Hongdae!

Delaney and I went to Hongdae (홍대) yesterday and I...spent a lot of money.

I love churros.

Bought the wrong phone case size like are you kidding me. I got a Kumamon hat! I really like Kumamon...it's a shame that it's a Japanese thing so I don't see it much here... But I found a store there that actually sells clothing that fits my hips! It was a fun trip though, we navigated like pros (until we went out the wrong exit of the station to find the bus stop). Our next destination will be Itaewon!!!

Here, enjoy some random photos.

Basically we mess with Snapchat filters all day.

Skyped with the girls too! Two and a half hours spent chatting instead of preparing for the next class I had.

We love food. So true.

Let's Eat

KRISPY KREMES OH GOD YES they were so good. I mean I only got the plain glazed kind, but they're my favorite so hush. They were beautifully delicious.

Bountiful glory this here package was. The chocolates have since been annihilated, with the help of friends of course. The cookies are gone too... But I definitely needed it, that's for sure. 

So Rebekah comes from a military family, which means she has a military ID, which means she has access to the bases and certain things people like me do not have. Which also means she can buy food and products from America!

I hope next time she'll drag me along, woohoo!

Yes, this is watermelon soda. And yes, it is as terrible as it sounds. It's that disgusting fake watermelon flavor and I knew when I bought it that I'd be disappointed. I just want to be able to say, hey, I've had watermelon soda!

These! They have the consistency of pancakes and it's full of red bean paste. Super delicious actually.

These are pretty good for being packaged brownies. Packaged brownies are never as good as the real things of course, but again, this was pretty great. I mean, it's 52% cocoa!! Wow!!

Delaney took me to Mr. Chef (I think that's the name of the restaurant). This is basically bulgogi in soup form. It was really good, especially since we ate it on a cold rainy day.

This is literally a bunch of strawberries pureed and it was sour and delicious and kinda expensive.

Bought some stuff from Missha. The eye shadow is super pretty and and I really like the sleep mask too. It's really liquidy so you don't need much which meeeeeans, it'll last me a long time. Plus it was on sale, which is always a huge plus in my book. I also got a clay mask for moisturizing, but I haven't been able to use it since I don't want to scare my roommate and she's always here.

Midterms and the Hospital

It was my friend's birthday! What a fun day we had.

Lookin' cute with her matching skirt and birthday hat.

Mm, not so much for me though.

We went to a karaoke room where Rebekah has been a few times. The lady there is so nice, she gave us free water and 3 hours of singing for free. We only paid for an hour, so literally sang for four hours and I lost my voice so bad since I was sick.

As pretty as these cakes were....they don't taste very good. Too much whipped cream and really bland. But extremely pretty and also really cheap.

I love meat. Too much. I'm really going to miss this when I get back to America, because man we need this there.

Waffle! Chocolate syrup and frozen yogurt (which they like to call ice cream but do not be fooled).

Tulip garden by Suwon Station!!

Our campus is blooming and it's so beautiful, like wow. When I first got here and it was winter, the campus was so ugly but I mean what do expect from dead grass and naked trees? I'll be sure to take more pictures when everything is in full bloom.

Alright. So for like the past three weeks I've been sick with allergies that turned into an ear infection. At our school, we have a hospital on campus and that hospital has a VIP International room where they speak beautiful English. The lady there led me up to the ENT office to get my ear examined. As you can see, they put a heart by your name while you wait. When your name is green, it means you're next and you go sit by the room. You can clearly tell which one is mine. 

I had to take a hearing exam which was like $50... The nurses don't speak any English, but the doctor spoke flawlessly. It was interesting when I went to go do the hearing exam. I had to figure out what the nurse just told me in Korean... Thankfully, a lot of the staff there saw our confusion and stepped in to help. We had to get a waiting number, pay for the exam, give the paper to the examiners, and then wait an hour for the exam. Then I had to visit the doctor again and get my prescription printed. Afterwards, we had to get my pills at any pharmacy (which was nice and pretty easy and cheap, about $10). Over all I spent about $100 at the hospital and I'm hoping when my insurance issue gets resolved, I can be reimbursed for it all. And I also hope that that's the only visit to the hospital I make.

And of course, this happened the day before midterms began, this past Tuesday. Midterms killed only a little bit. Everyone's been pretty darn busy though. So these past few weeks have been really lame and boring. 

Our little study group before our history exam, which, after stressing over it for two weeks, turned out to be not so bad.

I've completed and survived all of my exams and now I get to focus on all of the crappy assignments history has piled on top of my lifeless body.

Han River Cherry Blossom Festival

The weather wasn't the best, sadly. The air quality was horrible that weekend and it was a little chilly so I regret wearing shorts that day... But it was really fun!

This was honestly the best chicken I've had since I've been here, like this is the best oh my god. The original plan was to order chicken and eat by the river, but it was chilly and I stupidly wore my shorts so. I don't really regret that though because man that chicken was worth it!

Yay for aesthetic photos!

I went into this department store. My first time in one and well...I can afford a pair of socks, actually, but that's it.

Anyway, it was quite fun going there and I really enjoyed it! I rode one of those tandem bikes. It's super easy when you ride in the back, but when you ride in the front of the bike it's super hard. I almost drove right into a pedestrian, whoops. What a fun day that was!!