Monday, March 28, 2011
/ 9:29 AM
Gosh....
been TWO YEARS SINCE I LAST BLOGGED!!
haha, i guess facebook really took over my life
and things starts becoming recorded in fb statues and pics liao
haha, but now tt i'm back (and hopefully not to dissappear so soon)
I wanna record down the things tt happened in korea from my own memory and in my own words down (:
(yup, ignore the fact that it has already been 2 months since i came korea heheh)
well, in case future me doesnt understand whats happening and happens to rd this blog, i shall recap the things that happened
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i cld simply copy and paste my email to my aunt describing my life in korea (:
Wk2:
I've settled nicely in Kaist, Areum Hall already (: My roomie is this really nice girl call Keum Sil. She is a Chinese korean and inititally i didnt know so we had some awkward conversations in English. But after finding out she speaks chinese, it has been our main choice of communication (: The International relations team (IRT) here is really friendly and do their best to help exchange students so settling down here is made easier. I got to know alot of other exchange students through their orientation programs and became especially close to fellow NUS exchange students ( there were 6 other nus students on exchange here) so we went to Seoul together on the first weekends .
At the start of the Seoul trip, there was some miscommunication and we got separated into 2 groups on the first day but we managed to meet up on the 2nd day and travel safely back to my school KAIST together (: My group consisted of Me, Silvia, Phyllis and Jiun Tat. It was a good thing we split the 2 guys up into each group but after this we are going to make sure we all had a hp with each group. Anyway, we went to Cheongpyeong for their winter festival and tried their winter fishing (the pic i'm with a hole, no success ):), then we went to Dongdaemun for some night shopping before sleeping in a bath house. The bath hse was a real culture shock as the people were all naked but otherwise, it was a good and cheap place to sleep and relax. Next day we meet up with the others and went to Myeongdong (did more shopping ) before heading back haha (: Must say the transport to seoul is pretty expensive, costing S$20+ to and fro.
Korea also celebrates CNY but during those 2 days, all the shops are closed (even the eateries and rubbish bins!). Luckily for exchange students, there was a pizza place in KAIST call DDDN pizza and the IRT asked the shopkeeper to provide free pizza for our lunch and dinner. So on the first day of CNY, we simply spent it waiting for our free pizza LOL! We also tried a bar nearby KAIST tt night and an Indian guy, DAS drank too much and vomited. 2nd day of CNY was spent at Kumdori land which is a theme park and then went to a cheap Singapore Noraebang (KTV) near the bar we went the previous night. Kumdori land was only S$12 thanks to the IRT people and there was free dinner (: I only tried the Viking ship and a few other kiddie rides tho.. I was too majorly scared out of my wits after the viking LOL! i think i'm really getting old =X 13 people went for the noraebang and each only paid S$1+ for 2 hours (: However it was really hard to select songs as they are all arranged according to their song titles instead of singer.. and their MVs were all fake.. they use movie/drama scenes instead (mayb that's y it's so cheap). 3rd day, we had BBQ outside KAIST. The pork is really v nice!! 4th day, we simply shopped at homeplus (a place like sg Giant). Rather uneventful n different CNY i must say =X
