Thursday, October 30, 2014

Time for update.

So I have not posted anything for about 3 and a half week .... Guess I have been pretty busy with school stuff and also just trying to do as much as possible, because it have kind of struck me that I only have about 7 and a half week left of my time in South Korea. I don't really like that and I envy those exchange students that will spend another semester here in Seoul. Not to happy about the fact that I will be going back to Sweden pretty soon ..... Anyways I am still enjoying everyday and will try to do as much stuff as possible before I go back. Tomorrow I will actually be going to the DMZ (demilitarized zone between North and South Korea) and next week I go to Taiwan for 5 nights :) 

But on to what I have been doing the last 3 and a half weeks .... Me and some friends where lucky to have been invited by Sam for a real home cooked Korean meal. It was really good food and cosy :) She served so many dishes and I do not remember what everything was now 3 weeks afterwards ^^. After that we went to an Arcade place and played some games. Played so much basketball so my arm was sore the day after.







That one so went in 
  Another day when I felt that the days where just running away I decided to take a solo excursion to a temple within walking distance from my dorm. I went to Changdeokgung palace, which is a Unesco World Heritage site. I actually thought that I had been to this place before, but that is because there are two temples right next to each other .... Earlier I visited Changgyeonggung and that is right next to this one. Anyway I liked Changdeokgung temple much more than Changgyeonggun, a lot more buildings and it felt more authentic than the other one. I wandered around there for almost 3 hours and soaking in the sunset. But I do need to go there again because they had already closed one of the main features of the temple which is a secret garden. Don't mind about going there again though :). Even do I went there by myself I had a lot of company from school kids that were running around the temple and talking and asking me stuff. Got attention from a group of 12 year old girls that kept addressing me as the "Handsome one" ^_^. Guess they were there on a field trip.












Found some friends



Another day I had the same feeling so I thought I would go to some Art museums for an entire day. 
First I went to Culture Station Seoul 284, which is the old train station of Seoul that is transformed into an art museum where different artist have exhibitions. Don't really remember the name of the artist but he was a famous one :) Then I went to Seoul Art Museum and on the way to the metro I stopped in front of the City Hall where they had an event. The yellow strips and everything there was in protest and memory of the ferry catastrophe that happen earlier this year. You can actually see these events all over Seoul. The people are not so pleased with what happen, and especially because no one knows.











Yellow ribbons for the ferry catastrophe 

Man with a grenade

    After that it was time for the long wanted World Championship Finals of LoL at the Seoul World Cup Stadium. South Korea is the country of E-games and of course they do it pretty big then. Think we were about 35 000 people watching the final. It was between a South Korean team against a Chines one. Imagine Dragons started and ended the event with some songs. When we arrived to the area we were so disoriented and tried to find the tickets office in order to collect or tickets .... probably wandered around for about 1 hour. But it was an awesome event and Final. 












Then I did have my birthday here in Seoul as well. It was pretty awesome :) I treated myself with some brunch and cake before I had a massage. Then during the evening about 35 people showed up with cake and some pimped up accessories. We went to a All you can eat and drink place before we went to Gangnam. It was a really good :) Awesome people over here!





Will make sure that I update the blogg more often now :) DMZ and Taiwan coming up next :) 

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