So it's been a while since I updated and thought that since I have a bit of a break in my phone teaching that I'd update with what's been going on in the last week and a half! ^^
Well the last time I posted it had snowed... and I was home after a very long day at Hair and Love. Well, Monday (11th) I had plans but those quickly got canceld... XD that's okay... whatever! haha! On Wednesday I met with my friend Sun in Hongdae for our Korean Language lesson. She's really cool and I really enjoy meeting up with her! Nothing really happened during that week cause I had school on Saturday (16th)... School on Saturday went pretty quick (thankfully...haha)... it was a half-day and so afterwards I met a friend to go to Hyehwa for a late lunch at McDonalds and then to Gwanghwamun (광화문) to check out Kyobo (bookstore) and see if we could go iceskating... unfortunately it was full at the hour we wanted to go and I couldn't go at the later time so we decided to make other plans. We were meeting a friend so we decided to head back to Hyehwa to our favorite galbi place... love love love galbi... hehe! So we ate galbi and then I had to leave to meet my friends at Seoul Station.
I met my friends to go to Lucky Seven Casino there in Seoul Station at the Hamilton. It was interesting... I've never been to a casino before so I didn't really know what to expect. My friends said it was a lot quieter than most casinos are because people weren't really talking... haha! But anyway so I was at the slot machines for a bit then we decided to head out... I won some money!... woohoo... then... I lost it... boo! but it's okay... it was fun while it lasted! ^^ After leaving the Casino, we decided to head out to Itaewon and see what it had in store for us... so we went to a bar with a bunch of friends and just chilled out. It was a friendly atmosphere and we headed home around 1 or 2...
Sunday I met up with Kelsey in Korea and we went off to Gwanghwamun again because I needed to return something to the book store (btw... the bookstore staff pretty much rocks cause anyone i talked to spoke English... haha). we looked around and then decided for dinner at On the Border in Samseong... which (me being smart) took us the long way to Samseong cause I thought Sinsa... HAHA it's okay... we got our food and over-stuffed... We checked out Coex mall and walked around for awhile. It was nice just hanging out!
On Monday, I met my friend Jei in Changdong and a new friend (to me) to eat some Dalk-Galbi... so delicious!! ^^ Afterwards, we went to Baskin Robbins and had some lattes and just chatted. Yesterday (19th), I met up with Jei and met some new friends for some Son-gap-sal... (spelling?? haha don't know but whatever)... it was delicious! ^^
Today is pretty much my catch-up on rest day! HAHA! I'm working on this phone teaching then heading home to have some yummy food!
^^ Hopefully I'll get back into updating smaller posts at a time... as opposed to weeks at a time!
Hope everyone is staying warm... Here it's going pretty good with weather... rain now... which makes snow slushy... haha but overall it's getting better to endure! haha!!
Thanx for reading!!!!
^^
Snowy times in Seoul...
This week was pretty normal besides the snow fall that I already talked about! Apparently, it's the first time in about 75 years that it's snowed this much here in Seoul! so crazy!?!!! Anyway... Friday night (1/8) after work, I met up with Kelsey in Korea to go see Avatar in 3D in Miasamgeori! We headed out and got to see it just at the time that I had wanted and good seats too!! Not too close but not too far away... kinda in the middle! haha those were the last 2 seats in a good area! haha! I was super excited!! ^^ Avatar was good. I enjoyed it! The 3D was definitely nice and cool!! ^^ After watching the movie, we decided to go out to dinner. We, both, had never been to Miasamgeori so we just walked around a bit and looked for a place... we found a really nice Chinese restaurant and enjoyed a great dinner! ^^ After dinner, we both headed home.
This morning (1/9), I woke up at about 8:00am to meet my friend at Sinsa station. After we met up and did a few errands we went to get some lunch before heading to get our hair done at Hair and Love in Cheongdam. Love Love LOVE this place! I would definitely recommend them. The owner speaks English and apparently so does his wife. This has been my 3rd time going but my friends all go there as well. So my friend and I headed there and got started on the all-day makeovers... haha. So, we got there at like 12:20pm. I was getting my hair chemically straightened (for the 1st time... haha) as well as my bangs touched up and a short trim. My friend was getting blonde highlights and a trim. about 20 minutes in, our friend arrived to also get her hair done. Haha so this place wasnt too packed which was good. ^^. My favorite guy was doing my hair for the most part and I really like his work. He apparently has been working on his english cause he said a bit more to me this time around! haha! So... it was a long day and process... i feel the need to explain what i went through just cause... haha!
After arriving, I had my hair washed. After washing, the chemical straightening was brushed in, pretty thorough. After that, they saran-wrapped my hair... hehe so attractive! Then he checked on it and put different saran wrapping after he put more chemical straightening. After a while (seriously a long while) and after being put under a hair dryer, I got my hair washed a 2nd time this time massage included. (that's what I love about Korea... you get a massage with your hair getting done... ^^.) afterwards, he started drying my hair and straightening... kinda going to test if the straightening worked... this took a while... believe me... afterwards... he says: okay wash now. i said again!? HAHAHA... so another wash... 3rd time... another massage. then i was sat on a waiting room chair as they dried my hair then they came after a little bit of waiting... they came and put in the bleach. After more waiting... haha (makes me think of 2PM's song Tired of Waiting...haha)... they then washed my hair for a 4th time... another massage (i'm really not complaining...haha!!) and then my hair was dried and what-not. After this, the owner came over and trimmed my hair and thinned it out. YAY! which means... YES... I'm finished!! (my 3 friends had already finished before me... haha)... took 7 hours... and 240,000 Won later! haha! I say the price because well I think it's a great price for everything I got done... a.) Hair Straightening, b.) Hair Bleaching, c.) Hair trim and thinning. So 4 washings.. and 3 massages included. ^^.
After the wonderful day at Hair and Love... we went out to meet some friends at On the Border in Coex for dinner. Yummy Mexican food... something I definitely miss about home... (my home haha... since my family is Mexican... ^^)...
Tomorrow... I don't really have any plans yet but maybe stay home and clean cause my apartment is super dirty! Haha! ^^
Hopefully this upcoming week is just as great!
^_^.
This morning (1/9), I woke up at about 8:00am to meet my friend at Sinsa station. After we met up and did a few errands we went to get some lunch before heading to get our hair done at Hair and Love in Cheongdam. Love Love LOVE this place! I would definitely recommend them. The owner speaks English and apparently so does his wife. This has been my 3rd time going but my friends all go there as well. So my friend and I headed there and got started on the all-day makeovers... haha. So, we got there at like 12:20pm. I was getting my hair chemically straightened (for the 1st time... haha) as well as my bangs touched up and a short trim. My friend was getting blonde highlights and a trim. about 20 minutes in, our friend arrived to also get her hair done. Haha so this place wasnt too packed which was good. ^^. My favorite guy was doing my hair for the most part and I really like his work. He apparently has been working on his english cause he said a bit more to me this time around! haha! So... it was a long day and process... i feel the need to explain what i went through just cause... haha!
After arriving, I had my hair washed. After washing, the chemical straightening was brushed in, pretty thorough. After that, they saran-wrapped my hair... hehe so attractive! Then he checked on it and put different saran wrapping after he put more chemical straightening. After a while (seriously a long while) and after being put under a hair dryer, I got my hair washed a 2nd time this time massage included. (that's what I love about Korea... you get a massage with your hair getting done... ^^.) afterwards, he started drying my hair and straightening... kinda going to test if the straightening worked... this took a while... believe me... afterwards... he says: okay wash now. i said again!? HAHAHA... so another wash... 3rd time... another massage. then i was sat on a waiting room chair as they dried my hair then they came after a little bit of waiting... they came and put in the bleach. After more waiting... haha (makes me think of 2PM's song Tired of Waiting...haha)... they then washed my hair for a 4th time... another massage (i'm really not complaining...haha!!) and then my hair was dried and what-not. After this, the owner came over and trimmed my hair and thinned it out. YAY! which means... YES... I'm finished!! (my 3 friends had already finished before me... haha)... took 7 hours... and 240,000 Won later! haha! I say the price because well I think it's a great price for everything I got done... a.) Hair Straightening, b.) Hair Bleaching, c.) Hair trim and thinning. So 4 washings.. and 3 massages included. ^^.
After the wonderful day at Hair and Love... we went out to meet some friends at On the Border in Coex for dinner. Yummy Mexican food... something I definitely miss about home... (my home haha... since my family is Mexican... ^^)...
Tomorrow... I don't really have any plans yet but maybe stay home and clean cause my apartment is super dirty! Haha! ^^
Hopefully this upcoming week is just as great!
^_^.
F.Cuz (Focus)...
Hehe... Because I can! Too cute!
Well... my school was canceled today (Jan. 4th) and now morning classes have been canceled for tomorrow... still no word on if afternoon will be canceled as well... We shall see I guess... unfortunately it means Saturday school for (2 Saturdays to be exact!... so far...) but i guess that is sorta okay cause i dont do anything on saturdays a lot of the times and if i do it's in the afternoons! Haha! The snow is crazy here! I like it but it's so cold!! Do you like the snow?? I'm staying pretty bundled and trying to get better cause i've been a bit sick. Things are sorta starting to look up for me... I guess we'll have to see how the rest of the week goes!
Everyone stay warm and hope the New Year has been good to you so far! ^^
Happy New Year! (^^)
New Year's was an interesting and fun night! Started out with getting together with my friends (Haylie and Toni) for a quick dinner in Jongno 3-ga. After having our quick dinner at Burger King, we got brave to go out into the cold at about 10:45 or so... well we started to walk towards Jongno 2-ga where I was told was where we should be. As we got close, we hit a group of people waiting for something. Well it took about 20 or so minutes standing squished against random Korean people and then have them tell us that we were going to be going the wrong way when they finally allowed to go in... THEN everyone turned around... and we all were pushed to the right direction trying to not fall down at the open spaces. Then we were pushed to another area where we had to wait just a little longer to go through a man-made gate. Soon i'll have fun videos of our pushing and shoving and being trapped. haha! but after we finally got through we got to see (sorta) a really cool show being put on. Singing, dancing, traditional drumming, and the heard the Bosingak bell being rung. It's hit 33 times for good fortune in Korea for the New Year at midnight! It was nice being with a gazillion Koreans and my friends counting down to the New year! ^^
After our fun adventure there, we decided to go and get some coffee and warm up cause it was pretty cold! After we got warm, we decided we wanted to check out a Jimjilbang because it was late (around 1:30 or so) and the subways wouldnt be running and my friends live a pretty long way away. So they asked at the Pascucci where a jimjilbang was close to us. After going around the block for a bit and asking a few different people at a few convenient stores, we finally found it. We went in and decided we would rest and just chill out. I've never been to a jimjilbang and so I was a little apprehensive but super excited! After sitting around, Haylie and I went into one of the hot rooms... about 76 degrees Celsius (168.8 degrees Fahrenheit)... brick walls and all so it kept the heat in pretty well... we lay down in there for a little bit and once we started to sweat we decided maybe it was time to go and that we might want to try the tubs... hehe! So after chatting about it for a little while Haylie and I decided we'd give it a try... thing with Korean saunas (jimjilbangs) is...well... you're naked. and not just naked... but you're naked with other people... haha! this sauna was not very busy so that's why we kinda decided to go ahead and jump in! hehe!
It was nice and relaxing. I enjoyed it and would definitely do it again! We stayed in the tubs for maybe 20 minutes or so because they were super hot! haha! We got ready to leave at 5 because we were hungry and then my friends were going to head out on the subway. Although McDonald's wasn't serving burgers, we headed back to Burger King and tried there. Afterwards we headed to the bus stop for me and then they were off to the subway.
Today I slept for a good amount of the day... haha and now watching I, Robot and working on getting pictures and videos up because it was a fun night!!
I hope everyone had a good night out and enjoyed counting down!
^^
After our fun adventure there, we decided to go and get some coffee and warm up cause it was pretty cold! After we got warm, we decided we wanted to check out a Jimjilbang because it was late (around 1:30 or so) and the subways wouldnt be running and my friends live a pretty long way away. So they asked at the Pascucci where a jimjilbang was close to us. After going around the block for a bit and asking a few different people at a few convenient stores, we finally found it. We went in and decided we would rest and just chill out. I've never been to a jimjilbang and so I was a little apprehensive but super excited! After sitting around, Haylie and I went into one of the hot rooms... about 76 degrees Celsius (168.8 degrees Fahrenheit)... brick walls and all so it kept the heat in pretty well... we lay down in there for a little bit and once we started to sweat we decided maybe it was time to go and that we might want to try the tubs... hehe! So after chatting about it for a little while Haylie and I decided we'd give it a try... thing with Korean saunas (jimjilbangs) is...well... you're naked. and not just naked... but you're naked with other people... haha! this sauna was not very busy so that's why we kinda decided to go ahead and jump in! hehe!
It was nice and relaxing. I enjoyed it and would definitely do it again! We stayed in the tubs for maybe 20 minutes or so because they were super hot! haha! We got ready to leave at 5 because we were hungry and then my friends were going to head out on the subway. Although McDonald's wasn't serving burgers, we headed back to Burger King and tried there. Afterwards we headed to the bus stop for me and then they were off to the subway.
Today I slept for a good amount of the day... haha and now watching I, Robot and working on getting pictures and videos up because it was a fun night!!
I hope everyone had a good night out and enjoyed counting down!
^^
