Hi guys,
Sorry haven't been blogging. I've been really busy exploring the area around our hotel and Seoul and internet access in our hotel is not that acessible. Basically the students sits near the coffee shop downstairs to use the internet.I'm loving Korea so far. The weather is alright, though its bad from noon because the sun is out and its a lot more humid. The air is stuffy especially in the subways!
The flight was pretty good except for it was getting tiring at the end. Never put a bag down under the seat in front of you during a looong ass flight!! My legs were hurting and aching. Korean Air is reallly nice :) I thought they were going to feed us just two meals lunch and dinner, but we got an extra meal after our stop at Narita. Seriously we ate around 8-9 US time and a few hours later, we got another meal. Though the meal wasn't as good as the meals we ate during our flight from LAX-Narita. The flight attendants are reallly nice and pretty. I loveee their outfits!
We got to Incheon airport around 7:30pm in Korea Jun 14. Its a really nice airport and so big. I didn't really go around that much so I can't tell you anymore cool stuff. When we got to our hotel, Helen and I were placed in a hostel with two other girls, Tiffany who's from CSULB and Angie who is from UVA. Both of them were reallly niceee. I was worried that I would get put in a room with bitches, lol. Anywho..So we checked into our hostel. It's really interesting cuz to turn on the electrity we have to insert our room card into the slot near the door.
The next few days we went shopping with a bunch of other girls. Myeongdong with the girls and Dennis who was our guide
on Wednesday. It is a very huge outdoor shopping mall. Cars go through the streets..so weird when there's a lot of people walking around. Some stuff are pretty cheap here. Like the 10 dollar purses!! There is restaurants, little shops such as Mad girl which is an accessory store, and more famous korean clothing stores, and make up stores. There is a lot more people that come later in the evening because everyone is busy earlier in the day.
I bought a bag and some socks there. I will post up pictures of what I got online.
Also Ignore the date on the pictures; my camera is set up in US time. So I went to Myeongdong Jun 15.
There is seriously sooo many stores here at Myeongdong and we didn't have time to look at everything. I also have a little video of the city but I've been so busy I haven't uploaded onto my computer yet D: sorry guys will do it asap!
Jun 16 Edae
I loveeee edae. It is an area where Ewha university, a prestigious woman's university is.
Around edae is an outdoor shopping area filled up tiny clothing, make up, bag, sunglasses/glasses, and shoe shops. They also have one 10 dollar purse store here. Also anyone looking for afforable haircut/hair dying/perms should check out the hair salons at Edae.
I also noticed that the girls where who go to Ewha university dress realllly nice. Most of them wear cute blouses with skirts or shorts. A LOT of young korean woman wear heels or wedges with their outfits. And also A LOT of young woman at the Edae area tuck in their blouses/shirts. The clothing sizes are small though, especially if you are looking for shorts or skirts! So small.
I also got my haircut at Edae because a couple of my friends and I split up with our main group to find another hair saloon that was cheaper from the one they were going to. An adjumma actually gave one of our friends a little flyer of the haircut place and we found it there. The haircut salon was hidden! we had to go up a narrow staircase in between two shops onto the second level where the salon is. I got my hair cut and styled for 15000 won which is 15 us dollars. I wanted my hair to look like one of the pictures of hyori in the book at the salon. I liked my hair better later in the day. Helen got a dramatic short cut! really cute one.
Clothes sold at Edae. I don't know the price of these clothes, but the material of the clothes here are sort of thin! However its really cute and pretty.
Some things I noticed in South Korea
-It is true that girls here are thin, but there are some that are just average size. I have not seen much obese korean woman.
-scooters can ride on the sidewalk and cross the street with pedestrians when the walk sign pops up. There is the countdown to the walk sign for crosswalks.
-There is convenience stores everywhere.
-Soju is cheaper than water.
-banana milk is 1100 won which is about one us dollar
-Girls at Edae dress nicer than the girls i've seen at Dankook Jukjeon campus.
-uniqlo is expensive so is H&M and Forever 21
-It is humid right now but not that bad, however july probably will be.
The last couple of days, we just go to our orientation from 8-afternoon and then shop and eat food near our hotel.
Next week I will move into Jukjeon campus on Monday!
Most of my pictures will be up on Facebook but my videos will be on here!
