The start of September

Hello everyone~
I have been both busy and lazy this month, hence no update until now. My school has started, and boy how much we have to read! I have 6 classes and I have to read 1-2 chapters (around 60 pages) for every single class. And you have to read the chapters, because the lessons are less of the teacher teaching and more of a conversation and small debate between students and the teacher. In most of the classes the teacher does teach a bit, but the point is in the discussions. While it is quite different from what I'm used to, it is kind of nice. I do get bit panicky if I have to say anything since I don't wanna say something completely false, but I trust this will go away after a month. I hope.

The Koreans with whom I have talked with are really nice, and speak English really well. One guy even asked after our first class together if I wanted to become friends with a Korean girl, and called his friend. I have talked with both in class and out class, and we even went out to eat 삼겹살 (Korean pork belly) with a Mexican girl and Korean-Chinese girl. 삼겹살 was really good, but I forgot to take a picture of it! I'll probably eat it again at some point, and post a picture then! After our meal (which also included fried rice since it's a custom to eat it after 삼겹살 if I remember correctly) we went out for a walk. The Koreans wanted to show me Chenggyecheon stream, so we went to walk next to it. On our way to a wine bar where the guy wanted to go we saw a gate close to Gyeongbok Palace and the memorial spot of Sewol tragedy. There was a statue of someone too, but I was not informed who's statue it was.


The wine bar was nice, and the wine we drank was the nicest wine I have ever tasted. It still wasn't good though haha. We also ordered a cheese plate, and it was delicious. I'm seriously thinking of going back there just to eat that cheese plate.

I actually have not gone to any proper tourist places yet, as I do not want to go alone. I hope I can go see them with a group of people this month, since the weather is still so nice. It's still 22-25 Celcius degree's yet I've heard some people say it's getting cold. I do not understand them.

Since the only microwave I can use in here is 2 floors above me, and I am lazy, I do not buy meals that I could just warm in a microwave. So far I have either eaten kimpab, at school cafeteria, gone to a reasonable or cheap priced restaurant or went to Ho's Chicken to order take-away. Korean Chicken is delicious by the way. You can also eat a good meal for less than 6,000 won (around 5 euros I think?) at a restaurant if you do not eat barbeque, which is also extremely delicious.


I will do a post of the Grand Kpop Festival soon(ish) and some of the Korean cosmetics and clothing. Until then, see you~
P.S. I still haven't had any kind of a cultural shock, so nice.