Friend = cheen-goo 친구
Foreigner = ooee-gook-in 외국인 (for that first sound, it's like putting 'oh' and 'ee" together...almost like a 'w' sound)
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Candace Kimi Sakamoto
캔데스 키미 사카모토 カンデス きみ 坂本 |
I journeyed back to Itaewon again today to catch the last day of the festival. The crowd of people was like a million times bigger than when I came on Friday!! Even more of the streets were closed down and there were packed people everywhere on the sidewalks and spilling into the streets. There was a bigger parade today, with what looked like cultural dancers and exhibitions from different countries. It was really interesting to watch! For lunch I went to a place called Rotolo's. They specialized in these cool things that were like half pizza slice and half calzone. I got the combo rotolo which had like ham, olives, lettuce, pepperoni, cheese, etc. in it and it was BOMB. All crispy and thin on the outside and yummy on the inside :) After lunch I went back out to the main street in time for another parade, of historical and cultural costumes of Korea it looked like. I also made a new friend Hyojoon, who was the random person next to me that I asked to take a picture (of me and the cool costume guy!!). It turns out he speaks English and he doesn't even study it!! I was impressed. He is one year older than me and lives in Itaewon, so he says he just picked it up from listening around town. We had fun following the parade down the street until there were too many people and we couldn't see it anymore :( Darn foreigners...heh. On a side note...they're already on Mario Kart SEVEN here in Korea?!? What? When did this happen? Or are we just lagging hardcore in America?? Festival = cheh-chuhn 제전
Friend = cheen-goo 친구 Foreigner = ooee-gook-in 외국인 (for that first sound, it's like putting 'oh' and 'ee" together...almost like a 'w' sound)
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Gooood morning :) Today as I was crossing a major street, the little green man was up but for some reason I saw people sprinting across the road, not walking. So I did what all people who have no idea what they are doing should have done- RUN FOR MY LIFE. Once I'd reached the other side almost immediately cars began flying past me. Turns out this little man didn't have numbers to count down on it and apparently all Koreans are born with a built-in counter and know when to saunter slowly and when to haul ass. So moral of the story- when in a foreign country, monkey see? MONKEY DO. And do fasssssst... @.@ On the sidewalks, there are deliverymen who regularly zoom around. They are fast and they are aggressive so you just have to learn to notice them and avoid them. I've also heard about how the Korean standard of personal space is different from the American one...this is very very true. They get riiiiiiiiight up in your business in shops and stuff, while I'm mentally squirming away in discomfort. It's not that they're being weird or anything, it's just different than what I'm accustomed to. For example, when I'm waiting in line the people behind me will be so close to me they are putting pressure against my backpack...and not moving. I keep turning around because I think they are tapping me to get my attention or something lol; in America you don't stand anywhere near close enough to be pushing against your back constantly. On the sidewalks too, people will pass you by brushing up against you even though there's plenty of room on the sidewalk. It's not that they are being rude, they just don't think a deviation in their path of walking is necessary. When I'm waiting at a crosswalk I've turned to my left or right and been startled to find a man or woman literally in my face (I'm talking like the kind of close to your face you reserve solely for your boyfriend/girlfriend/grandma here; I could count the nose hairs in this guys nose once he was so close -.-). They are usually just peering around me at something or gazing off at something, but I was disconcerted to find that even when I noticed they were there, started a little, and looked at them, THEY DIDN'T MOVE. They just chilled there, far too close to my face for comfort, apparently completely at ease. What. When I walk down the stairs of the subway I've often had to shoot quickly to the right or left to avoid incoming adjummas or adjusshis who are zooming haphazardly across the stairs like diagonally on a collision course for me. Instead of walking straight down to give others room (think of like a ski slope; you hate those slow people who zoom alllll the way horizontally across the slope, then allll the way back, effectively preventing anyone from passing them) they just walk down whichever way they want, even if they end up practically on top of someone's back or at their elbow. I've been startled a few times to notice someone was like on top of me and I've instinctively moved away so they had more room to go down. I don't know if this is making any sense, it's kind of hard to explain this concept without seeing it for yourself. It's just strange to me...keeps me on my toes haha. Also, they don't say sorry when they bump you or push against you by accident. I was expecting this since a lot of my Korean friends told me this. It's not that they are being rude or anything, it is just such a common and unavoidable thing in such a busy, crowded city that the people take it as normal to be jostled or run into. My friends told me I'd be looked at weird and thought of strangely if I said sorry when I ran into people, but I can't help it lol, even in American society I'm super polite by nature. I say "chue-song-hab-ni-da" before I even realize I've said it -.- Whatever. Better to be that weird overly polite foreigner than that super rude foreigner, right? Subway = chi-ha-chul 지하철
Store = soh-jahng 저장 Their subway is underground in my area of Seoul (deeeeep underground; I literally go down at least 7 flights of stairs and 2 escalators down to get to the subway. Not joking). But in other areas it is far above ground! I didn't realize this until I took the subway out of my little patch of Seoul. The view of the city is breathtaking! You can see the Han River and all it's bridges, and the many buildings and signs. Next time I will post pictures of the view on the other side during sunset. It's so peaceful...I know I look like such a foreigner gawping out the window on the subway while everyone else plays on their phones or sleeps, but whatever :)
And literally EVERYONE is on their phones or else sleeping on the subway. No exceptions, it's really weird. Young kids, old grandpas, businessmen, mothers. All playing on their giant Samsung tablet phones with their cool brightly colored phone cases (they all use a type here that has a flap over the front, so you flip the cover off and then use it...like an iPad cover).
I've noticed I rarely ever see kids around on the streets or subways. I'm talking any kids, ages 0-14. It's Saturday today, and I've noticed a TON of (completely and utterly adorable) little ones toddling about with their parents. Strange since I could count the number of children I've seen this far all week on one hand. It finally dawned on me that its Saturday so the parents don't have work and can bring the little ones out. The question is how come I still don't see slightly older kids? Like 2nd grade age or middle school? Does Korea have school on Saturdays like Japan? I wouldn't e surprised, I would seriously have cracked long ago if I was a student here in Korea. They take it SERIOUSLY @.@
This post is specially for my youngest little cousin in Hawaii who is visiting California soon with my Aunty Lani. I will unfortunately be missing her visit since I am somewhat far away from home right now lol. I heard she was so sad I wouldn't be there, and I wanted her to know that I miss her! I would have loved nothing more than to take her around Disneyland all day; we would've had a blast :) Can I get a rain check? Maybe I can come visit you next! Ill bring you back a present from Korea or Japan to make up for it ❤
Much love to all my aunties and uncles in Hawaii if you are reading this :) 미안해 = informal Sorry
In a quiet kind of mood tonight; there's this quote from Coffee Prince that I really like that I was thinking about today ( I was looking up tours in Seoul and there was a Coffee Prince tour haha so it reminded me of it).
~ He says his dream is “To see only what I want, to not see what I don’t want; to live joyfully and happily.” ~ I think this is such a great way to look at what you want in life. No material desires per say, no set-in-stone goals...it is to live life so that you want for nothing and only see that which you have or can attain. It indicates that one can see the beauty in the world, and not only the ugly. Although this quote can definitely be interpreted in many ways..Anyone else like it too, or am I just being a little nerd over here with my banana milk? :) Life = seng-hwahl 생활 Dream = ggoom 꿈 World = seh-geh 세계 Happy (I am) = heng-bok-hey-oh 행복해요 I know I've been here for a week and all but I still have this stupid little smile on my face that I can't help when I go out on my morning explorations. Because everyone walks here, you see the most interesting mix of people from harried scruffy students with backpacks and sneakers, polished office workers in pencils skirts and tailored suits, giggly schoolgirls in knee high socks, fashionable schoolboys joking around, a few little kids followed by harassed looking mothers, loud food sellers on the sidewalk side, and grandpas/grandpas out running morning errands. I'm not quite sure how to explain it but just walking down the street surrounded by the Korean stores and Korean signs just feels so different! A major difference in their architecture is that I see a lot of shops that are located underground, like that Mad For Garlic restaurant I blogged about earlier. You see the storefront on the street, turn in and immediately go down a set of steep stairs. Way to be efficient when you have limited space lol, we could totally learn from this. Today's coffeehouse was a place called Java City Coffee. It was a lot pricier than I was expecting but the mocha was really good :) The Kimchi Museum is located on the 2nd Basement floor of the COEX mall. I couldn't find it the first time I went, so this was my second attempt lol. It was 3,000 won for admission (a little over $2). I had a lot of fun :) I was super fascinated by all the exhibits and displays considering I actually hate kimchi. I won't eat it, although I have tried. The only time I can handle it is in kimchi jigae. The museum was here to show the history of kimchi in Korea's past and present, and its evolution throughout the years. It was also meant to showcase the various types of kimchi, when they are made and eaten, and for what purpose. I also found an area at the end that had a kimchi tasting area (I passed over it lol) and a microscope focused on a drop of kimchi liquid. It has all sorts of good bacteria in it that keeps you healthy and is good for your body! So interesting...I loved all the different pickling pots and realistic displays of the various kimchis with certain meals. Kimchi is so engrained in Korea's culture...no wonder they dedicated a museum to it :) I learned a lot for something I don't even like to eat!
Because I somehow managed to lose not just one, but BOTH of my Apple headphones in my move from Santa Barbara back home to Los Angeles, I was without any earbud headphones in Korea. I resolved to buy some when I got here as my family had torn apart our house looking for them the night before my departure and they were definitely not there.
There are no Apple stores in Korea, only licensed retailers and sellers which look just like Apple stores inside but are called stuff like Frisbee and a#. The new Apple EarPods look kinda funny but I decided to try them because 1) I already have two pairs of EarBuds back home (albeit they are currently AWOL), 2) they are the same price as aforementioned Earbuds, and 3) my ears do hurt sometimes when I wear my buds for longer than like 8 hours at a time (college midterms/finals weeks I AM GLARING AT YOU). They fit awesome! The sound is very clear since its more focused than the Earbuds (comes out in a little hole at the bottom not a big circle), and the bass is sick. Much more intense than the buds. It comes with this cute little square carrying case with a hard plastic top and the apple logo on the bottom. Totally unnecessary since they will spend most of their life on my head or in my purse pocket, but its nice packaging by Apple, as always. It's not very late but I'm tired out from today. Time to shower and pamper my face!! I've accumulated quite a collection of face washes, scrubs, toners, etc that I've never used in my life because I'm lazy and all that stuff is expensive to buy regularly. Here though, really good quality and fancy brands are affordable so I can try them out and use them. The stores themselves are so attractive and adorable that I just like going in there and browsing :) My favorite is still SkinFood but Innisfree takes a close second. I've been in several Etude House stores and TonyMoly and Nature's Republic but haven't bought too much from there. Yet. I should start shopping for my second suitcase to bring all this back @.@ Additionally, I am fascinated by these extendable straws they have with their caffe little drinks (the ones that look like mini coffee cups and come in like caffe mocha, caramel macchiato, etc). They come all tiny and cute and then you pull and it shoots out!! O.o Yea yea, we all knew I was easily amused lol... Goodnight everyone, tomorrow is a new day :) Night = pahm 밤 Itaewon in Korea is known as the foreigner area in Seoul. Think Koreatown or Little Toyko in LA! It's the longest subway trip I've taken this far; because I'm taking a route with less transfers its taking about 45 minutes. I'm sure if I was more confident in my subway navigating skills I could take a route that had more transfers and took less time. For now though, riding the subway here is a novelty and I don't mind :) I decided to check out the foreigners area in Seoul today to maybe find someone who can speak English well and where I won't get stared at for speaking English, like I was the entire time I was Facetiming Sonny in the coffee shop today lol.
I had the GREATEST DAY EVER in Itaewon, it was so much fun!!! There were barely any white people actually, and the ones that were there stood out a lot. I was tempted to try to help the lost looking ones but refrained since I don't know my way around any more than they do lol. Sorry unknown fellow travelers -.- It turns out that today happened to be the start of the Itaewon Global Village Festival!!! There were booths lining all the way up and down the street with food and drinks from different countries. Predictably, the American booth was selling hot dogs hahaha. Pride of our country, they are. It was amazing seeing and smelling all the different foods! There were arts and crafts for the kids and even drum workshops going on. There were so many different people wandering around of different nationalities; to be honest I put on my sunglasses so I could people-watch and not look like a weirdo. Shhhh :)
After wandering around enough, I started walking up and down the sides of the street where there were plenty of shops, places to eat, and street vendors lining the sidewalk. I got the cutest pair of ballet flats (for less than $9??), an FT Island CD and poster I've been wanting, 2 headbands, 2 scarves, and an awesome new backpack. I've been wanting a backpack like this since I came to Korea and saw everyone with them, they are cute, well-made, and huge with lots of zippers and pockets!
If you come to Itaewon, prepare to be complimented a lot. Just walking down the sidewalk, shop salespeople will look you up and down and say "beautiful" to you, or "neomu ipuda" which means very pretty or literally 'too pretty' in Korean. I'm sure they learned that English just for the sake of attracting customers attention lol. I actually got physically hauled into one shop when I glanced at a salesgirl standing outside with free samples; apparently if you show the slightest eye contact with them, they will take it as interest and shove a sample at you and bring you in. It turned out to be a music store though, so I was happy with that :)
There was a big stage with chairs set up where various live artists were playing; since it was in Itaewon it was hosted by an all-English radio station (although it was run by Koreans). I happened upon the stage just as a young rock group was setting up. If any of you know my musical tastes, rock (particularly alternative) is my FAVORITE genre, so I took a seat. The group was called AXIS and comprised of five 20-year olds, four boys and one girl. And let me tell you, that one girl was a BOSS with her guitarwork. I was impressed. The lead singer sounded like Adam Lambert. Rock isn't as prevalent in Korea as in the US or UK as the MC mentioned when questioning the members. They really only have FT Island and CNBLUE to look up to, but its got a growing following. It's how I first got into kpop, since I simply liked the rock music whatever language they were singing in. Talk about opening Pandora's box...@.@ Anyways, they played three songs and were really good! I was that annoying American waving my hands in the air when the lead singer asked everyone to put their hands up and bobbing my head. The Korean crowd was so conservative, I wanted everyone to lighten up. People did; by the end there were plenty of people with their hands in the air with me :) Mission accomplished.
There were parades and costumes and military men and comedy acts and so much going on!! It was so lively and bustling, it just made you smile walking around. I saw these AWESOME Joseon-era costumed guys and I wanted a picture with them, but I asked the only white people around (this suuuper old couple. Definitely a mistake) to take it for me and they couldn't figure out my iPhone -.- By the time I corrected them for the 5th time, my phone had died :'( I'll go by there tomorrow again on my way out to get a picture. This time I'll ask a younger person...or not be retarded and CHARGE MY PHONE before I leave @.@
On my way out I stopped by a stand and got myself some coconut milk/juice; I had seen people carrying them around. My first time tasting actual coconut juice/milk and its in...Korea?!?! I got some funny looks on the subway ride back too...it could have been because I was carrying a purse, a backpack, AND multiple bags, because I was carrying around a giant green balloon (I got passed one during a parade), or because I was carrying around a coconut in my hand that I was sipping from. I'm gonnnnnna say its all of the above :)
On the way home I was pretty tired and kind of feeling nauseous. I realized it was probably because all I'd had to eat that day was a coffee this morning, a boba tea this afternoon, and then coconut milk just now. NOT the best combination for a happy stomach lol. Combine that with the constant swaying and abrupt starts and stops of the subway I took all the way home and you get nauseous (I actually still feel subway-sick right now sitting in my room, the room literally feels like it's swaying back and forth with the movement of the subway...so weird. Like seasick or how you feel after you've just been on a treadmill for awhile; like the world is rushing past you on either side, back and forth, back and forth @.@). All in all though, such a wonderfully fun day :) I'm really happy even though I'm dead tired! Quick background on my destination: COEX Mall is an underground shopping mall located in Gangnam-gu Seoul, South Korea. It is Asia's largest underground shopping mall with an area of about 85,000 square metres. Along with hundreds of shops, the mall houses two food courts, a 16-screen multi-cinema complex, the COEX Aquarium, a large bookstore, and the Kimchi Field Museum. It also features a game area which is used to film computer game tournaments, which are broadcast on local television. There are also stages inside and outside the mall for seasonal events and public appearances by celebrities.
Needless to say...I got lost. The famous Kraze Burgers and a place called Jackie's Kitchen! It was a dimsum and noodle place that had entire walls dedicated to Jackie Chan!! Must go eat there one day...
Why do their shotglasses have holes in the bottom of them? Not gonna lie, my first thought was that it was so you couldn't sit and babysit your shot, you had to take it right away like a man :D
Also found the Korean equivalent of Urban Outfitters/Anthropologie. It had the same decor, store layout, and style of clothing...weird. Look at the cute bunny beanies though!! :) Lunchtime! I decided on Korean today since I've been having foreign food like Vietnamese and Japanese lately. I had mushroom bulgogi and it was yummy!
After lunch I had such an amazing time wandering around the gigantic shopping area and window-shopping. I stopped by a few stores (Innisfree and Nature Republic, which are EVERYWHERE seriously. It's like Bath & Body Works in America) to pick up some face scrubs and lotion, which I didn't pack any of because I assumed I'd buy it here.
Amusingly enough, I got asked no less than 5 times for directions or some kind of question by Korean passerby. It's simultaneously hilarious and embarrassing to have to say sorry and that I don't understand. They all smiled but looked confused, and sometimes looked back at me as they left. YES I KNOW I LOOK KOREAN but I am not a failed Korean for not speaking the language BECAUSE I'M NOT KOREAN. The older ones always seem more understanding and pat my arm or head when I say I don't understand. A couple times these pretty, power-suit wearing women in the shopping malls or subway station shopping areas would watch me and then accost me trying to propose something to me. I have no idea what they were saying but I always feel bad for having to say sorry. In Nature's Repulic I managed to get a salesgirl who spoke some English and she asked where I was from. I said America, but my dad is Japanese and my mom is Chinese. Predictably she looked shocked and goes "What? Oh I thought you were Korean!" T.T This is getting old. I did see more foreigners here at the mall than anywhere else I've been and at least I don't get stared at like they do. So maybe it's not all bad I fit in. Kind of. People still stare at my clothes. WHAT'S WRONG WITH MY CLOTHES HUH. Their mugs come with these fitted ceramic tops, to keep it warm I assume! So cool.
More of my bathroom obsession: these sinks were all cute, quaint, and homey with individual sinks and mirror decals :) In America, we have mall directories. In Korea, they have interactive mall maps that you can touch and move with your fingers to find places and information. I'm awed.
Also: Mom and Dad they have a Todai!!! :D Also found the Korean equivalent of H&M; same decor, store layout, and clothing styles. Weirdddd.
This is for my friends & family who are reading this and who have told me directly or by message how much they enjoy reading this blog everyday. Like I mentioned before, I started this blog thinking it would just be for me to keep a record and for my family and close friends to keep up with me every once and awhile. Now I am getting messages from tons of friends, some I haven't talked to in awhile! It's an amazing thing, I never thought it would be a way to reach out from over here to all my friends back home. Dajeong even said that reading my blog made her to visit all the places I talked about, even though she's lived here for 20 years :) It makes me so very happy that everyone is getting as much enjoyment out of sharing these experiences with me as I am, and I'm really touched by everyone's excitement & support :) Keep the positive thoughts coming. It's so much fun getting to share all my adventures, but kind of intimidating to know so many people are reading what are essentially the thoughts that go through my head everyday haha ♥ ♥ ♥
고마워!! (koh-ma-woh - thanks) 사랑해요 (sah-rang-hey-oh - I love you!) On my way to Yeoksam station: I already determined that I will go around 10-11AM, when it is least crowded (my conclusion after careful polling of all my Korean friends lol). This way when I am staring at the ticket moniter blankly and blinking lost at all the exits, stairways, tunnels, etc that I'm sure awaits me down there, there will be less people to laugh, point, and/or think I'm retarded T.T The aftermath: The subway was CRAZY, I had never been in such a high-tech, clean, airport-looking subway. They have these moniters everywhere that show an animation on the bottom of where the particular subway train you are waiting for is, so you can stare at the train animation moving across the screen from station dot to station dot as it happens. Lots of the subway trains have electronic maps that blink showing the station you are in and the one you are heading towards. Announcements on the train are made in Korean, English, and sometimes Japanese. Most signs in the station have English as well as Korean and the lines are color-coded (e.g. the one closest to me is Line 2, the Green Line). It is extremely complicated as each line has a ton of stops and each station has tons of exits that lead up to various points on the street. With all the stations being underground, it looks like a mini low-celinged shopping mall in there. There are cosmetics, shoes, clothes, pharmacies, coffee shops, convenience stores, etc. The turnstiles to enter the train part of the subway are such that you just place your T-card on top and rub it a little and it was beep and open for you. Very quick! I only went to Samseong station, which is two stops to the right of where I am (Yeoksam) since my destination was COEX. The next post will be on that. The trains are also very very complicated to me since I am not used to it. There are trains on both sides, up and down, all over it feels like, since each station is different. I don't know which train is going which way (as they run in both directions on either side) or which line it is since there are multiple numbers and colors on signs sometimes. I'm sure I will adjust though and learn my way around...it is only my first week here still :) Subway = chi-ah-chul 지하철 Station = yuk 역 Subway station = chi-ah-chul yuk 지하철역 Japanese (nationality) = il-bun sahram 일본 사람 or il-bun-een 일본인 It's expensive = pi-ssa-yo 비싸요 It's cheap = ssa-yo 싸요 How much is it? = ol-ma-ye-yo? 얼마예요 So it rained this morning but then stopped for hours, and the ground was completely dry. It was only a little cloudy. I was getting ready to go on a walk and out of NOWHERE it starts pouring! And I'm not talking gentle pitter-patter of lady-like droplets; I'm talking omg-its-the-freaking-apocalypse kind of deafening rain. You couldn't even see very far out because of how thick and fast the rain was falling- it was raising mist on the ground from hitting so hard! Within seconds (I kid you not) the entire rooftop next to mine was completely flooded and exactly 2 seconds after the rain had just started it was thundering and lightening-ing. Is this normal?! I happen to like the rain so I phoned the front desk and asked if they had umbrellas I could borrow. They did and I set off to get some coffee. I ended up at Holly's, this little coffee place I pass a lot tucked in with a bunch of giant office buildings. I got a sweet potato latte, which if you don't like sweet potatoes, will sound disgusting to you. I happen to love them so it was epically delicious; rich and creamy and sweet! I've never had anything like it. It even had little shaved flakes of sweet potato in it to give it a little nuttiness. While I was in the shop, it had stopped raining...and not just stopped, it was pretty much beaming sunshine and bright blue skies everywhere you looked! It was like the sky was sying what, who was hurricane-ing on you all less than 5 minutes ago? Not moi...pfft. Maybe weathers always this bipolar here. And I thought Santa Barbara had it bad- but Seoul, you are totally inland! SB was bipolar cuz it was by the ocean...what's your excuse?! On my way home I stopped by a street vendor I've been eyeing for a few days right near my hotel. She was selling what looked like tempura!! Huge stacks and the smell was incredible. Having no idea what they all were, I inspected the piles carefully and then ordered two of what looked like fried kimbap rolls (think delicious but commoner style sushi), two of what looked like giant elongated fried dumplings, and one big round thing that looked like potato. There was one that looked like sweet potato but I don't trust anything that is any shade of orange or red in this country. It is bound to be mind-blowingly spicy, whatever it is. Once home I tried them out and they were so yummy!! The lady thougtfully cut them all up into bite-size pieces for me with scissors after giving my chosen pieces a quick fry to crisp and warm them up. They do that at kbbq places too, and on Korean cooking shows. The kimbap rolls were amazing, with seasoned glass noodles inside them with vegetables. The dumplings were stuffed with yummy pork and various cabbage, carrots, etc. The potato was tasty as well, and nicely familiar to me. The batter she used was very good, not too heavy and with herbs in it so it looked appetizing. I couldn't even finish the whole bag, it was so much! And it only cost about $2! I can tell this is going to be a favorite of mine already...Dangerous. Verrrrry dangerous... Weather = nal-shi 날씨 Street vendors = po-jang-maht-cha 포장마차 Umbrella = oo-sahn 우산 Delicious (to be) = mah-sshi-da 맛있다 I apologize for the pun, I couldn't help it :D Well my jet lag is officially over!! I slept at 11:30PM last night and woke up at 7AM just now, when I've been sleeping around 5-7PM and waking up at 2-4AM. I am finally on Seoul time. Took a solid 4-5 days, but I suppose it's not too bad for a first-time international traveler. Like the title says it rained for the first time since I've been here, and everything's so clean (not that it wasn't already clean) and fresh smelling outside. I'm forgoing my usual coffee venture this morning in favor of barley tea in my room; there are some gnarly puddles outside (just checked) and I have no rainboots that would enable me to splash happily in them like I'm wont to do :'( Maybe for breakfast I will try that pumpkin rice porridge I've been wanting to taste. Happy lazy Wednesday everyone :) Tea = cha 차
Wednesday = soo-yo-eel 수요일 ~Many of the Korean days of the week sound exactly the same as the Japanese ones except instead of a -yo-bi ending it has a -yo-eel ending. E.g. Wednesday in Japanese sounds like soo-yo-bi. Thursday sounds like mok-yo-eel in Korean and moku-yo-bi in Japanese. Wona 선생님 and I have discussed other funny similarities before :) Handy huh? Rain = pi 비 My first bowl of actual Korean instant noodles, some cold Chilsung Cider, an inspiring and wonderfully educational experience in Korea so far, and Coffee Prince. Does life get any better than this?? I think not. I'm still in slight shock that this is all real and have to remind myself every so often that yes, THIS IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING. And I have my amazingly generous, smart, understanding, and loving parents to thank for it. Momma and Daddy you guys are the best parents EVER and I love you so much :) Thank you for this opportunity because I know it's costing an arm, a leg, and a Tigger...which considering how fat he is, that's a lot :D Everyone reading this please give Daddy and Momma Sakamoto a virtual hug for me :)
Love = sah-rang 사랑 I love you = sah-rang-hae-(yo) 사랑해(요) Family = kah-joke 가족 Parents = pu-moh 부모 OMG SO COOL. My new humidifier in action. I am captivated. It silently churns out this thick stream of what feels like dry ice smoke. But it's like pleasant and feels good and OMGSOCOOL, I'm like beside myself hahah. How does it do that?? I literally plugged it in, turned it on and inserted the water bottle and TWO LITERAL SECONDS LATER it was pouring out this thick stream. How is it so fast??
My electric kettle in my room is like that too, it's just like click on and BAM intantly you have steaming hot water. The kettle even turns off by itself once its boiling. HOW DOES IT DO THAT? Not even a warm-up needed?? Our electronics in America are so primitive by comparison T.T They are loud, slow, and extremely incompetent of functioning by themselves. If we do not turn them off/monitor them they are apt to burn out, waste tons of electricity, and/or blow up. God save America lol. Tried the pho place right by my hotel. Of course, its very cute and sparkling clean inside. Will I ever find a place here that isn't nice and sparkly clean? Perhaps not in Gangnam lol. When you eat out, I've noticed they give you the check right away, pretty much as soon as you order. Another thing I've noticed at the places I eat out is they give you your own pot of iced water or hot tea without needing to ask for it, and even though I'm by myself. I love it, the tiny pots and pitchers are so adorable! Okay I know I'm retarded but I am FASCINATED by bathrooms in Korea for some reason. They are so nice and clean and I love the tall, pretty, solid doors. Each stall is like a cubicle. Not for the claustrophobic to be sure, but I love how private they are. I always hate the super low ones in some public places in America where people can practically see under your door or through the cracks and see you :| The insides are different too; no toilet seat covers but I was prepared for that, and the layout behind the toilet resembles like a built-in shelf or bar to put your stuff on I'm assuming. After eating I hiked up to the supermarket around the corner from my hotel. And by supermarket, I mean market that is roughly the size and shape of my hotel room. Possibly smaller. It's amazing what they can do with such limited room lol, it was packed in there! I bought a good amount of snacks, noodles, rice, porridges, and drinks so I can start to eat in- I can't be eating out every meal and dropping 10,000 won a pop. As the lady was ringing up my giant basket of goodies, she hands me a small plastic bag to put my stuff in. Ummm, lady I don't know who you think you're dealing with, but this little thing aint gonna cut it. After she finishes she looks up confused at me and my tiny packed bag and mountain of stuff on the counter. She goes OH, BIG! and hands me a giant plastic bag. Ah, now that's more like it :) I stagger back to my hotel and the receptionists greet me with amusement because the top of the bag goes higher than my head. Yes yes, I may be small, but I eat like a horse with mad drunchies!!! I have been getting more friendly with the receptionists and various hotel workers who are around. You have to pass the front desk to go in or out of the hotel, and I always smile and greet them or wave. They looked confused and surprised at first, but now they always smile and greet me on my way in or out. I'm sure they rarely (if ever) have people staying as long as I am, and I doubt they are ever foreigners...might as well be friendly with everyone if I'm going to be living out of here for awhile! I'm sure I'll start calling them unni and oppa soon, they are all so nice to me and look after me well :) Hello = ann-young-ha-seyo 안녕하세요 Goodbye (you are leaving) = ann-young-hee-kye-seyo 안녕히가세요 Good afternoon Seoul, it's lovely to see you too. I found some more fun things on my walk today, including a cool stair set and funny NO SMOKING PAST THIS LINE strips painted across various areas, usually in front of subway entrances. So cool. Seeing as I hate smoking I wish we had some of those around CA. I found a Papa John's, TGI Fridays, and California Pizza Kitchen today! I'm sorely tempted to go try the CPK to see if they make their pizzas the same. I've heard they do pizza up here; none of the sausage and pepperoni business, its like fancy, yummy stuff on there!
Today I wanted to both return the I AM documentary I mistakenly purchased and do a little shopping near Sinnonhyeon Station, along Gangnamdaelo (a big street). I wanted to go back to Artbox, which is essentially sugar, spice, and everything nice made tangible. It's the cutesy-est, girliest, most adorably awesome store ever. It even has its own little row of Jelly Belly bean dispensers so you can buy jelly beans if you want. I bought a mini humidifier I'd been eyeing since Dajeong took me here the other day. It's adorable and will be perfect since its so compact. Maybe it'll help with my allergies.
On the walk home I stopped by what was termed and labeled a Pharmacy on the sign outside. However, this was not a pharmacy as we know it (CVS, Walgreens, etc), but one that looked like it went to Sephora boot camp and came out all pretty, polished, and shiny. I also stopped by a SkinFood, which I've been dying to go to for years now. Their products are supposed to be very good, and very high quality. I've been needing a toner so I browsed around for awhile and landed on the Avocado Rich Toner. It smelled WONDERFUL and was reasonably priced at 11,000 won. All the prices I've found it for online have been around $20 or higher, while this was less than $10!
On the way home I stopped by another media pole and played around with it. I found a button that would change it to English so I could understand it. So much fun :) I felt like a little kid playing with it, although slightly self-concious because people are constantly walking behind me lol.
I've decided that every morning I will try a different cafe/coffee shop located around my hotel. There are so many to choose from! Today's is a cute little thing (let's face it, they're ALL cute little things T.T) called CafeBetweenUs. It's airy, spacious and clean inside, with a cozy, exposed red brick wall and pale wood kind of decor. It feels like walking into a favorite college hangout or a comfortable reading den; I automatically love it of course haha. Ordering food that I can't just point to and say 이거 주세요 (this please) always makes me nervous. Miraculously I managed to hold a mini conversation with her for about 30 seconds without her realizing I was American!!! My accent and pronunciation must be marginally improving. While my conscious was running around inside my head pumping her fists in victory, I finally slipped when she said something about "service". While bummed I couldn't keep up with her Korean anymore, I was however really pleased I was getting more free things haha. She was so nice about my not understanding her, so many people I confront with English words are grumpy to me. I think it's cuz they're scared and are hiding it by being gruff but its still nice to still be smiled at after speaking English. I've passed other foreigners in the streets and hear them trying to say thank you and such, and I always cringe thinking that that must be what I sound like when I attempt to speak Korean. Perhaps all my practicing in my head is paying off. The cashier lady finally got across that she was going to give me my latte for free and only charged me for my ham and cheese panini! Ballin. Speaking of grumpy people, that reminds me of this young shopgirl I bought a scarf off of yesterday at Gangnam Station. She was another of the few who still hung around me and tried to me help even after finding out I was American. I've noticed that the more of their Korean I can understand and reply to, the happier they are lol. Anyways, she said something about how I was always smiling and cheerful after she'd followed me around the shop and talked to me for awhile. I told her it was because I was happy! She said I was so lucky and smiled. So maybe the gruffness of the people I've been interacting with is just natural and the norm here? When I'm walking around the streets, my instinct is to smile at every person I pass and say hello if they smile back. But here they don't make eye contact or anything :( I know it must be the culture difference. Another thing I'm learning to do out of necessity is to drink my coffee black. Firstly, there is no such thing as a "coffee" in Korea. That is known as a "hot Americano". Secondly, they do have creamer or milk anywhere, unlike America where they have it on a bar of stuff for you to make your magic potion (Mom I'm looking at you). At Caffe Pascucci, the first cafe I went to, I was so confused I simply asked for a little milk from the barista. She cheerfully complied, even frothing the little tiny espresso cup of milk in the frothier for me so my milk was warm and bubbly. It made my coffee DELICIOUS. But otherwise, it's such a bother to ask every coffee place I go to for milk. I haven't sat down in many cafes like this yet, but I've been getting coffee from everywhere to help me manage my jet lag. Due to this excessive drinking, I therefore concluded that I just have to learn to drink it black. Coffee = kuh-pi 커피 Coffee shop = kuh-pi shyop 커피 숍 Breakfast = ah-cheem 아침 (A) smile = mee-so 미소 Milk = oo-you 우유 A little milk please = chou-keun oo-you ju-seh-yo 적은 우유 주세요 Had my first actual shopping adventure today in the underground Gangnam Station. I forget what they actually term it as, but it was WAY huger than I was expecting. I definitely got lost many times because it was like a giant underground swap meet (but cleaner and nicer of course) with clothing shops and phone counters and bag stores and shoe shops. It was so cool, like row after row and aisle after aisle, I just kept wandering around making random lefts and rights as I went. Eventually I hit a mini-food court and got a boba to sustain my tough shopping exertions :D Some things were expensive but prices were reasonable in most shops. I got a really nice knit white sweater, 2 woven long sleeves, a scarf, 3 headbands, a 2 korean metal spoon and 2 metal chopsticks set, and some pens all for under $50. Including my boba :)
Tomorrow I will head out towards Sinnonhyeon station so I can revisit Artbox, this cute store Dajeong took me to yesterday. It will be my first subway ride by myself! The thought is intimidating... Adventurous as ever, I choose Thai as my lunch of choice today. I venture down into the Yeoksam Station where there is a pretty fancy mall located underground! Good thing I chose to wear a dress today haha. As mentioned before, the subways stations here are located underground and therefore have many flights of insanely steep staircases to traverse before you can hit ground zero. Now this is not so much an issue going down (although it gives you the impression you will trip and fall 30 feet on your face pretty much with every step you take) but going UP that is the problem. On the real, I could rock-climb up these damn things. Anyways, I managed to order everything I wanted using my little Korean and when it got to me, the food looked amazing. The smoothie was AWESOME, like the smoothest, freshest, most pure mango anything you could dream of, with a hint of spice in it. With this promising start I turned to my dish. The waitress had said something in Korean and indicated the gigantic pile of red pepper flakes sitting on my plate so I assume she meant if you need it more spicy, there are flakes for you. Thanks girlfriend, but I am the wimpiest of wimps when it comes to spicy and I won't be needing those. I must have left my brain in the US because I paid dearly for forgetting that Korea is the CAPITOL OF SPICY SHIT. They are very proud of their little peppers that supposed to be like a thousand times hotter than ours. Well I can now attest to that :/ Literally ONE noodle and a small piece of basil chicken later, I was diving for the water jug, choking (I'm not kidding here), beading perspiration, and simultaneously stealthily glancing around me to make sure none of the other perfectly fine and happily munching Koreans around me had noticed my near brush with Dante's inferno on my plate. HOLY MOLY. I know I'm a baby but this was hot. Like burns your eyeballs and your insides and sears through all gazillion layers of skin you've got in your mouth until you're sniffling like mad and your face literally feels like its turning permanently bright red. Which it did. I have never had anything so hot; you could eat 15 bags of flaming hot Cheetos EXTRA HOT and it wouldn't come close. And the lady wanted me to put more red peppers on this stuff? SERIOUSLY WHAT ARE YOU KOREANS MADE OF?! Naturally I didn't want to be rude by not being able to eat it and I didn't know how to ask for mild so I started eating with the strategizing skills of a general. I would eat one small bite and chew; as I chewed I drank some water on my left, swallowed quickly, immediately slurped some mango smoothie on my right, swallowed, sucked air in and out of my mouth quickly, did a little "I have hot coals in my mouth" body twitching, then did it all over again. Finally I couldn't eat anymore because my stomach was burning and rather ticked off at me so I asked for a box and paid. My nose was runny from the heat so I went to the restroom to blow my nose. It was such a trial I came back to my room to rest for a little instead of going shopping afterwards. But never fear, there is very little in this great, big world that could keep me from shopping for very long... :) Bathroom = hwa-jang-shil 화장실 Food = eum-shik 음식 Lunch = chum-sheem 점심 Stairs = kye-dahn 계단 Since it was nearing 5AM to my body, we stopped in a coffee shop (Tom Tom's Coffee, a chain in Korea. Think like Starbucks, which by the way is OBSCENELY expensive here). They had a long line so after we ordered iced coffees they gave us a buzzer! Like a restaurant haha. And to my surprise, it started played David Guetta and showing a movie clip!!! So high-tech. All we get are boring buzzers with shining red lights when it is ready lol.
Kyeong-bok Palace was just as beautiful as I imagined!! There were SWARMS of people there, Dajeong and I couldn't believe it. I'm assuming it was because it was the last night. We almost thought we wouldn't get in because they won't allow people in after 9 (it closes at 10), but we made it to the front of the line and sprinted (both in heels, nbd) across the courtyard to the entrance haha. It looked straight out of the movies or dramas, same architecture, colors, design, etc. Everything was so large and grand, it was awe-inspiring and beautiful. Dajeong says when she has serious talks with friends or wants an introspective moment she goes to the palaces just to walk and think and talk because it is so peaceful. It was dark when we went but I could see how all the water, green trees, wide open spaces, and tall colorful buildings could be nice to sit and think around :) I wish we had such things. Mostly if I need to think I plop down in my room, assume my yoga pose, and go at it :D
There was the main entrance and then a courtyard and another entrance (I kept thinking of the scene in the Curse of the Golden Flower where the girl panicks and is running away towards the end after (during?) the failed invasion of the Golden Flower warriors and gets speared with a thrown spear or something in the entryway of the palace. It looks identical to this one!! Sorry if that was gruesome lol. There was a big main pavilion with a throne room inside it. The stone steps going up it on all sides were HUGE; like seriously I could rock-climb up these damn things. I ended up kind of jumping and springing up each one, nearly falling on my face when I finally got to the top haha. Ever the graceful one, that's me.
There was a huuuuuuuge wide courtyard around this area, with gates spaced periodically. Just wandering around in the courtyards with the huge slabs of stone set in floor was inspiring- you feel so small. Dajeong told me that there was ten gates I think, and that they were always barred in times of war to protect the king. Heading out on one side through a walkway, we came out into an open area with trees and more buildings and a giant pavilion that looked like it was floating on the water! It was the King's pleasure pavilion, where he had his food, music, and women. The reflection on the water of the lit up pavilion and trees around it make it look like there were two :)
Finally when it was time to go we took pictures outside of the great walls that surround the palace. Apparently the area in which it is situated is very famous in dramas. She said particularly if you've seen IRIS (Mom & Dad!) the ending shooting scene is filmed here. I made a panorama so you can see! We walked down the large wide path in the middle of the freeway-like main street and went by statues of the King who created the Korean language and a samurai-like Korean general (? can't remember lol) who protected Korea against the Japanese invasion with his turtle ship. There was a replica of it in front of his statue; it was badass with a covered top to the ship and long, sharp spines coming out of it! We passed a plaque with old Korean on it (like old English! You know, with weird words and spellings and pronunciations. There is "old Korean" too, and it looks totally different, with some now-obsolete characters). There was this cool little wheat maze that ended with a black iron dome in the center too. As mentioned before we rode the subway all the way back to Yeoksam, where I am staying and I fell asleep several times lol. It was only around 11PM here so I tried to reason with myself, but my body was having none of that. All in all, such a fun day full of new experiences!
Whew. Well ladies and gentlemen, you'd better strap in & hold on tight cuz this is gonna be a long one. I'm splitting my last day into two to make it easier to read haha. After a most exhausting and awesomely fun day yesterday, I got back to my room at around midnight here meaning I effectively pulled an all-nighter because I slept at 7:30 AM US time @.@ I fell asleep on the subway back like 5 times, so embarrassing. Probably because of that I woke up at 5:30 AM this morning, much later than usual!! The jetlag is slowly getting better. I met 다정 (Dajeong) at 강남역 (Gangnam Station) at 4PM, and we set off from there to Kyobo Tower, where there's a big bookstore, music store, etc. I lost track of all the different areas we went through since I can't pronounce most of them properly (but I will!! Eventually...) and I bought some single-trip subway tickets since the shops in Gangnam Station were out of the sturdier T-cards, the reloadable charge cards used for subway rides. On my way to meet her I had stopped in Daiso and bought an energy drink, because I knew we would be out late and I'd have trouble staying up...I had been sleeping around 8-9PM here, which is 4-5AM back home. Surprisingly the nice adjumma (middle-aged woman) tried to indicate to me to go get another one saying "Servisu" and "1 plus 1". I've heard of the "service" thing, which was like a free promotion to the customer from the shopowner. So I essentially got a free energy drink in addition to my own! She was so sweet :) Maybe she recognized me from yesterday when I went shopping in there. I heard they love repeat customers. Since today is the last night Kyeong-bok Palace is open to the public at night, Dajeong kindly offered to take me, saying it was too beautiful to miss. We had such a fun day!!! I am so grateful to you 다정; if you are reading this, I had a great time :) She is seriously the sweetest, most patient, and easy to get along with girl ever. Also in case any of you were wondering, we are twins. QUITE LITERALLY. Case in point: 1) We have the same exact birthdays, September 1st except she was born one year earlier in 1989 and I'm in 1990. Weve both never met another person with the birthday of September 1st. 2) We both have little brothers (남동생) who were born in 1993 AND in January (her brother's birthday is January 20, while my brother's is January 17!) 3) We are both short and love to wear heels. All. The. Time. And we love Kimchi Jigae :D 4) We both have mothers who are elementary school teachers! 5) We are both going to be taking classes for our teacher's credentials & taking the teacher's exams. 6) She is so comfortable to be around! She is so easy to talk to and a wonderful host/knowledgable tour guide. Anyways, glossing over our eerie similarities in...well life in general, we stopped in various shops along the way from station to station as we traveled towards City Hall & where Kyeong-bok Palace is located. There were such cute things in the shops!! I wanted to buy everything haha but I restrained myself...kind of :) There are these things called "Media Poles" on this one main street, in which you can take pictures and email them to yourself, among other things! We had fun taking silly photos because we could never get the timing right on it. We settled on a funny one and we agreed to take a better, normal picture next time :D Inside Kyobo Tower it was like a giant Barnes & Nobles meets Blockbuster meets FYE meets Westfield Mall meets Costco. Except instead of food samples, there were people with little tables of electronics or cameras or hairdryers or something lol. The revolving entrance door was funny because apparently with all such doors in Korea, you cannot ever touch the door or it will stop. So when Dajeong went to Las Vegas, she tried to get into a casino through a revolving door and just stood there. However we have to push most of our revolving door haha so the security guard finally told her to push when she asked for help :D She is too funny!! Inside I finally bought a book I've been wanting for awhile "Children of the Sun". I also bought the I AM documentary in excitement before belatedly realizing its region code 3, so I can't even play it in America lol. We are region code 1 :'( Ah well, its released Nov 6 in American I think. As we walked further, we found people all walking in one of the huge streets and noticed it had been closed off. It was the Hi Seoul Festival! There were firecrackers and music and a procession down the street with performers with blue on their faces and even a rockband on a moving truck haha. Dajeong said it was so strange to be walking in the street of such a huge major street, but this was a special occasion. For dinner Dajeong took me to this awesome little KBBQ place. It looked nothing like the KBBQ places I'm used to going to in LA; there were lots of little coffee shop-sized tables with a deep pit in the middle and a hose-like retractable chimney above it. You could move it all the way down to almost touching the meat! So much more efficient in whisking away all the nasty smoke and KBBQ smell you usually get when eating there :) We had yummy pork, some kind of pickled, sweet seaweed salad, and the most amazing kimchi jigae I've ever had in my life. It was called 칠분 김치 찌개, or seven minute kimchi stew because it is cooked in seven minutes! It's spicy and savory and has such an awesome flavor. Dajeong said it was eaten in a different manner than usual in this restaurant; we mashed it in with our rice and put dry strips of seaweed over it and mixed it in. SO GOOD. Everything was, we left stuffed. She taught me how to say "I'm full" but I don't know how to spell it haha. I think it is something like 배 불러요, or pae-bu-reu-yo. In Japanese it is おなかがいっぱい, or onaka ga ippai. Julia taught me that one when she was visiting the US from Japan :) I will see you soon Julia if you are reading this!
On my morning walk today I chose a different street and direction from yesterday and set off. I figure this will be my routine everyday until I have a good idea of how this area lays out with all the locations of stores, eating places, and most dangerous crosswalks T.T Today I found a Korean KFC! All these fast food places here are so much nicer, cleaner, fancier, and of course, not drive-thru lol. It's weird seeing them sitting on a block in between a Samsung store and a bakery. The weather is again beautiful, a crisp 73 degrees and the sun is out with blue skies to accompany it. After wandering for awhile I stopped in one of the many convenience stores for something to drink and got myself some banana milk and mocha drinks. They're the real ones!! Not the Americanized versions I'm used to. Nobody will understand my excitement for this banana milk except maybe Waylie, Jessica, and a few others haha. Most unusually, the cashier here seemed to know intrinsically that I wasn't Korean and didn't speak it even though I hadn't spoken any English. Is it the way I dress?? Someone told me people would know I wasn't from here by the way I dressed...Hm. I'm going to be all self-conscious now. Anyway he held up his calculator with the amount due on it for me after rattling it off in Korean. To be fair, I DO know all my numbers (both sets, the native Korean and Chinese ones) but I can't keep up when they speak so faaaaaast. It's so frustrating. Usually anyone I interact with here assumes I am Korean because apparently I look extremely Korean and start lightspeed-talking to me (??? All the Asians I knew in SB along with most Asian people I've met for the first time thought I was full Korean. So did the adjusshis [middle aged men] I sat with on the plane. Is that what happens when you mix Japanese & Chinese?!). It's quite inconvenient. I listen politely, put a blank look on my face, and then have to say "Sorry, what?". They immediately either look fearful of me (scared I'll speak more English to them b/c they don't understand it haha) or they look apologetic and try to speak Korenglish to me. I actually had one woman legitamately RUN from me in a 7-eleven when I came in to ask for directions, it was pretty funny. I said "hello" instead of 안녕하세요 for some reason, and she immediately bolts and ducks behind her male coworker, who dutifully and bravely looked up directions for me on my phone. Thankfully Wona 선생님 and Diane 선생 taught me directions and how to ask for them so I understood when he told me to walk a block north than make a left and walk two blocks before making a right, cuz his Korenglish was more just straight Korean with a few "yes?"'s thrown in :D Otherwise, I might still be wandering around out there @.@ I decided I'm going to start including relevant Korean words at the end of my posts, so everyone can learn a little bit! It will help me learn more too, since my Korean is still shaky :)
-To drink = ma-shida 마시다 -Drink (beverage) = eum-ryo-su 음료수 -Convenience store = pyun-i-jum 편의점 -Korean (nationality) = han-guk-een 한국인 or han-guk sahram 한국 사람 -Korean (language) = han-guk-go 한국어 -American (nationality) = mi-guk-een 미국인 or mi-guk-sahram 미국 사람 -person = sahram 사람 Waking up at the lovely hour of 2AM having gotten about 4 hours of sleep. I tossed and turned for about an hour before giving it up as a lost cause and watching Korean tv on this remarkably large flat screen. It seriously tickles me how actors and idols we are used to seeing only on YouTube are like EVERYWHERE here. I turn on the tv and first thing I see is a coke ad with 2PM and another ad with Shinhwa. Then the drama comes on and it's Personal Preference with Lee Minho :) Not one of my all time favorites but it wasn't bad. Changed the channel and some random hospital drama came on with the hot gay doctor from To The Beautiful You and the annoying angry dad from Dream High!! We are so isolated in the US :/
Anyway now that I've gotten my super Asian moment out of the way, it is time to continue my aimless wanderings around Gangnam. I love being up so early, when the light is all clear and freshly minted. Everything around me is still so new, I feel so playful and excited just walking around! Even in my uber-jet lagged state @.@ Also as a side note, I just discovered my hotel room has a doorbell when the staff brought up more tissues for me. YES, A DOORBELL. It's a very pleasant, musical one too not like the DINGDONG ones back home; just loud enough to hear clearly if the tv is on or youre running water but not loud enough to startle. When I turn the tv off too it has this little charming musical riff as it turns off, like its saying byebye! :) Why does being in Korea make me think about how every single inanimate thing is being cute?!? |
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