination.

I also ordered take-out from this place called Yummy? I think? It's a Japanese restaurant. The food was...sub par. It wasn't very warm when I got it which I guess I can't complain too much about. However, I really like eating food when it's really warm so it was kind of a turn-off for me. Nonetheless, it filled me up.

Now that I'm done talking about food, I will talk about what I did during the weekend. On Saturday, I went to the Trick-Eye Museum with my roomie Ana. It was super fun and the Ice Museum was super cold. I will post the pictures in my next blog post because I took a bunch. We also saw some kind of performance on our way back. But that night, I went to Club Answer in Gangnam because it was one of my friend's birthday and that's where she wanted to go. From the very beginning, the club was very strict. We came with a large group of people and some didn't get in because they weren't "dressed well enough." And another couldn't because he was not old enough. I'm not sure what the dress code entailed exactly, but I'm convinced I was let in because I was female.

Overall, it was fun and interesting...I will leave it at that. LoL They do only play electronic music which I'm not really into but I found a way to enjoy myself nonetheless. I also learned some things.

1. Some girls are a complete and total mess.
2. Boys at the club in Gangnam are very attractive.
3 They're also not shy about grabbing you by the wrist or waist which I'm not okay with.
4. Random girls give me dirty looks no matter what country I'm in. Haters gonna hate.

And...That's it. I wish I could tell you that I did something on Sunday but I didn't. So I can't. But...enjoy the pics! ^ ^

Different Dolsotbaps

Super Yummy Sushi

Take-Out from Yummy Japanese Restaurant

Random Performance in Edae

Dunkin' Doughnuts Doughnuts

I Found a Popeye's!

Kalgooksoo

This is Halloween, This is Halloween!

October 29th - November 3rd

So to start us off, I can't believe it's November. That means I only have a little over a month and a half left in Seoul. Man time goes by fast. You know what it also means? That I did absolutely like nothing here. Hehe. So I'm determined to make this month and a half memorable. Now that that's been said, I shall go on about how I did mostly nothing from the 29th of October to the 3rd of November. Once again, don't remember exactly what I did when so bear with me.

Me and my roomie Anabel, sometime the beginning of last week, wen to a quaint little Hispanic restaurant for lunch. I ordered the lunch set with came with a burrito, quesadilla, and fries. It was delicious and we even got free fries and free dessert because she goes there often. Notice how I say everything I eat is delicious. Well, it is. I happen to have good taste in food and there so happens to be good food everywhere here. And this may seem completely crazy, but they sure have good friend chicken here. I've literally ate fried chicken all week. I just can't seem to help myself. It's addicting. I don't know what they put in it (crack), but it's the bomb.

On Tuesday, which I now remember is when I ate the burrito, me and Ana also went to a music show recording. It was the pre-recording for Simply K-Pop. Ana got chosen to be part of he studio audience and she so kindly brought me along. N-Sonic, Nine Muses, J Jun, AOA, U-Kiss, MPire, A-Jax and Kahi performed and it was super fun and somehow really long. This is what I've gathered from it all:

1. Some fans are completely bonkers and can scream super loud and super shrilly into your ear for 10 minutes straight.
2. Some celebrities are shorter in person.
3. No matter how many times J Jun lifts up or takes off his shirt, I will not get tired of it.
4. Idols seem to have some articles in their wardrobe that don't fit them properly, which is quite unfortunate.
5. I shouted the lyrics to U-Kiss's new song wrong.The shame.

Yup. That's basically it for that. We weren't allowed to take pictures or talk to the celebrities so I don't have any pictures to show you. So sorry. All I have are my memories which obviously, aren't very reliable at times. As a matter-of-fact, I swore J Jun was smiling directly at me the whole time and his whole performance was for me but I think we all know what the truth is. *Sighs*

Also sometime this week (Thursday I believe), we went costume shopping and on the way, had kalgooksoo for lunch.. Can't really explain it, so there's the picture below. Of course, Thursday was Halloween so I had to get dressed up. As you see below, I was a vampire. Nope, I didn't have fangs. There was a Halloween party hosted by a club on campus that night so a lot of people got dressed up for it. Although the venue was super crowded, it wasn't really my scene so I left early. However, I did manage to freak out some locals on my way to the party. Did I look that scary?

Since I got on the topic of Halloween, I shall talk a bit about Halloween in Korea...

Halloween in Korea is basically nonexistent because it's like an American holiday. A very small group of people here celebrate Halloween; mainly foreigners and college students. In fact, not a lot of places decorate for Halloween, and not a lot of people dress up. From what I saw, only clubs and stuff put out Halloween decorations and the only places you see that sell costumes is from small street vendors or a party store. Even then, there's not a very large selection of stuff like you see in the US. Then again, I went shopping for a Halloween costume on Halloween so my opinion is not all that valid. Guess that's what makes it an opinion. Anywho, I also think people believe Halloween is an all-week event...but that's just me. The reason I say this is because well, people were dressed up all week and I wasn't exactly sure why. Maybe I knew why but still, can't help but be confused. That's kind of my rough observation of what Halloween is like here. Ta dah!

On Friday I just went to class and I spent my whole weekend at a church retreat. It was an...interesting experience. And I leave it at that.

Sorry for not having a lot of pictures you guys. I'm kinda slacking aren't I? I promise to do better. As always, thanks for reading and I hope you find this remotely entertaining. Toodles!

Vampy Vampireness

Dessert and Kalgooksoo

Halima and Captain America