how's korea pt. 2

So i'm back and uploading for everyone again!

At the us embassy, some people met representatives from their schools. (Yes, the nun is a representative and yes they exist in korea. Actually a good amount do.)

I want to learn how to play the korean harp!!

REALLY BAD! I want to learn!

Aint this fountain cool?

Korean money!!!!

This is one of the first places we visited in korea. It's a palace, buddhist.

Lil statue things at the palace.

People were praying. The room was hella nice, but i felt that it would be disrespectful to take pics while they prayed inside.

Isn't it pretty... except josh is all up in my picture!

So, you light up incense here and put plants for dead family members.. and umm i forgot who but someone knocked over a plant!!! haha

The big hidden buddha.

Look how big it is, compared to the people haha.

I will continue later on peace!!

Song of the day: MissA- Good girl bad girl

How's Korea

So, finally.. i have pictures to show you guys!!!!! SO, since i haven't updated in like FOREVER, literally. I will update you guys with pictures!!! isn't that the best? Since I wanted this blog to be a photo blog thingy, that's why i haven't uploaded, but here it goes!!!

BTW, I MISS MY DOGGIES!!!!!!!!

So, when we got to UC Berkeley, after a stupid van driver dropped me and Liz? off at a weird place, we finally got to the orientation. I can't even remember what i though of everyone back then. Lots of us have gotten so close to eachother it's weird trying to remember us before being friends haha. ANyways, this is our little explorer book to keep track of our skills... haha. It was still really empty when i got it, but it's getting filled up. Am I the only one that does it still? ahah

Me and z were roomates... can't u tell? She already had two luggage bag things here! She was hilarious in the room and BTW... she still is a hilarious ditzy chinese girl haha.

So, I was bad on the plane and ripped this page of lady gaga out the magazine. I think the man next to me thought i was hella crazy.

THis was the view from the plane, arriving in korea!!!! I was soo fricking excited ahha.

So, when I got to korea, I couldn't even read the hanguel. THank god for english translations!! Btw, this subway runs through the airport.

the train is coming!!!! Liz is right there haha.

사만다, 신시아, 케일리

Our bus was cool!!!! We had a tv and got some good views of Korea on our way to the Hostel.

OH! These japanese people were filming something for tv in the hostel. It was pretty cool.

So, in Korea... they teach you how to wash ur hands! haha. It's cool.

My first korean breakfast. So the soup, is like seaweed... thingy haha. It was okay. The meat is in the back... it's called Bulgogi.. it's like sweet beef. The red stuff is kimchi... yea. THen i don't know what the other stuff was and then RICE! haha.

Sammie enjoying her food!! Until she tasted the spinach. AUGH! haha.

THe roof of the hostel was mega fun. BTW, i love those shirts. They have our names in korean!!! haha.

Sippin some orange juice.. yum haha.

On our way to the embassy. It's like advertisement for FIFA KOREA on a bus. It's cute! haha.

So!!! This is the end for this post. I will upload some more later!!!

Song of The Day: Narsha - biribaba

Pc BBang

OMG! i'm at a pc bbang!!! It's like a huge room filled with computers, people come here to play. Especially students whose parents hate to hear them play computer games at home. Friends come here too! it's like a socializing place, but no socializing... just computer usage haha. ANyways. I'm here with my host brother, mingi. He's sooo cute! I went to art box (stationery and cuteness heaven!) and he didn't complain! He just kept saying we need to find Noona a scheduler. They did. It's totally cute and small.

How I wish that I could upload pictures, maybe when i go to sogang monday?

Anyways, I learned how to get to sogang today, a bit confusing, but I think i'll manage. I need to get used to the subway station, so I can visit my friends!! Yay! haha. Anyways, it takes me about an hour to get to sogang. Monday we are all planning to eat lunch together, so I have to leave my home at 11, so I can go and eat lunch with Sammie and Kaylee at Sogang in the plaza they have. (It has POPEYES!)Gotta taste that.

Anyways, I will write later, im tired even though it's only like 3:17 pm here. 

Song Of The Day: 4minute - Huh

Korea pt. 2

So, i totally am going to skip all the way til today. Forget about everything that happened (i'll put that stuff up when i put up pics)
Yesterday I met my host family. THey are very Nice. i have a lil brother named Mingi.. haha. He speaks fluent english. THey gave me my own room and are extremely caring. 

I went shopping in Myung dong yesterday before meeting them. It's like a 10 minutes walk from The seoul youth hostel. So yea. Haha. I got a bi rain Poster.

Here in Korea, it's similar to Japan, people will stand outside and shout out some weird incoherent phrases and give you free stuff in order to lure you in. And it works.. i go into all of themm! It's cheap here in Korea. They have TONS of face products and clothing and Myung dong is a great cheap place to go.

I had to buy a new hair straightner and it was only 25 bucks, but mind you some can go up into the 100's haha.

oh! 2pm (yea the ones i put music videos up of alot) are totally having a concert here in SEOUL!!!! Haha. I'm extra excited of course. I totally freaked when I saw it on tv and asked how host dad how to go. I was like 2pm Ottoke! (how) Haha. and he got the message. So i'm picking up bits and pieces of korean hha. Thank god! So this is all i have time for today.

Song of The day: MBLAQ - Y

In Korea! pt. 1

SO! I'm totally in Korea, but I only have a limited amount of time to write this post! (sorry, but i have NOOO idea how to upload pics right now haha.)

Airplane Ride #1: So it totally sucks taking like transfer flights... I was like YUCKY, the whole flight.. just gets tiring and all that recycled air. BTW... i had a ridiculously small bag of peanuts haha! Then you have to of course pay for your headphones! blah!...

Getting to Orientation: So when I landed in San francisco I met a girl going with the Chinese group. She was funny! Haha. SHe had a 62 pound bag for her summertrip. This totally made me realize how UNDERPACKED I was for the semester. I think I should have SUPER packed. But I guess its better? Cause I can go shopping without worrying about the weight limit. YAY!
And I got to see SAMMIE!!!! (we went to Japan together the summer of 08) I was super extra happy to see her! I met like 47 other students going to South Korea and some kids going to China with an ice breaker. (the toilet paper icebreaker.) UC Berkeley had a pretty cool cafeteria, like cereal dispensers and organic food, it was yummers!

Orientation: So we had ALOT of ice breakers and totally  boring orientation hours, but it was all happy. My roomate was Z she was totally funny. haha. Then I totally had to repack everything after the 2 nights there. SOO much mess!

Homesick: I did get homesick, cause The orientation was long and gave us time to get homesick, but i feel wayy better now that im in SEOUL! It's awesome and I still have PLENTY things today and LOTS of time to do it. I know i'm going to be homesick again at some point. Culture shock is kicking in soon (the food and meeting my host family is coming soon!) So don't worry if i'm all negative at some point during my trip, it's normal! haha.

(so i'm running out of minutes again.. so I will continue again soon!)

Snsd- OH (super cute!)

South Korea flights! + Graduation

So i'm officially a high school graduate! Yay for me! We had tons of speeches, but it was a great graduation! I was the first one bawling across that stage! (like I knew I would be haha)

Me and Daysi!

(thank you for the cake vane!)

So, now all I have left to do is learn some Korean and get to packing! I'm even more excited now!

Nsli Update:
We totally go our flight information! I leave June 25th at 11:47 and land in San Francisco at 4:16! We will stay at UC berkely for about a day and a half... (two nights). Then on June 27th at eleven in the morning we will get on our flight to Seoul!!!!!!!! it's an 11 hour flight for those that don't know! I'm happy it isn't more than that! But we get to totally watch movies the whole ride and sleep! yay for me! haha.

A quick note about airplanes: I totally hate how cold they are. I'm gonna wear socks... jogging pants... and a sweater. (i'ma look like I just rolled out of bed! haha)

According to what everyone is saying. I guess we will be having a one week orientation when we get to Seoul? I'm not sure yet. But either way i'm extra exctied!!!

I got my luggage bag! (yea.. i should be able to spot this polka dot bag at the airport haha.)

Nice with polka dots!

I just started to pack (you can see my toothbrush! haha) and now I feel like my suitcase might be TOO small!!!! But it's okay.. cause i'm taking a bookbag. (and a hidden bag inside my luggage.. just in case!)

Song of the day: Bi rain - Love song (wahh.. he's still sexxy!!!)

Dear John, End of Senior Year, Nsli update

So, I just finished seeing Dear John (the movie). So it's wasn't GREAT, but it was good. I cried, just a little bit though. Channing Tatum is... SEXXXYYY. That's all i'll say about that. Anyways, the book was better as usual.

So news:
-UPCOMING TRIP TO WISCONSIN DELLS! We are going to Mt. Olympus on June 5th... if anyone is going there the same day i'll see you there!!!! I'm excited, DUH!!!!! Who wouldn't be? I'll officially be driving (for the first time ever) on the freeway for more than like 5 minutes! (who on earth is excited to do a 2 hour drive... only me.) I'm insured though...(my mom went crazy and put insurance on both the cars, even though I only drive one... but.. hey.)
- Final exams are like.. RIGHT THERE! I'm ready to leave high school. YOu have no idea. Just TWO days of exams and i'm DONE! Done! Done!!!!
-Graduation is on the 8th. Okay get this. We graduate at like 6pm. WHO DOES THAT? I've never heard of a night graduation. That's sooo friggin weird! I should throw a party???? We should ALLLL throw a party... Nah.... things will definitely get out of hand and I don't want to be responsible for ANYTHING. (If you go to Arts, you would definitely understand what I'm saying.)
- Graduation PARTAYY!!! So, i'm celebrating it with my dear DAYSI! (LUV YOU NIG!!!)
On the 12th. Ashley's is totally on the 13th. (i'm happy about that, cause I get to go to hers too!)

April Loves black coffee:
If you've ever been on soompi you've probably seen this blinky thing somewhere in someone's signature. I'm going to say something... small. It was an AWESOME Fanfic. I cried a little and it's one of those 'i can't pull myself away from the computer' stories. I will totally recommend it to anyone. She has awesome writing skills, her foreshadowing is amazing and even the POV writing is done extremely well, I felt every emotion May was having. It was just good. So if you wanna read it log into soompi's forums and look for Conversations between us . (fanfic title)

Nsli Update
So, i've met more than a handful of the students going abroad on facebook. I'm excited to meet everyone and have fun over the summer and the rest of the semester! We are getting super clothes.. 21 more days!!!!

Song Of the Day: Gummy- As A Man (this video is cute)