Only a Month Until home......hmmmmm

Ok so the last two weekends haven't been all that exciting. Last weekend I spent most of the weekend at home except for a Sunday excursion to the palace. It was really fun to see all of the fall colors. We also got to see the Korean presidents home from far away. It's called the blue house and is pretty cool looking. There were a lot of families there with their kids. The kids here are so adorable and I  think once I get back to Creighton I will really miss being able to see kids all of the time. It's cool how old all of these palaces and things are.

    That week on Thursday I went with a Finnish and French girl to the Hello Kitty cafe. This is funny because the whole place is decorated in Hello Kitty.  It has been fun hanging out with these girls because they were in my Korean language group and we usually had Thursday afternoon dates to go places.
    The next weekend I went with Jina home again. I really enjoy going home with her for good food and her family is so nice to me. On Friday night we went to sa-hyoung and opah (Jina's boyfriend) picked us up there and we went to a Korean restaurant. This one served a soup in the middle of the table which is just boiled veggies and thinly sliced beef. It was delicious. I think this is one of my favorite Korean dishes. The next day Jina and I searched for something to see and we found a park with all of the fall colors. It was called nam-han-san-sung. This was a really cool place but... everyone was staring at us. Go figure because everyone was in hiking gear and we were in dresses and boots. I was also the only foreigner there so that didn't help. Then after that her friend picked us up and we went to Jina and her friends old university. It was a lot bigger than Sogang and very cool. We ate supper there and just came back to Jina's house after that.
    The next day Jina had a birthday party so I went with Opah to the huge department store. It was so packed since it was the weekend. The department stores here are huge. Then we went to pick up Jina and just came home. Opah was really tired because he had stayed up late with a friend the night before. I keep telling him I could drive for him but he doesn't think that's a good idea since its Seoul and I don't have a Korean license. He is also a little protective over his brand new car.

    The next week I had a ton of homework due and the German girls kept inviting me to do fun things. I was so bummed telling them no but I did go to the Lantern festival. It was soooo cool. There is this small crick that runs through Seoul that has some really cool bridges and is nice at night. That few weeks though they had these lanterns in the middle of it. This looked really cool. The rest of the week we were just getting ready to go to the Phillippines. We left on that Friday to go.