korea adventures
Weekly updates about the things I'm up to. Mainly so my grandma doesn't worry too much about me.
I can't believe that I only have a month left in Korea! It's been about four months since I first arrived, and I've been able to do so much around the country. I had to regularly use my winter jacket when going outside this week, but thankfully my landlord turned on the heater inside my goshiwon! Since it's the end of the semester, the projects, presentations, and studying are starting to pile up.
On Monday morning, I headed back to Seoul from Busan. We got to Busan station pretty early and had breakfast and did a little bit of homework before getting on the train. It was about a 3 hour train ride and another 45 minutes to get back to my goshiwon from Seoul Station. The trains have wifi on them, but the outlets weren't working. When I arrived in Gwanak-gu, it was lightly snowing. I couldn't really tell that it was snowing, but I could see little flakes on my black jacket. I also picked up lunch from Salady and exchanged money. I was exhausted after a fun weekend in Busan, but I still had class later that day. On Tuesday, my morning class got cancelled, which was perfect because I could go and pick up my ARC from the Immigration Office. I am relieved that I finally got my ARC. Now I don't have to worry about changing phone plans. Since I only have a month left in Korea, I don't want to go through the hassle of setting up the QR code. The QR code is used for contact tracing when eating at restaurants or entering stores, but I will continue writing my phone number down on paper. On my way back from the office, I paid for my Korean National Health insurance at the convenience store and also picked up a mini cream sandwich and a bagged drink. I went to a Michelin restaurant on Thursday called Minami. It was located near Seoul National University of Education Station. They are known for their soba, so I ordered a tororo soba. I don't think I've had tororo before, but it has an interesting texture and not much flavor. I thought that it was good, but it wasn't anything special considering it was a Michelin restaurant. On Friday, I went near Ewha Woman's University to go shopping. There are a lot of cheap clothing stores in the area, and you can find shirts starting at 5,000 won. Most of these clothing stores are one size, and they do not let you try on the one size items, which kind of sucks. They will let you try on items like pants though. After shopping around for a bit, I went to Sinchon to eat at Sulbing. I don't even know what Bingsu count I'm at at this point, but I ordered a cheese snowflake one. I've tried almost every Bingsu on the Sulbing menu. I had the SNU Buddy Food Festival on Saturday. For this event, there were two Korean students and three foreign students. We decided to make one Korean dish and one foreign dish. Since I don't really know how to cook, I suggested loco moco as the foreign dish. We bought microwavable rice, eggs (the only thing I know how to cook), and frozen meat patties. We also bought katsu sauce, since I don't think they sell gravy packets in Korea. For the Korean dish, the Korean buddies made tteokbokki. We rented a shared kitchen, which had a dining table and all of the supplies needed to prepare the food. The food was pretty good! On Sunday, I went to a Hawaii themed lunch with other UH students. It was a restaurant called Waves located near Mullae Station. This was the third Hawaii themed restaurant that I've been to, and the menus have all been very different. I had a fried avocado plate, which wasn't really anything Hawaii-like, but it was delicious! At night, I went bowling in Gangnam for the final SNU buddy event of the semester. This bowling alley was fun because sometimes colored pins would be placed, and if you got a strike, you would get a free chip or drink. One of the girls in our group won us a free chip and drink!
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