Hello everyone!!
I wonder if anyone reads this except Mina (thanks for reading the whole thing... u stalker! lol jk). But anyways. Last week-end, my friend Maki came from Yamaguchi (Japan) with a group of friends *much older than her* from the same city. They were staying at the luxurious President Hotel and offered me to stay with them, which was so nice! I feel a bit sorry and very thankful towards Murata-san (kinda the leader of the group) who generously paid most of my meals and the hotel fees for me... (Kansha itashimasu!) They had a very tight schedule, so as soon as they arrived, we got in business and had 삼계탕/Samgyetang (a small chicken in a soup). Then we watched the Guard ceremony at the Duksugung palace... Then, we went to 명동/Myeong-dong so that Maki-chan could do some shopping at the local make-up stores. ^^; Then, we had a delightful 밭빙수/Patpingsu (ice cream)... theeeeen we had dinner at that grill place. As the Japanese would say this trip was really "hanayori dango" (dumpling over the flower, meaning we privileged food over the arts)... Some pics of the food we had over the week-end:
At night, we went to the Chongdong theater to watch a traditional music and dance show called "Miso". Some parts were very artistic, some others very funny... Overall, it was very entertaining and visually stimulating. Here's a pic we took with one of the dancers (the hilarious guy):
At night, we met one of Maki's friends (whom she met in China when she went on an exchange): Wang Tae-Woong. It was interesting, cuz Maki was talking to him in Chinglish and he was replying in Chinese... And when they didn't get it, I had to translate to Korean or Japenglish... We could start our version of Esperanto with Asian languages! ^.^
The next morning, we woke up early, had some Juk (okayu), then went to the 창덕궁/Changdukgung palace (beautiful). Some Korean friends of the Japanese group joined us for our tour of the city: 경훈언니/Kyung-Hoon unni and the beautiful 이쁜유원언니/Yoo-Won unni. We went to Insadong and Myeong-dong together for food and shopping. It was quite nice to go around with them. They of course speak Korean and on top of that they speak excellent Japanese. I was amazed to hear them. I became a bit closer to them and we planned to see each other again in their hometown (춘천Chuncheon, 2 hour by train from Seoul). Maki's friend joined us later on too for dinner and 떡볶이/ddukbokki.
Yoo-Won unni stayed at the hotel that night and in the morning we all went for... Seollongtang soup. It was a bit heavy in the morning, but it was good! Then we went to E-Mart and Myeong dong (again!)... for souvenir shopping. It's kinda sad that we didn't go to Namsan tower (once again sorry to Murata-san who had planned so many things) but being all together was a lot of fun... Such good memories together!!! So good, that our beautiful Yoo-Won unni cried when we all parted! 완전 귀여웠는데... I didn't cry, but I sincerely hope I'll get to see all those people again (altogether too!)
Some pics of our happy times together:
5 Comments:
MEMEME! I am reading (once in a while) Why don't you link this to mixi?, so that everyone including me can notice that you update this.
You know what, I decided to re-start learning Chinese. I am gonna find a Chinese person whom I can exhange languages with. Mou, Ganabarushikanai! Otherwise, Wongtaewoong and I would never have conversation again :( Thanks for translating our funny conversation, by the way.
Ttyl
Maki
hmm i don't know how to link it to Mixi though T.T... wanna do it for me? hahaha
I don't know how to do it, either... but no.... forget about it
I don't know if I count but I glance over this from time to time; particularly since I don't use facebook anymore and you bring up some rather interesting reflections on your time in Korea.
Best,
Bob
Stop by to read sometimes. Get distracted.
Geez your hair looks nice long and you sound like your having a hella of a time.
Plus your pics are awesome. What camera do you use?
Anyways I like your blogging.
Crystal
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