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| Traditional Korean Performance at Folk Village |
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| Kids playing on a see-saw |
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| Seoul Tower in the distance |
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| Taking pictures with fun Korean Hanbok board-people |
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Korean Folk Village (few pics)
Monday, February 7, 2011
Lunar New Year: Holiday!!!!!!!!
After 2 easy days of classes and the conclusion of my Winter Intensive course - Lunar New Year VACATION DAYS commenced. And holyshit did they take off on the right foot.
Tuesday Night: Got off work, went to Korean BBQ with the coworkers, and decided that this time... we'd get the soju with our meat. Vasuda can be thanked for that one. Dinner gets us tipsy and ready for some more-- so we tried a new place called Diva... where it seemed like a grand idea to pour 2 extra bottles of soju into our soju juice kettle. Slang-ed it up afterwards and continued with tequila. By the time we said goodbye to our friends heading to Hong Kong, it was 4am and we were saucy.
Wednesday: HUNG. OVER. woke up at 4:15pm, got ready, did it all again. But this time, Karen and I headed into Seoul for some fabulous American Chinese food at Ho Lee Chow. Delish.
Went to The Bungalow and hung out in the cute sandy room of the bar with swings and, well, bungalows I guess.
THEN I almost went home on the subway before it closed at midnight. Key word is almost. This was too unlike me, so as per usual, I stayed out all night with Becca and had another 6am bedtime. We had many fun discussions about sorority and fraternity life.
Thursday: Woke up at an awesome, acceptable hour. Made bacon and eggs with Becca-- delish.
Texted some peeps and Vasuda was of course doing something fun and touristy in Seoul- so I proceed to meet her at the Folk Village, last night's outfit and makeup and all! It was great, it was nice out, we went impulse shopping afterwards, and I felt like an accomplished human being.
.....that is until the decision that it was time for Ladies Night surfaced. Got home from spending money, got in the shower, and headed right back out to the subway. I swear it was like college all over again: out, recover, out, recover, maaaaybe go out, get ready, go out...
Ladies night in Itaewon ruled though. Free drinks for those with boobies and ginas yay!
Friday: So get this--- Karen meets a basketball player and he hooked us up with free tix to an SK Knights vs. KT Sonic Boom game. Come Friday, it was quite possible that I'd keel over, but who passes up sports events when you have free tickets?! Right, no one does. So Karen and I prance along to the subway yet AGAIN, this time during daylight. The game was all-around awesome fun. And they won, so that is a plus. I'll put up videos later!
Friday night was time to rest. But I think there was some 'going out' in there... can't remember.
Saturday: Back at it with a house party in Itaewon, followed by Dragon Hill Lodge Spa! <--This is an amazing Jimjilbang, which is basically a huge spa of hot baths, cold baths, body scrubs, a variety of massages, sauna rooms of all different temperatures and scents, infrared rooms, spa treatments, beauty treatments, food, health services, etc. etc. etc.!!! Basically it was loads of awesome, and I fully intend on returning for another body scrub and oil massage. Might even get a pedicure and eyebrow wax next time. Oh, and did I mention you're completely naked??
Tuesday Night: Got off work, went to Korean BBQ with the coworkers, and decided that this time... we'd get the soju with our meat. Vasuda can be thanked for that one. Dinner gets us tipsy and ready for some more-- so we tried a new place called Diva... where it seemed like a grand idea to pour 2 extra bottles of soju into our soju juice kettle. Slang-ed it up afterwards and continued with tequila. By the time we said goodbye to our friends heading to Hong Kong, it was 4am and we were saucy.
Wednesday: HUNG. OVER. woke up at 4:15pm, got ready, did it all again. But this time, Karen and I headed into Seoul for some fabulous American Chinese food at Ho Lee Chow. Delish.
Went to The Bungalow and hung out in the cute sandy room of the bar with swings and, well, bungalows I guess.
THEN I almost went home on the subway before it closed at midnight. Key word is almost. This was too unlike me, so as per usual, I stayed out all night with Becca and had another 6am bedtime. We had many fun discussions about sorority and fraternity life.
Thursday: Woke up at an awesome, acceptable hour. Made bacon and eggs with Becca-- delish.
Texted some peeps and Vasuda was of course doing something fun and touristy in Seoul- so I proceed to meet her at the Folk Village, last night's outfit and makeup and all! It was great, it was nice out, we went impulse shopping afterwards, and I felt like an accomplished human being.
.....that is until the decision that it was time for Ladies Night surfaced. Got home from spending money, got in the shower, and headed right back out to the subway. I swear it was like college all over again: out, recover, out, recover, maaaaybe go out, get ready, go out...
Ladies night in Itaewon ruled though. Free drinks for those with boobies and ginas yay!
Friday: So get this--- Karen meets a basketball player and he hooked us up with free tix to an SK Knights vs. KT Sonic Boom game. Come Friday, it was quite possible that I'd keel over, but who passes up sports events when you have free tickets?! Right, no one does. So Karen and I prance along to the subway yet AGAIN, this time during daylight. The game was all-around awesome fun. And they won, so that is a plus. I'll put up videos later!
Friday night was time to rest. But I think there was some 'going out' in there... can't remember.
Saturday: Back at it with a house party in Itaewon, followed by Dragon Hill Lodge Spa! <--This is an amazing Jimjilbang, which is basically a huge spa of hot baths, cold baths, body scrubs, a variety of massages, sauna rooms of all different temperatures and scents, infrared rooms, spa treatments, beauty treatments, food, health services, etc. etc. etc.!!! Basically it was loads of awesome, and I fully intend on returning for another body scrub and oil massage. Might even get a pedicure and eyebrow wax next time. Oh, and did I mention you're completely naked??
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