This weekend, I had the opportunity to bid farewell to the beautiful city of Seoul in order to visit Busan. Busan is home to beautiful beaches and boasts the title of second largest city in Korea (the largest being Seoul, of course.). My study abroad group all hopped onto the KTX, which is a high-speed train that connects multiple locations throughout Seoul. The KTX is fantastic and cuts travel time...
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Saturday, September 20, 2014
My Busy Week.....
This week has been absolutely full of adventures! Which is both wonderful and absolutely exhausting. Totally worth it, though! Just a warning.. this is a rather lengthy post since I've done so much. Read on, if you dare!
The first adventure was the Hello Kitty Cafe! I met up with Hanna, one of my best friends from high school, and she took me to the cafe in Hongdae. It was so crazy cute! I posted...
Sunday, September 14, 2014
KBaseball!
Today I got the chance to go cheer on one of the Seoul baseball teams, the LG Twins! Although the actual game is played the same way as in the USA, the experience of spectating was much different.
First Difference: The teams aren't named after the cities of their origin (ex: Boston Red Sox), but after the companies that sponsor them. So the two teams I saw play were the LG Twins and the Samsung Lions!...
Saturday, September 13, 2014
Bus Tour
Today I met up with Kate and her roommate at 6:40 am to take a bus to the countryside. All I really knew about the trip before I showed up was that, somehow, there were going to be sheep involved. I hadn't even met Kate's roommate yet! But the day ended up being a ton of fun.
We took a tour bus to the countryside 2 1/2 hours outside of Seoul. Our first stop was the Hyoseok Cultural Festival! It's...
Monday, September 8, 2014
Culture Chanel Exhibit
Somewhat on accident, a group of study abroad students and I wandered upon the Culture Chanel
exhibit at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza today! What a stroke of good luck! My Global Fashion Marketing teacher had actually even recommended the fashion students go to this exhibit if they got the chance, since it chronicles the work of Danielle Chanel. The exhibit...
Sunday, September 7, 2014
KChurch!
Today was my first experience at a Korean Church! And it was pretty awesome. My Mission Mentor, Borra, invited me to go to hers. At first I had a bit of a bad attitude about it, since it meant I had to wake up early to take an hour long subway ride by myself (including changing lines and everything! I'm so proud of myself for not getting lost). But it was totally worth it!
For the first service,...
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Korean Classes
Both fortunately and unfortunately, our week of hardcore tourism is over and classes have begun! It's nice to be able to relax a little more, rather than running around the city for 12 hours each day. However, I do miss the rush of fun activities. Classes have been very interesting though!
I've been lucky enough to have all of my classes taught in English. Some students are running into the problem...