Long time no see

This blog have been dead for like 2-3 weeks now, wops....

I have been so busy with midterms. Sadly, I have gotten some of the midterms scores back already, and some of them is really bad. First time I've got a C on any test in Korea before ( a C in Korea is like super bad, idiot bad). Well, at least I tried even if my test scores suck badly.

After I finished my midterms I had another test waiting.  On saturday I had to take IELTS test, english test for those who don't know. Reason why I'm taking a english test is because I want to transfer to another university, but still same major and in same country of course. 

The test lasted like forever... It started 8 in the morning and at 12, four hours later I had a 4 hours break before my last part of the test, the speaking interview part. 

During my four hour boring break I walked around Dongguk University where I took the test. It was superhooot on saturday, at the warmest it was +28 C. When I woke up that day it was not that warm, so stupid me wore a long-arm sweater. I almost died while walking outside.

I had to save myself with going to the nearest coffeeshop I could find.

And oh boy was I lucky. I found a Tous Les Jours not far from the university. Mostly this coffee shop, bread store chain got very small shops. But this one is the biggest Tous Les Jours I have ever seen. I took some photoes because I wanted to show my boyfriend, but my phone battery died after taking just a few.

So much deliciousness right??

Soon weekend

One day left before weekend! 

Photo taken last sunday at a dessert coffee shop in Hongdae. Mint Strawberry Ade and a yummy strawberry cake. This is why I love spring. So many new drinks and desserts based on strawberry. I love strawberries! And one more day left to weekend, so I can go out and enjoy more new drinks at coffee shops. Yum.

Princess diary Cafe

Me and my classmate Grace from Singapore decided to do something fun together during Chuseok (Korean thanksgiving day). Its a holiday where most koreans celebrate together with their families, and they go back to their hometowns. So did my boyfriend. Therefor I had no plans for almost a week, which was the time we got off school to celebrate. As one of my friends said "being a foreigner on Chuseok is like being single on valentines day". And Its so true! You know all koreans eat awesome foods with their family, while you have no family in Korea. Just like being alone in valentines right?

Therefor me and my friend wanted to check out a cool cafe together. Princess Diary Cafe near Ehwa Womens University. Princess Diary Cafe is a cafe where you can dress up in wedding clothes (oh yes, every females dream cafe!). They got clothes both for females and males, so if you actually can force your boyfriend to go there with you, good job!

The cafe is alittle pricy (of course). First you need to buy something to drink, can choose between tea, coffee, milkshake and so on. And then you get told to sit down and relax and drink your refreshment while waiting for your turn to try on a dress. The location is not superbig, so all cant try on at same time. They have many different wedding dresses to choose from (both long and short wedding dresses), korean traditional dresses also. You rent the dress you pick for an hour, and you get charged if you use it more than one hour, but they will tell you when its time to take it of,so dont worry. Renting a dress cost from 10,000 won to 35,000 won depending on the style you want. I choose the biggest dress I could find, so mine was ofcourse a little expensive.

When you have choosen your dress and when its your turn, the staff will help you to put it on. I was so happy that I could keep my jeans on while putting it on, dont wanna put it on just in my underwear infront of my female friend and female staff. Im shy, ok?
And if you dont have matching bra, dont worry, they even put a bra on you which is stropless. It amazed me how the staff knew my bra size just looking at my breasts??. Also they have high heels they make you wear, and they didnt even ask for my shoe size, and this time it was right size also! Weird right?

So after putting on the dress, you get one hour as I allready said, to take as many pictures as you can! And if you have forgot your camera, they actually have camera for rent there also.
You can put on many hair accesories also, like pirat hat, normal hats, big hair bows, tiara, you name it! They also got gloves, and plastic flowers too.

Let me show you my pictures I took at the cafe:

Some of the wedding dresses you can choose from in the dressing room

I chose milkshake while my friend chose rose tea

Pictures of people in their dresses inside the little house where we got our drinks

Me sitting infront of makeup mirror which you can use to put on tiara infront of.

A pic of my whole wedding dress I had on. And of course bunny ears, I love bunny ears!!!

Another pictures that is takes infront of the makeup mirror. I love the wall by the way

They also had a piano to take pictures with, cute right? Wish I could play piano! Todays random funfact.

Isnt the dress hugh?! It was so heavy I swear, But in my real wedding someday, it will be bigger! Ooh the pain.

The door in the background is actually the toilet, which you will get asked to use before putting on the dress.

I didnt actually mean to close my eyes, but I did. It looks like I really enjoy it, right?

I dont really look good in this picture, but the background is cute, so have to show it anyway.

So what do you think, would you go to a wedding cafe?

Actually what surprised me alot is that many brought their boyfriend there. I thought it would only be females there, but I was wrong.

Anyway, If you want to check it out and dress up in pretty clothes and take alot of pictures. Take subway line 2 (green line) to Ehwa womens university stop, Take exit two and walk down the mainstreet and turn right when you see starbucks. Then you will se a big sign that say Dress cafe, wollaaa you found it!!!

Now its time to get back to homework, teacher has given us homework to read a 100 pages book by tomorrow, and watch a 1 hour debate on youtube about free will...Oooh life is great as a student right?



A long update

Hello again.

Time for a long update guys! Sorry I've been not writing much these days, I've actually been busy everyday since I came here. So havnt had any time writing before now. And sorry that this entry will have no pictures, I have forgotten to take a camera with me in my purse whenever Im outside hee heee.

So without any pictures I really hope this will not be too boring to read. Myself, I don't like reading blogs without pictures, they easilly bores me. So this will be the first and last time without any pictures, I promise!

So this will be more like an diary entry I guess? I cant really remember day by day, because Im a really forgetful person. But I can tall you what I've done, but what day I did it will be messed up.

So instead of writing days, I will write happenings, ok??

Happening 1: Oh, I actually remember what happend at my first day,because first days are easy to remember, thats why. I got picked up at the airport by Ingrid, who is my best female friend here, and also from Norway. She lives in Suwon,not too far from Seoul. I think she had to wait some time for me at the airport for me to arrive (Sorry Ingrid!!), because I had to go through immigration line. It was so many people in the immigration line, omg. But after maybe 1 hour I got to meet Ingrid after getting my luggage. The weather when I stepped outside the airport was so horrible! I know my friends living in Korea said that Korea is awefully humid and hot these days, but wasnt prepared for it to be so hot and humid! Right then I thought it would be best to go back to Norway, I will not complain about cold norwegian summer again. Here im swetting 90% of the time. The other 10% Im in a room with aircondition.  Rest of the day I spent with Ingrid. Going to an department store to try to find beddings etc for my bed. But didnt find it. So slept my first days without pillow or blanket. But because Im a Viking I survived.

Happening 2: I actually remember day 2 also! Because it was such an special day, which I've been looking a forward to for a long time. I meet up with my favorite person in Seoul (or whole Korea), Seul Gi. Someone I think I would die without in Korea. We went together to an coffeeshop where we drank some iced coffee together and read fashion magazines. Most coffeeshops have many different magazines to read for free. So when we meet up in coffeeshops we always read magazines together. Even if he is a boy, we always joke saying his personality is like a female. Reading female magazines together etc. After spending some hour at the coffeeshop we went for a walk along the river. Its very peaceful and quiet at night time. Only a few people stroll there at night, so its an great place to just walk, relax and enjoy each others company. And moreover sitting by the river also gives some fresh breeze, so its a great place to be in the humid summer. I think we sat there to almost morning. Just talking for a long time. Havnt seen each other for one year, so we had alot of catching up to do. But my most favorite part of the night were ofcourse when he was singing for me, every girls dream right??

Happening 3: Ok, this is where Im starting to get my days mixed up. So from now the days will be just in random order. Anyway, I meet up with Seul Gi again one of the first days. Because I was bored, so he wanted to show me his University which is not too far from my place. So I took taxi to meet him at the subway station closest to his school. I paid only 2000 won, same as 10 NOK. Cost less than taking bus in Norway. So we first went to a Bar right beside his University. This bar was very relaxing, almost felt like a book cafe. Very small and cosy. So we sat there to it closed, which was quite early. So we went straight to his campus after. He showed me around the campus of the school. After walking alot we sat down in the park infront of the buildning for his major. We sat at this cute swing-bench talking for some hours. It was in the middle of the night, so it was very quiet and relaxing. It was only us in the park except from two older men sleeping on the benches not far from us. After speaking for a long time we went inside the buildning where his classroom is. Even if its in the middle of the night students can still go there for studying, its always open. So we found a room where we played boardgames,and when we finished the sun was allready up. So it was time for going home.

Happning 4: Seul Gi took me to a restaurant to eat. And of course I can't say no to foods when he offers to pay. The restaurant was really nice. And for the price of our food we could get as much wine we wanted. So I've tried out two different onces, one red whine, and one white. Both were really good.

Happening 5: Trying to get my Alien Reg.Card. (Cant buy cellphone,make bank account etc without it. Its like a proof that I live in Korea and not a tourist). But it wasn't easy. Ended up going to two different immigration offices, and when I got to the second one I found out that I had to get some papers from school. So I also had to go to my university trying to get those papers I needed to apply for my Alien.Reg.Card. After that I was so tierd of walking in the heat that I decided to go back to the immigration office another day. So I did it yesterday, so now I only need two weeks to recive my Card and I can finally get my phone and bank account.

Happening 6: Student orientation meeting at Hanyang University (My university). The meeting was devided into three groups. One for chinese speakers, one for japanese speakers and one for english speakers. The meeting was for all new students at school in every major. With information about how to registrate classes, about student clubs etc etc. And let me just tell you all.......Im the only white person who is starting school this semester! But its lots of chinese students and japanese.

So after finishing my meeting I hurried home, and I got invited to go out eating with Seul Gi and his male friend from school (his best friend). He wanted to meet me (everybody is very excited meeting a foreigner) so he wanted to pay dinner for us. So that was a really fun and interesting day.

Happening 7: Had to force Seul Gi to help me registraiting my courses (which he gladly did). For choosing and registrating courses I have to use a online webpage where everything is written fully in korean. So without any help I could not understand anything at all. And to graduate I must choose courses that give me minimun 15 to maximum 20 credits each semester. So I choose courses for 19 credits. I ended up registrating for basic quantative methods,introduction for economics, international relations, society and philosophy and business admistration. So I think it will be a hard but interesting semester.

Happening 8: Same day as I registrated my courses Seul Gi took me to one of those places which he does volunteer work. He asked the boss if I could join, she was happy and said it would be an great experience for them to have me there. The volunteer work was about teaching english to children whom are from troubled homes. So they can go there to study different subjects, like english. It was an great experience for me also. I really enjoyed being with the children and help them. They are so fun and cute. And very interested in asking me so many question, and looking at my eyes because they are blue. And asking me things like "are you his girlfriend?", "he is not good match for you, because he is ugly!". They are not shy asking all kinda weird questions, but it was fun so I didn't mind. So for helping we got free dinner there. which is more than enough.

Well. That are my main happenings so far. Have done other things to, but those are not as fun or interesting. Just normal everyday stuff.

I will try my best blogging more, but as you see my days have been quite busy lately. Now I got some time off before meeting a friend later today, so I hurried to write while I could. Now Im really sleepy, so I think I will take a short nap..

So bye!!