Wow...apologies for not writing anything for so long. Lessons have officially started - as in, since we can't add any more classes to our schedule the teachers have finally started to teach some substantial material. Which also means homework and studying have commenced. I can imagine your faces right now. What? Homework? Esther? STUDYING? Yes...sigh...it's true. I have conformed to the Korean education system and am now anxious about staying ahead of classes. My mum will be so proud.
On Sunday, a group of us decided to go to Namsan Tower/Seoul Tower to have a look around. The weather was kind of cloudy that day, so we spent thirty minutes in the lobby of our dormitory apartment trying to figure out whether to go or not. In the end we did, and we had fun.
When we got there, half of the group took the cable car up while the other half walked 30 minutes up the stairs. Guess which group I was in? That's right, because my legs were so tired from walking around on Saturday, I decided to kill them even further and take the stairs. Honestly it wasn't that bad. When you're with a large group of people, the atmosphere is so different than trudging up steep stairs by yourself. There were a lot of people there that day, and lots of activities going on such as a traditional Korean play, a man playing on the flutes and lots and lots of food stalls set up everywhere.
Namsan Tower is also famous for it's wall of love-locks. For those who don't know, couples will buy locks from the shops up there (or take their own lock because it's cheaper) and write little messages on them. They put the lock either on a tree or on the fence along the wall, and then throw the key away as a testament of their ever-lasting love. We had a few couples in our group, but I think only one couple bought a lock. The couple in my pictures isn't from our group, by the way. They were a random couple which I asked to take photo of. The girl was like "Oh? Why......???" but the guy was like "Sure!" I ended up taking a photo for them on their camera as well. Bless me and my great camera skills.
I'll give a short summary of what's happened this week, but unfortunately I didn't bring my camera around with me so no photos.
1. Monday: I attended a class called International Communications for the first time. Even though the lecture is in Korean, the teaching materials are in English, and the professor also tries to throw in some English for the exchange students benefit every now and again. Speaking of which, the professor took the exchange students out for coffee after class on Monday as a sort of orientation to his class, and also to get to know us. There were three exchange students and another Korean girl who had returned last year from living in Canada for seven years, so we all kind of chatted for a bit. Ji Eun, the Canadian girl, also happens to be in most of my classes which means I now have at least one friend in all my classes :)
2. Tuesday: Another first time class - 'pre-production'. In this class, we're going to learn about making a short film and writing synopses. Because I'm trying to learn about everything going on in media, I figured taking this class would help me with the behind-the-scenes camera and footage area. I've always been interested in this kind of field anyway, so I love it. On Tuesday night, Sonya (American-Korean exchange student) told us she had heard about this AMAZING spaghetti place near our dorms and that she had gone there at lunch time but was turned down because it was too full, so she wanted to go for dinner. It ended up being as good as she said, and by the time we left there was a huge line waiting to get in.
3. Wednesday: At night time, I finally visited COEX. I don't know if we actually went to the right place though, because COEX is supposed to be massive, right? The place we went to was big, but it wasn't that big. Either way, Sonya and her boyfriend wanted to buy a pair of Toms from Åland so we did.
4. TODAY: I went shopping at Idae today. I'm going to Hongdae tonight. Happy tiiiiiimes :)
P.S. There were a lot of children running around at Namsan Tower on Sunday, so I took some photos of them. There's something about children which seriously tickles the insides of me and makes me all happy and joyful. Plus they have amazing clothes and can pull off anything.
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