my korean textbook

Ta-da! that's my korean textbook! looks cool right? there are 6 levels, soleha's 4!!! My korea's teacher is really nice, she's pregnant also, but subtlely fierce.. hmm.. but still.. i've learnt a lot! We're gonna start on the korean alphabets tomorrow! so.. i think i'll learn how to write tomorrow!

2nd class

Okay, i have to admit that i was in a super horrible mood this morning.. mainly because of a particular person or persons. So breakfast was horrible, but i really loved today's class! It was a discussion for the movie that we watched yesterday. I think it reminded me of the good old days where i had my literature classes.. The discussion was fruitful and it was really thought-provoking, so i liked it. And it certainly made my day better. Forgot to tell you, it was raining this morning .. so hmmm... very mah fan.

Oh, and i managed to take a photo of my professor through the webcam thing, so here he is! on the far left of the screen.

Not so clear, but this is the best that i can do. When he comes next week, i'll take a better photo.

And here's what we have for lunch.. after second thoughts, i think we're spending a lot on food.. so i'm gonna like have bread for dinner if possible, or something else that is not such a huge meal, if you guys get what i mean.

Hmmm.. okay so these pics are what we've eaten for today, still good stuff nevertheless, and as usual, full shots and my personal favourite of the close-ups!

This is the kimchi kimbap with no meat!

Miso soup (free), tastes like lotus soup actually.

Kimchi side dish (free), i've never told you guys, but it actually taste like chicken rice, i don't know why, but it gives me the feel of chicken rice taste.

Ahh... okay, poor quality, my hand was shaking, maybe the food was too good, Ha! erm... this is the beancurd side dish (free).

Another side dish, this is called oden, and its fishcakes. So another fish side dish! nice!

Another side dish! potatoes! (free)

This is soleha's meal, the rice that's mixed with everything one.

This is curry rice that i shared with the other 2 persons. Hmmm... but i only ate one mouth of this actually.

And this is udon! erm.. i forgot what flavour it is, and this one is really spicy! so that's y the other 2 person didn't really touch it, and was sour too. But it isn't bad.. for me i think spicy food keeps me full, not because i drink a lot of water, in fact i didn't! But because it burns up the stomach, i feel fuller, in a good way yeah? And the total we spent here is 13000 won, which is S$15. So if you do the math by dividing it by 4, it ain't that bad also.

Tuesday's Instant Dinner

I told willette that i'll post a picture of my instant udon noodles for dinner yesterday, so here it is!
nothing fantastic though! but it was nice.. spicy.

First class

Started our first class today! Taking creative mind in life, so its pretty philosophical, professor asked lots of questions that seemed unanswered for me. Anyway, there's a stand-in lecturer because our lecturer will not be in Seoul till next monday, so we conversed through skype. He's quite funny and nice, and really old, bascially he just kept everyone thinking about life issues really, early in the morning some more...

I didn't take a lot of photos, only one of the classroom of where i was seated.

Here's our lunch! hee.. pizza...

this is a potato pizza, its really good though! we asked for the version without meat cause soleha can't eat.

And this is the cheese pizza, its damn nice.

And not forgetting, the close-ups!

And the brand of the pizza...

Oh and by the way, the pizza cost 11000 won, which is about $12.70, divide by 4 people ok?? We ate 4 slices each.

Its so tiring everyday now, the walking is crazy, and now that we're back.. we dun even have 2 hours to rest... have to get back to sch for a placement test for our korean lessons. Timetable is really horrible... i'll show u guys if possible.

Saturday's Dinner

Ok, i know i gave you the photos of whatever i ate yesterday, but i think i just have to do it again!

This is the place where we had our dinner, its kinda small actually but its really nice though!

This is like a free appetizer, similar to coleslaw, and its really nice =)

This one is soleha's meal, the seafood udon, i took it immediately when it arrived, so you can see the whole thing boiling. Oh and did i tell u that the waiter was really helpful? I think he knows that soleha can't eat pork, so he was telling her which dishes were with pork in it, and when they conversed.. it was really cool, cause i think he was quite surprised that soleha was able to speak Korean.

This one is Chloe's meal , the pork with curry and cheese on top, if you look at it, its boiling too! Oh and their pork is damn good, it doesn't get stuck on your teeth and its really tender, not those tough ones like char siew we get back home...

And tada, i took a better shot of my meal! Its pork cutlet with kimchi and cheese, i know it may not sound that nice, but hey, it really taste good! It was a good mix actually, and kimchi does not taste that bad at all. But.. It was quite spicy though, so... i'm training my tolerance for it!

Finally, our fried udon, it doesn't look spicy right? But surprising, this is the most lethal one out of every other dish. This was really spicy, even more spicier than mine. Basically, me, Geri and Chloe shared our dishes, oh and we had a bowl of rice as well. So that's really a lot of food!

And this is our complimentary dish!ITS FREE! i think we're the only ones who got it! So nice right?

So all in all, we spent 27800 won for this meal, go do the calculation online or something, and its like S$8 per person if i'm not wrong.

Took this picture on our way back, was really full, so we really took a long and slow walk back!

Walk to SKKU

We tried walking from our dorm to SKKU, and its really really awefully far! at least 30mins walk, and we spent like an entire hour just walking around the school becos its so huge, its really big, with so many faculties and there are so many slopes, uphills and downhills here and there... there's just a really huge amount of walking to be done. And there are also lots and lots of shops throughout the entire journey, just think heeren times 1000, all the shops are really interesting and nice, i took quite a number, so have fun browsing!

This is a family mart just opposite our dorm from where i'm standing. Its sort of like a 7 eleven convenience store.

And from here on, i'll just show u some pictures i took along the way from the dorm to school.

Oh and these kind of flowers? There are a bunch like this at every lamppost.

And i think this is like a side gate to one of the palace along the way, i'll try and go visit it soon!

Oh and look at this, one of the trees, weird trunk right?

And this is another part of the palace i think, the main entrance is under renovations.

And we also pass by a science museum along the way...

From here on, i think we are moving into the smaller streets.

Basically there will be these kind of shop houses along the way to school. Its like the entire stretch of streets, and they have really cool shops. Their cake shops are really nice too! i didn't get to take a pic, but i'll take lots more throughout the semester =)

So now, we proceed on to an intersection between the streets. Actually according the survival kit that SIM gave us, we were supposed to walk along this route, BUT, we realised that we could have walked further down the street and get to the main gate of the school. So when we continue on along this way, its like an uphill climb and we end up at the side gate to the law faculty instead. Take a look!

Tada! That's the side gate i was talking about, from now on, i'll be showing u pictures i've took of the campus, i think i gave Willette some, but i'll post up everything anyway.

This is the LAW faulty!

This is the soccer field.

Basketball court

This is called the Hoam Hall i think, not sure what is it used for yet.

I think its not very visible, but there's this board some where in the middle, its actually like those big lcd screens that you see on suntec.

This is kind of like a lounge area for students i think.

And this will be where we'll have our orientation on monday.

Looks cool right? This 600th anniversary building will be where we'l lhave to meet first. So we'll be like having orientation at 930, then we'll have classes at 130 if i'm not wrong.

And there you see, we have to walk all the way down....

This is directly outside school, after making it all the way down, i'm taking this pic from the main gate. So you will just see this kind of little shops everywhere down the entire street. Really cool.

And then we went to a mini mart, and these are what i found =)

I think these are really fascinating man. Oh and even with soleha around, it seems like people assume we can speak korean, which is really weird... even though we converse around loudly in english so that they know, but nope, they assume we know how to speak korean.