Adventures with me ~ Suncheon Garden Expo

Last summer when I visited Suncheon with my boyfriend we were supposed to go to Suncheon Garden Expo. The Garden expo was popular in 2013 when it opened with flowers from all over the world. At that time the entrance fee was kind of expensive so we ended up never going there. But this year, one year after the price is not as expensive as last year so me and my boyfriend decided to go there some few days ago. 

The garden expo is quite big and It's alof of walking. I used jeans the day I went there, and I almost died of heat. 

 

The place is super pretty and perfect for dates with boyfriend or friends 

 And if you go make sure to have full camera battery because It's so many beautiful places to take photoes.

 

This photo was taken in the Japanese Garden. The Expo is for international flowers, so they have many different gradens from different countries. 

Also from the same garden. 

 From the Korean one. At this place me and my boyfriend played Korean traditional games outside and I won! Guess I'm a natural talent at playing Korean games. 

 

Netherland Garden if I'm not wrong. It had a big mill, and its the most popular spot to takes photoes at the expo. It was hard taking a photo of the mill and not have people photobomb me.

 

Also from a Korean Garden. So pretty flowers! 

  Found my future car. Pink with pink flowers, Its perfect!!

 

How cool would it be to drive around in this car?

And the last photo is from Thailand Garden. I want this three in my own garden in Norway someday, together with my pink car.

For you to save money on entrance going the the garden expo I was so kind that I filmed everything you for guys^-^ now you saved 4000 won!

                                                

Adventures with me ~ Wedding and Suncheon

YEY! It's finally summer vacation! In two weeks I'm going to Norway for a short time to spend some time with my family and friends. But right now I'm at my boyfriends parents house in Suncheon. I personally like Suncheon better than Seoul. Suncheon is smaller, more quiet and people more friendly.  For those coming to Korea to study or just travel you should try to go outside Seoul and explore other cities also, see Korean culture more up close. 

I've been here for some few days. Me and my boyfriend have spent most day just relaxing. I'm currently sitting in a coffee shop and drinkin iced americano, so humid outside today! 

Our first day in Suncheon, and the reason why we came is that we went to my boyfriends cousins wedding. 

Wedding is Korea is......Interesting. Its so far from a Norwegian wedding as possible. When you arrive to a wedding hall you must find out what floor you are going to. Every floor has a wedding room, so you must find out where the wedding you are going to are being held. When you get to that floor you will see a table where you must go to give money for the couple getting married. Weddings in Korea is super crazy expensive, and couples family must spend alot of money paying for their wedding, so every guest must pay money to attend, which will go to the parents for paying back. Therefor the more people who come, the better. When the wedding starts you can go inside the room and sit down to watch. The fun part here is that the rooms are small, so not everyone can go inside and watch if you have invited all people you know. And the most annoying part and surprising for me is how non romantic it is. Most people are talking during the ceremony, even on their celephones, not paying attention at all. The ceremony itself takes like a half hour at the most. The wedding ceremony itself is some weird also. Firstly, the person who marry the couple aka the priest can be whoever, it can be someone in the family, a friend, old professor, whoever can do it. Second, in the middle of the ceremony it's normal that a friend of the couple sing for the couple. And my favorite part that makes me giggle everytime = at the end of the ceremony when they are married and they walk down the aisle, two females stand on each side of the aisle with trumpets shooting out sparkeling stuff at the wife and husband. I wonder who came up with this tradition.

After the ceremony is finished its buffet time! This is probably the last time we see the couple at the wedding except if you are close family. Parents of the couple go into another room alone having traditional tea ceremony where the bride and groom change into wedding hanboks and do traditional ritual with theit parents, this last also for about a half hour. After that the couple leaves the wedding and most likely go strait to their honeymoon. Rest of the guest, and main reason why people attend weddings here is to eat buffet. Here you can eat like crazy, eat dessert and drink alcohol. This buffet is shared with all the guests of all the weddings taking places in the buildnings at once. After the bufett the whole wedding is finished and time to go home. There is no after party, no cutting of cake, no dance, nothing. Just a short ceremony and some food. My boyfriends parents of course wants us to have this kind of wedding also in two years time. I don't really want, because for the price of this wedding I can have 10 westerns weddings, a romantic wedding in my homecountry. But here in Korea the wedding is more for the parents than the couple. It's to show off the families status, show off their son/daugther, show they have money etc.. So its not only for family, but coworkers of the parents. Its more business than it is to celebrate a couples love. 

After the wedding and buffeet we drove to my boyfriends uncles restaurant nearby. Here we ate fruits and traditional cakes made by the bride. The bride is suppose to make beautiful food and snacks for her new family in law. I will fail at this big time in the future. 

It's now four days since the wedding took place, and we are just relaxing at my bf parents place. It's better to stay here than in Seoul. The weather is not hot as in Seoul, and his parents apartment got aircondition which we don't have in ours. We have spend the days doing almost nothing, just spend time with each other. I think its good for our relationship to get out of our hobbit size apartment and just relax and enjoy each others company. Its easy to get tierd of each other when living in such a small apartment back in Seoul. We have mostly been in coffeeshops, out eating, watching word cup at bar, walking the the park and so on. Vacations are for relaxing right??. 

 Oh, but there was one day, the day after the wedding, when we had to attend another of my bf's uncle ceremony for becoming CEO of an organization. We drove an hour to a country side place, like taken out from a money, only traditional houses and rice fields everywhere. My boyfriend spent the time sleeping laying on my lap in the car, but I was too busy watching outside the car window. It was so pretty, interesting and different from what I've seen in Korea so far. I didn't really know where we were going or what we were going to do there. When we arrived there was a big hall, I think it's the sports hall to a school or something. Inside people were dressed in suits, hanbok's and pretty dresses. Thank god I wore a pretty dress and heels that day. People of course looked at me like I was an alien, or first foreigner they have even seen. Well, it could be that I was the first foreigner they have seen when I think about it...... The place has round tables everywhere, and a hugh buffet and stage with flowers and instruments. I was suprised how formal this banquet was. We sat down and after a while the entertainment started and also some people holding a speech. And now the part that was very embarresing. Our table was the table of honor, the table of the family of the new CEO, we were only 5 people of his family attending. They started to introduce important people. And guess what.... We had to stand up infront of everyone, and bow twice infront of the whole audience, like 100-200 people. And I had no clue what was going on before my boyfriend told me to stand up, so I did. Then he asked me to bow infront of all..Confusing foreigner moment. I felt like hiding under the table when I finished... But I survived and I could enjoy the buffet later and also getting many people coming over talking to my boyfriends parents because they were curious who this blonde foreigner was.  But everyone was really kind, told me how pretty I am and also I got flowers from one of the men there saying welcome to their town. 

I had some really nice days so far, and I still got a week left. Today I've only been sitting here in this coffeeshop, and I did some quick shopping, bought two tshirts. This city shopping is alot cheaper than back in Seoul! 4000 won for a tshirt.

And now for this weeks video=

Enjoy.

And lastly

 

A old photo of my boyfriends family ^-^

Adventures with me~ Studying for finals

Sorry for being so quiet lately. It's now my finals week and I've been busy with studying and trying to pass my tests. I'm actually in a coffeeshop right now togehter with my boyfriend reading for my last test on friday. Just few days left and I'm free and I can start to enjoy my summer! 

Even if I've been extremly busy and very stressed I have remembred to film some now and then. And good news....I got my camera to work! So no more filming with my crappy cellphone. After my test on friday I will go to my boyfriends hometown on Saturday and stay there for some weeks. I will also attend my boyfriends cousin wedding on Saturday also, one of the reasons why we are going to his hometown. There I will have time to relax and enjoy my life again without studying my ass off. 

Anyway, here is my short video from the past days. And a short warning before watching the video, it contains food, mostly food...So if you hate food or are very hungry, don't watch.

Have a nice day!

Adventures with me~ Hongdae

                    

(Short hair day because its too warm to wear extensions, and they should be washed, buhu)

Today I met up with my friend Sanna to go Hongdae together. It's one of the few times I've been to Hongdae during daytime, and not at night drinking with my friends.

 
We decided to meetup to eat lunch together and do some shopping. We ate at Sushi in Sushi, a famous sushi buffet (always a long lone to get a table). So if you ever are in Hongdae and want some sushi, go there! Its close to exit 9. When you see Etude House turn right and walk for 2 minutes. Its always crowded at Sushi in Sushi because its very cheap and has alot of food! Not only sushi, but also potato, salads, different Korean foods, cakes, fruit, beverage, waffles,soups, ice cream and so on. All these foods, and you get 1 and a half hour to eat as much as you are able to.

After eating and talking for an hour we went out on our shopping mission. Hongdae has alot of great stores, and one of the few places that sell alternative clothing style. Our favorite that we always visit together is Ultra Fashion. When we saw it first time we were confused if it were a clothing store as it said on the sign or a club. The whole store has a club feeling about it, disco light, neon light, club music and the whole package. "Is it a club or is it a store?" Why go to one if you can go to both?

After the awesome club store we just went for a long walk. And today was super hot outside so we had to sit down to relax. On our way back from the clothing store to the main shopping street near the sushi place we went to a small cute coffee shop where we bought some ice coffee and brought it to the Hongdae park to relax.

Our fun day together ended up with going to a condom store. You know Hongdae is alternative place when you find a store that sell those kinda stuff. These things are very tabu in Korea, and other similar stores here are well hidden without any windows and in weird places.

I ended up buying two tshirts, both on sale, cheap student here!! One for my boyfriend, a coke shirt, because he loves drinking coke too much. And a shirt for me with a unicorn print on. Maybe some have already seen my sweather which is almost same. Finally got the tshirt version! Yey!



If you want to check out the club store they do have a online store also.

http://www.ultrafashion.net/

Adventure with me~ Shopping

From today and on. I've decided to start with something new and exciting! (or not so exciting maybe...).I realised that I've take too many photoes, and too many videos and I share them with no one what so ever. So now for the first time I made a video blog. And before I show you my first ever video. I just want to warn everyone about my sucky english in this video. Because it's the first time I record when I'm all alone I feel so awkward talking to myself that I also start talking with a weird english accent, forgive me everyone! Weirdly enough, no one on the the street looked weird at me? 

So without more introduction to my first video blog. Here you go:

         


 

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

Just checked what people search for to find my blog. These are the most trending sentences on google when people find my blog. I thought my blog was for those curious of my life here in Korea. But I guess pedofiles are those who visit my blogs most often.

 

I just had to google myself to find out why 13 year old is the most searched. And Tadaaaa. Here I am. 

Well, I guess the reason why I got readers everyday are because of old guys looking at my photoes thinking I'm 13 years old. But....Im turning 24 years old tomorrow. I take it as a compliment that people think I look younger than I am. At least when I'm like 40 I will look 30.

Whats the most random people have searched to find your blog?

Cafe Drama~

I guess many of you already read my entry a long time ago about me going to Princess Cafe to dress up in beautiful wedding dresses? This time me and my friend Rebecca decided to go to a similar cafe named Cafe Drama, also located in same area as Princess Cafe.

The difference between Princess Cafe and Cafe Drama is that in Princess Cafe its only wedding dresses and Hanbok while in Cafe Drama you can also find costumes from different Korean dramas and also some historical costumes beside Hanbok and wedding dresses. The choices of gowns are bigger than at Princess Cafe.

Meny:

Same as with Princess Cafe you have to order a drink. I chose iced choco, the drink is included on the price when renting a dress. In Princes Cafe you must both rent a dress and buy a drink. This place had all kind of prices for the gowns, all from 15,000 won to 75,000 won! Me and my friend chose the two white gowns in the second photo, stunning dresses right? so Rococco! 

The price for our dresses was 30,000 won with a drink. We could wear them as long as we wanted, hours if needed! In Princess Cafe it was maximum one hour.

Dressroom:

 

After you chose the dress of your choice you will be taken to the dress room. Here the staff will help you with getting you dressed and also add accessories you want, like a tiara, or headpiece for your Hanbok. You can also pay extra and get your makeup and hair done also if you want some extra fun. 

Set:

 

In the cafe they got three different places you can take your photoes, you can use them all freely. If you don't have your own photo camera there they also have a professional there to take your photoes for you, but its pricy, but a fun luxery for those who got some extra money, or for tourists who want want professional pictures taken.  Me and Rebecca used the two rooms except the one for korean costumes.  

After getting dresses it was finally our turn to take some photoes (actually too many, guess we ended up with 500 photoes). Because we took so many photoes, we did get alot of bad onces. I will show you my favorite photoes of me. Be ready for some spam. 

My photoes:

 

 As you can see, the dress was sooo heavy,big and hard to breath in. Thank god I'm born 1990 and not thousand years ago. Puh

 Looks so royal right? This was my favorite background!

Just relaxing on my sofa...

Now some closeups in the pink area.Too much face...

Less face, alot better! 

Hiding behind a mask. Who is this mysterious female?

It's Marita!!!!


So anyone tempted to also go there to take some photoes? New Beautiful pictures to show on Facebook?

How to go there: 

 Finding this place is not so hard. Just go Ehwa Womens University subway station, go to exit  1 and walk for five minutes to you see a big intersection, then go right. You will see the entrance to Cafe Drama pretty easy.

When we went there we were the only onces there, but we went there early and in a weekday. If you are going in a weekend or with a big group of people you should just in case reserve time. To do so, and to check out their dresses, prices, meny and so on you can go to their webpage:

 http://cafedrama.cafe24.com/main.php

I would totally go there again if I get female visitors or something. Its super fun to do with some close friends. And I will keep these photoes forever as a good memory in Korea.

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??

Cherry Blossom Festival + Girls Night Out in Gangnam

Sorry for a late update. I've been stuck with reading for midterms. Half of the semester is soon over! Times goes fast!!

A week ago I went out to meet some of my friends to go to Cherry Blossom Festival here in Seoul. It's great for celebrating spring with friends and so some picknic. There are many places in Seoul to watch Cherry Blossom but one on the most popular choices is Yeouido Park located by the Han River. This day was actually very cold and windy. So we were debated a long time to go or not, but cherry blossoms only bloom for a short time so we were afraid to miss it. Therefor we went even if it was freezing outside.

Because going to a cherry blossom festival I felt like dressing up a little. So I chose to put some flowers in my hair and wear pastel clothes. Pastel clothes is my favorite trend this spring for sure!

 

At the exit stop for Yeouido Park it was so crowded with people. I had to go to the bathroom, and it was around 50 females in the line. Also had to wait for some of my friends to arrive,and waiting for someone inside a super crowded subway is kinda stressful. 

 

When my friends finally arrived we were all starving so we hurried to the park to try to find a place to sit. We did manage to find one empty spot, but it was so small that we all had to squeeze together on my and my boyfriends small blanket.  We bought chicken, snacks, sushi and beer for our lunch. I also bought coffee to keep warm, but the coffeeshop spent like 20 minutes to make coffee! Slowest coffee shop I've ever been too. 

After eating all our yummy stuff me and the girls decided to go out for a walk to look at the cherry blossoms while the guys protected out blanket from blanket thieves.

 We walked for maybe a half hour watching these beautiful trees. Sadly some had already turned green because of cold weather the few days before we went. But still we got to see some pretty trees. But because of the really cold blowing wind did not walk for so long time, we all wanted to just hurry back to out blanket and find another place to go. Too bad the weather was not good, if not we could have spent many hours in the park.

 

On the way back to the boys we found this funny sign for truck selling japanese food and coffee. The name of this outdoor food truck was called "Let's Go Hungry Fxxker" and had a "Hungry Fxxker" meny also.  Walking along the park you can find many places selling food, drinks and other things for the festival. Yum!

When we got back to the boys we decided we wanted to go somewhere else, because we were half death already. The boys decided to go home both of them, and we girls decided to have a girls night out. 

 

Out first stop on out way to Gangnam to party was the next subway-stop where it is a hugh shopping mall.  As the girly girls we are we wanted to go to a cupcake cafe. We all ate cholate cupcakes, and I tried Sakura Latte, Cherry Blossom Latte.  We also walked around in the mall for many hours to it was close to dinner time before we went to Gangnam to have a real girls night out!

Gangnam at nighttime is pretty fun. Its known for many eating and drinking places. But mostly for its exclusive clubs where the young, pretty and rich people go to enjoy their weekends. We did not go to any clubs, but we went eating and drinking. 

Our first stop in Gangnam was this pasta restaurant. Its the best pasta we all have tried in Korea so far. Korean pasta is mostly not so good, but this place was awesome! The owner also gave us all free wine and said we could come and get more if we wanted. Great service or what?! If I knew the name of this place I would tell everyone to eat there, but I dont remember. 

We finished out awesome meals and we went to a bar where we drank some few drinks and danced with a group of korea females that also enjoyed their saturday night. Fun to make new friends whike going out. Sadly, I dont have any photos because I was too busy dancing and drinking.

When we left this place we wanted to drink more and have fun, but not spend so much money on drinks in bar. So we decided to go to a norebang, karaoke place to continue. What we always do when we go to norebang is that we go to a store and buy some drinks and snacks to bring there. But this is not really allowed, so if you do you must hide your stuff in your bag. Most of my friends do the same.  And the staff at norebangs don't really care as long as you clean up after yourself when you leave and don't show them your stuff when you enter the norebang. So thats my small advice for you party animals out there that have plans to visit Korea.

Here is the beauty! Our drinks and snacks inside the norebang.  The photo is very blurry, sorry. It looks like I took the photo while being drunks, but its just the disco lights. Not lying!

 

And as a group of Scandinavians you cannot leave the norebang before you have been singing "What Does The Fox Say" at least 2 times.  We rented the room for one hour, 15,000 WON. But we got two extra hours for free. Yey for free minutes!

After finishing singing Ylvis and no minuts left we went to a coffee shop. And with out good kucj this night we ended up sitting right infront of the filming of "The Avengers".

I guess thats a good way to end a girls night out, seeing the filming of a hollywood movie with our V.I.P seats. Scarlett Johansson so close, but so far.