This is yet again another short update. As yesterday I'm writing this when I'm suppose to be sleeping. Its monday, so its school tomorrow, and now the clock is soon to be 1AM (01.00). But because of studying I havnt been able to go to bed yet.
Anyway, over to the reason why I'm actually blogging in the middle of the night... Tell you about my two last weeks beside school.
I've been quite busy everyday with alot of study after school. But because I think I'm doing such a great job with being a hard working student I'm allowed to take some days off just having fun times with my friends.
Some of the things I've been doing (Which I got pictures of):
Global Student Union Club Meeting
Went to korean bbq together with the club I signed up for. Club for koreans to meet foreigners and foreigners to meet koreans. Its meeting every friday. But I've only been to once this far. This was my first friday at school. It was an "get to know each other" meeting. Involving eating and drinking, welcome to university student life!!!
After eating korean bbq we went to a bar located not too far from where we ate. It was very fun and I met alot of other students from different majors. And many were foreigners. On campus I dont really see foreigners too often. So being able to hang out with some was very fun.
The night involved drinking alot of beer, and soju (korean alcohol). Koreans are so good at different drinking games, which are very fun but complicated.
My classmate Grace which I went there with left home more early before me because she was tierd and must get back to her dormitory before midnight. So I went to another place to eat chicken with two other students, A guy from US and one from Turkey. Think I went home around 4AM, and took a taxi because its was raining so badly!
Piano Paradiso concert.
The day after, on saturday I went together with Seul Gi to Seoul Olympic Park to see Piano Paradiso concert with 3 very known great pianists (Yiruma, Yuhki Kuramoto and Steve Barakatt). The Olympic Park is HUGH, and its so great for strolling around, and its cute rabbitts everywhere. So if you ever are in Seoul and wanna see a awesome park or wanna go picnic, go to Olympic Park.
I meet up with Seul Gi some hours before the concert so we could walk around the park just relaxing and enjoying our day together. The weather was very cloudy and some cold, so I was alittle worried of rain, because the concert was outside in the park. But, It didnt rain, so we were lucky!
Before the concert started. The concert started at 7PM, but it became dark outside after a short time after we sat down. And it was so beautiful sitting in the dark, with the pretty lighted scene and piano music.
Under the concert. Picture of Yiruma talking. I must admit I almost died of cold, I was wearing a dress,bad choice I know. But the music was so pretty I forgot all about being cold most of the time. Many of the songs brought a tear to my eye.
63 buildning
I went on date to the 63 buildning together with Seul gi. Logically its a buildning with 63 floors. We went there quite late, after school. So we meet up around 6PM.
But because we arrived around 7PM to the subway station closest to the buildning and thats around dinnertime so we went to eat dinner first. We chose a vietnamese restaurant. And the food was simple, but very good! Would go there again sometime.
After walking around for a long time after we ate dinner, we got totally lost. I mean, how hard can it be, just look for a tall buildning, right? But no, we didnt find it. So we took taxi there. Fail.
BUT. "We" found it at last (or the taxidriver did). The 63 buildning had alot of different things like cinema, aquarium, wax museum. But our mission was going to the 63rd floor. So for going to the top floor, must buy a ticket to take the elevator. The elevator is outside of the buildning so can see the view while going all the way to the top.
Because we came late the view was amazing! Seeing whole Seoul when its dark outside its so pretty. Its very perfect for dates, so If you ever wanna take your loved-one to somewhere with a beautiful view, go here at night. Where I took this picture the floor was made out of glass, so could see all the way down, cool right? It was very fun watching japanese girls scream as they realised they were standing on glassfloor.
One of the hallways on the top of the buildning. Not only does it have awesome view, but also art gallery for people to look at. So we spent some hours just being amazed by the view, and looking at art.
Pictures taken in the coffeeshop where we sat for a while taking and watching cars looking like toycars from our view.
So my conclusion after being to the 63 buildning is = I wanna live in an apartment with view like this.
Other random pictures:
In the shopping center near my School. This picture is from first time I went there. Together with Robert and Grace in my class. Didnt buy anything. But Robert was kind to show us around our school area.
My favorite food market around my place. Its very asian. Just a big tent-like market. But they got everything needed for cooking.
In Myongdong with Grace. Went there together to buy ourself fall jackets, because the weather is getting colder these days. Ended up buying a cream/pink/peach-ish color parka jacket from Forever 21. And I also needed new shoes, I only got summer shoes, like balleria shoes. So I bought a pair of this seasons converse shoes. Pink of course!
And oh, as you see in this picture and the other one me and Grace ate at a indian restaurant when we were in Myongdong. Very great food indeed!
But my best buy was these slippers. Seriously Ive been longing for buying slippers since I came to korea. When I go to the kitchen etc to get water, if I walk in my socks my socks become dirty on my way to the kitchen and back. And my feet are freezing in my room also if i dont have socks on. And I dont have many pair of socks, so walking without is somthing I do often.
Well...Thats it, Now I really need to sleep. Goodnight
