Seoul Station was definitely the answer.

Location: Seoul
Weather: Freezing cold winds outside

Its that number of heavy flows in month, if you get what i mean. Yuck i really don't like the feeling especially when i get abdominal pain a lot. I purchased korean napkins which was promoted as a bulk box buy - both regulars and overnights. They're VERY thin but pretty good quality. As to why i'm writing about this i don't know, just a little FYI i suppose. :)

Today was jampacked with schedules. I only had two classes today: Global and Intercultural Identities and International Business Law.
* Just a little note: how can globalization's ideal of having a mulitculturalistic world be achieved when trend sprout up in parts of the whole, i dunno, everyday? This must really pose some serious obstacles for community and the ideal utopia.

Love, love, love the price for photocopied books for Global and Intercultural Identities in additional the xerox unni was nice enough to have picked such cute colors for the front covers! As for international business law - ONLY ORIGINAL - paid a huge WWW for those books and they're so heavy but like we have a choice right? I also joined in my e-class today on Theory and Practice in Media Literacy. For those of you who finds this rather new: e-class is technically an online class where assignments, discussions on a created forum in the school's portal is held, and readings as well as videos from our professor all the way in Japan are offered especially to Ewha students. :)

Oh and for lunch i had some WARM NOODLES check it out.



Then we tried calling KORAIL to book tickets for our trip back to Seoul from Gyeongju. The information office said we couldn't use our room's phones for outside calls so she suggested the public phones just outside the dormitory convenience store. It kept rejecting our calls, ultimate NO! Anyway, we asked the IHouse information office and the unni there said the fastest way is to go to Seoul Station itself and buy our tickets there. SO WE DID LIKE LITTLE CHILDREN OBEDIENTLY FOLLOWING THE TEACHER'S INSTRUCTIONS.

Getting there: ALWAYS ride the subway!

Once we got there it was a walk full of hopeful turns - we were searching everywhere for the information area not understanding the arrows in the Seoul Station map. But we found it. The girl was nice but she told us that the trip I have continuously checked almost everyday in the KORAIL website is not available - like it was permanently sacked. NO WAY!!!! Can you just imagine the unexplainable looks on our faces?! We have to get back PRONTO before 8AM the next day to Ewha WE HAVE OUR CLASSES TO ATTEND!
* The cuts system here is different from that of ADMU.

The girl pleasantly lead us toward the ticketing counter just beside saying that they have more information. (fingers crossed) They did! The ticketing woman patiently looked for that specific trip and there it was DEPARTING GYEONGJU: 11PM ARRIVAL SEOUL: 4:22AM! Happiness plus relief went obviously through my entire face seriously. :)

With everything taken care of, it's PHOTOGRAPHY time!





















Soon after taking a picture of the KORAIL i dunno what you call it, these two korean guys approached us. At first, we were hesitant. After a while, we became chingu. They said they were from this university (which up to now i still forget and couldn't pronounce) and offered to take our picture with the three of us together. How thoughtful of them to offer, I thought. But that wasn't all, soon after they asked if they could take a picture of each of us - shocker. I pushed chesca to go first since that was quite hard for me to digest. FYI, in the chit-chat, they told us they were photography majors. (This is why i couldn't grasp the idea of why would they ask a picture from us) The pictures are obviously not uploaded since they have the photo. But i really do wish I could've gotten it - seemed like a good photo taken with their professional cameras and all. A weird instance in our little chat i noticed was when I said we are exchange students from Ewha, they were amazed (went like "WOAH" with a korean tone). They did ask us as their first question where we were from - I guess we had a TOURIST post-it pasted on our faces. :) Nice experience. Oh I asked if we could take a picture with them just for you guys to see! :)


*taken by the boys



Decided to return to school after.

Here's a photo of my korean phone:





and my dinner: (very healthy i must add)



xoxo