Seoul Weekend Part 2: Travels with Friends

In the second part of Seoul Weekend I traveled around Seoul with ETA friends and with my awesome Korean Roomies from last year.

Roomy Picture a the stream: Chungaechan :)

We started out at this really cool stream that has only been in Seoul for a couple years.  It's a man made water way that really just adds some aesthetic awesomeness to that area of town.  We walked for many many hours on Saturday all around that area.  From the stream we went to one of the more famous book stores in downtown Seoul called Kyobo Books.  I bought a present for a family at my church in Seoul there--it was a cute little clay set I thought the whole family could play with together.  After the book store we walked over to Myungdong, a well known shopping district and had lunch.  Apparently that area is known for a dish called KalGookSue, which is basically noodles and dumplings in a flavored broth.  I gotta say it was really delicious.  I really liked it and highly recommend  it! ^_^

Eating KalGookSue

We shopped a little bit and then made our way over to this college-y artsy district called Hongdae.  Where we went to the Trick Eye Museum.  The Trick Eye Museum is such a cool place!  The art is supposed to look like its coming out of the walls, so when you take pictures with the art it looks like you're really in the scene!  These are some of my fav pics from that trip.

I also went back to my SGC Korea Church from last year and I'm sooo happy!! I felt so at home there, to be with all these people I haven't seen in so long and they were all so happy to see me.  And my Mini-Sunsangnim (<-- that means teacher) (little boy that I was close with last year) has grown so much.  He's 7 now and his little brother and sister have grown a lot too!! I couldn't believe it.  The sister is walking now and has such long hair now!

Then in the afternoon I met up with my awesome Korean roomies!! ^_^ I missed them soo much :)

With my amazing Korean Sisters!!

Tomorrow my new life begins.  Tomorrow I'm moving into my homestay and on Thursday I'll get a tour of my school.  I can't believe it's finally here.  Here it goes.