yea...that just happened.

my first weekend in seoul was DEFINITELY an experience. wow. let's see, where to start. well friday night a bunch of us teachers went out to unwind after a long week, so i def slept in saturday, woke up and ate lunch with ernest and watched anime until about 4ish, being super lazy. we met up with erick and chris and got on the seoul bus at about 7:40pm? we got into seoul past 9pm cuz of traffic and we were pretty hungry...so we got some japanese ramen!! 

seriously? soooo good~ they had 4 different kinds, we tried 3 of them: shouyo, miso, and donchokosomethingsomething. anyways they were all really bomb~~ we also got yakisoba and hot sake...that yakisoba was the besttt i've ever had fo sho. i definitely want to go back cuz they have a huge menu...i wanted to order like 10 different things.

we checked into our hotel at 11pm, which was actually a love motel HAHAHAHAH so there was like condoms next to the bed and...

a window to the shower!!! HAHAHAHAH wtheck right!? well me and ernie were sharing a room so we just hung the blanket off of the air conditioning to cover it..but it was hilarious. ernie and i could not stop laughing while looking through the room. but it was hecka nice besides all that...ecky love stuff [my best friend's wedding reference]...

anyways after dropping off stuff, we headed out to 동대문 at about midnight, and would alternate between shopping and eating/drinking...we finally got to drink in a 포장마차 which was like one of my dreams hahaha and we ate 순대볶음 for 안주 and i definitely thought of you eunji! =( and was sad. it was good, i know you would have loved it. oh and erick taught us about shanties, which is mixing beer with cider, which is reeeeally delish!

when we finally were done....it was this light out. it was about 5:30am, the stores were finally closing, but there was still maddddd people outside! seriously no matter what hour it is, it is crowded in seoul...i was amazed. that's a street cleaner. bless his heart.

we headed to our hotel and slept til about 2pm...erick told us to turn this knob all the way to the right for the a/c but it was actually the floor heater so when i woke up and got out of bed, i burned my feet off. why would they even let it go that high???? anyways when we got up, guess what we did? shop some more! i honestly don't think i've ever shopped this much before in my life. i think this weekend we shopped for a total of 10 hours at least. easily.

i found the vijayjay pants, oonj! and guess where??? at zara of all places! yea...your favorite color too. they're 25,000won so i shall get us matching ones once payday comes around hahaha it will be....too awesome.

that is chris. this is in 명동, i believe. i can be wrong because i was just blindly following erick around. i ended up buying 4 shirts, sunglasses, SWEET new chucks, earrings, and lots of socks. which doesn't seem like much after 10 hours of looking at floor after floor after floor after floor but i definitely feel the emptiness of my wallet. i dropped some serious cash this weekend. mostly on food, drinks and travel. gotta eat caf food as much as possible for a while cuz we tentatively planned another seoul trip for the 28th!

gotta get street food! can you see my face is getting fatter? this beautiful thing is a potato. i love it. i also had pineapple on a stick and a corndog that is coated with french fries [genius!]. and some crazy korean hairy candy [see below].

they put all these new glass panels into the seoul stations because of the recent rise in suicide rates in korea...to keep people from jumping in front of trains. that made me really sad.

it was ern's first time on a subway. he was very excited.

on the last train home back to 용문...*cue lostprophets song*

i still don't like shopping in korea very much because of the aggressive salespeople. and high pressure buying situations. i am a very laid-back shopper but that just doesn't cut it here. erick kept saying "girl, get your fighting gloves on!" not my style at allll. but im learning to embrace it, i love shiny new things too much...