A day at the BallPark

The day has been about getting ready for the first day of the semester. Even though I'm not having any classes tomorrow I still have a lot of shit to dooo. But I was not going to spend my last day before school with that so me and Tomi (Roommate) decided to go out and find a good, authentic, cheap and close restraurant that serves Real Korean food. We totally succeeded :D

Really nice dish called Ddeokbokki. Looks like pasta but it is Korean rice-cake
in a spicy sauce. The texture is interesting, quite chewie and it has
 a little bounce to it when you bite it. 3000Krw (21kr) 

 And after that we had planned with some others to go and see a Baseball game which is really popular here in South Korea. It was the LG Twins VS Lotte Giants. This was my first baseball game ever and it was kinda what I expected (that it didn't happen to much) but the crowd surly made the experience. They were cheering like crazy, both teams had more or less the same amount of fans at the stadium so they all sang and cheered quite well. We rounded the day up by getting our first Korean street food meal which was really good, maybe on of the best so far but it could also be because the change of dining scenario (sitting on a bench on the crossroad).

Tomi in his nice plastic bag. Don't know why but they passed out thousands
 of orange bags that everybody blow up and put it on the head..... just like that. 

Amazing street food, some Korean version of fried dumplings,
one with vegetables and one with some meat (thinking chicken)
Payed 3000Krw (21kr) 

Just saw that I didn't add any pictures from the orientation day, so thought I should just throw some in with this post =) At the night all he buddies and the international people went to bar. We payed 150 00Krw (100kr) and got food and how much Soju and beer we could drink.

Soju: South Korean rise wine that is about 20%abv they
either shoot it or mix it with there beer ..... They say it tastes better but
I don't know. The Soju by it selves doesn't taste that much to be honest,
like weak vodka. But I like it :)  

My table, the one on my right side is my Buddie Park

Extra photo :D Tried out the school cafeteria the other day and was so happy about it, will eat there almost everyday.

So I'm finally settled in

Now I have been in Seoul since the 27th of Aug, the first days have just been about setteling in, buying supplies, trying out Korean food, orientationday at the university and attending several welcoming parties. Haven't had the chance to use my camera as much the first days but I'll post some pictures from yesterday.

Migaon Ville - This will be my home for the coming 4 months

And the Seoul Metro system which is the 5th longest metro system
in the world is something I kinda need to learn ASAP

Normally quite packed with people

I have been spending most of my time so far with Tomi (my roommate) and Eva.
Yesterday Eva's Korean friend showed us around, first to a really nice fried chicken restaurant,
then we took a stroll along a handmade river, had some Patbingsu (Korean Ice cream)
and then walked along the old City wall up to a park.  

Patbingsu: Which is a Korean shaved ice dessert, this one that we had is
obviously a Cheescake Patbingsu. What they do is that they "shave" the ice
in a special mixer and then add several ingredients. In this case a cheesecake piece,
creamcheese icecream, cream, and a couple of more things. Then you just mix and hack
 everything (doesn't look as good then) but its so packed with taste even though
there are a lot of ice in there. Seing myself having this many times during my stady here. 

Old city wall.

Up at the park which is a great viewpoint around Seoul.

So cheesy, but couldn't resist :P 

Why so serious :|

Today its the last day before school starts and there is a lot of stuff that needs to be fixed before I can get in to routine. One funny thing is that they request a x-ray of our chest for the dormitory students :S Anyhow I can't do much today so I'll be going to a baseball game at jamsil stadium with some other exchange students.

PICTURE'S OF KIMCHIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!
Well I needed a first post, and there couldn't be anything more appropriate than some a pictures of Kimchi, right?

So I thought that the name:The Kimchi Studies was kinda awesome, even though I never tried Kimchi (yet) or plan on writing too much about it. (Hope you find the name as funny as I did, otherwise it's kinda lame.)

Shortly Kimchi is a traditional fermented Korean side dish made of vegetables with a variety of seasonings. It is often described as spicy and sour, with hundreds of varieties made from napa cabbage, radish, scallion, or cucumber as a main ingredient. Kimchi also has many different kinds depending on the main ingredients. And it's Korea's national dish.

That's enough Kimchi for the moment. So I'm leaving Sweden for South Korea tomorrow and everything is settled, I'm just waiting in the hours and going through the few words in my head that I've been able to learn this summer by myself. I'm so excited that I'm finally going after 6 months of planning and waiting :D

Will get some real pictures for the next post when I have arrived :)