Day 5 setting up bank accounts, cellphone, and paid the classes/housing 6/27/11

This morning, we woke up at 7 but we didn't go out until 11am between those time, both of us were talking to our parents and friends on aim and skype. We walked to the woori bank to set up our accounts. two of the worker there spoke english, while one didn't. I realized that alot of people that works here actually don't speak english even though they are inside or near a International school. well after we set up our account, we went back to our school to try the atm with our checking book. but turns our we couldn't use it because it requires an admission number or a activation number. we end up going back to the bank again and got a checking card. yvette transfer the money she needed to to her housing and tuition. When ti was my turn, becuase there was a long line behind me, I messed up typing in the account to send and end up making a mistake. we went back to the bank and lucky it was an error and wasn't sent to an account. so I did the transaction again and it worked. we went back to millennium hall and got our phones to work and got our t-shirts for yonsei. we went to the cafeteria to eat [ i got kimchi chigae] yum. I also took Yvette's seaweed soup since she would be too full. Afterward, I got a Red Bean Icecream bar. after we finish eating, decided to look for our class that will be held tomorrow. I left my camera, so all these photos are taken by Yvette.

this is the building where two of our classes are held.

this is the stadium, where concerts or important events are probably held.

looks nice.. I don't know what this building is but it is right next to the building for our class. we met two people from Singapore who are also taking the same class as us.


on our way back to our dorms, we decided to take a short cut through the yonsei forest. we found this random statue there.



a random street in the main street of yonsei Univ.


this is their logo.


we got back to our room and I decided to make his new blog so that it isn't as messed up as the previous one. this blog took me about 4-5 hours to fix. =o

day 4 lazy day 06/26/11

Today, it was said that it will be the strongest of the typhoon storm that will pass korea. so we decided to stay in our room. this is all the snacks that i bought while I stayed in my room. I had a virus on my computer so I spent most of my time trying to fix it. I still this that I'm not that successful, but oh well.

this was my dinner.

I decided to take a picture of my dorm building.. so there you go. That's yvette by the way.

this is to show the elevator we ride to get up the floor to our dorm.

this was the hall that leads to the new millennium hall. This happened when we were walking around on sunday, and suddenly the wind blew the metal doors soo hard, it opened all the way and flipped the mat on the bottom. I wasn't able to catch it.

this is my new phone

the gate that requires our id to get in to our dorm building.
well pretty much we were in our room all way. we figured out how to set up our computer's internet.. YAY! and then we washed our clothes, and I washed my sheets! they are beautiful now =) I also caught up one of my dramas: Lie to Me.

Day 3 [Namsan Tower/TeddyBear museum] 6/25/11

I realized that I didn’t post a photo of the outside hall to my room, so there you go.

Today we woke up at 6am.. (weird that we wake up earlier and earlier) and then we went to the computer lab to research how to go to namsan. Afterward, we ate at the restaurant near our dorm . we got american style breakfast. apparently I learned that I have been eating with fork and knives wrong all my life. Yvette taught me the “proper” american way of eating with the untensils.

now time to head for Namsan Tower~~

hehe we saw a poster of 2pm and t-ara

we are on the bus from Shincheon station! it was hard finding it since he had to get out of seoul. Luckily we asked a graduate from Ewa University, (across the street of yonsei international) and she led us to the stop. she was really nice. we had a small conversation about why we were here and what’s our major. haha we have the same major ” biochemistry” she was surprised and it seemed like she wanted to say more, but couldnt about our major because we don’t understand korean that well. she had the urge to keep talking to me in korean because according to her I look like I’m korean haha.

it was very easy to get in to the station. Yvette and I bought a t-money card that hangs on our phones (6,000won) at a near by family mart and recharged it with 10,ooowon for transportation. we used it for the station. we got out of line 2 and switched to line 4 at dongdaemun and got off of myeong dong (third stop). we walked up this very steep hill and went up the stairs.looks like we are almost there right? we were soo wrong.

we found a shrine, but turns out to be closed =(. after we passed this area, we learned that we walked the wrong direction (walked down the hill and it slowly started to rain..and eventually got VERY heavy.

this is how the hiking area looks.

here we thought we arrived at the tower place. But, we found out that this was not the tower, but instead the Namsan tower’s library. =( soo.. we had more stairs to climb. the total trip of the climb up that mountain was like 1.9 km. but we went down the hill. so we walked abour .3 km i think the translation of 1.9km is like 6 miles..



yikes every step had alot of water. we were soo tired… that we decided to take a rest from the heavy rain and wind.


we did eventually made it up to the tower.. but we found out that it was raining soo hard with the, fog, we wouldnt see anything. so, we decided to go to the Teddy Bear Museum instead and come back another day by riding the cable car. since posting the teddy photos would take forever, if u want to see all of them, look at my facebook. but I will post some videos here. later . btw, the teddybear in the museum moves. this is the photo of us going down from the cable car.



yup. that was the mountain we

climbed to get up to that tower.

weird bugs that we saw was we walk down from the cable car to the streets.. afterward, we went inside a shoping mall and then into a department store called Shinsagae. after we went through about half of the 14 floors, we went out and back to the dorm. After we got back, we went into kkini restaurant and I ate Shoyu Ramen. surprisingYvette isnt hungry. I dont think she plans to eat anything the rest of the night. After I ate, I came down to the computer lab to type this blog for 2-3 hrs. well that's practically the whole day. I can’t post alll the photos, but I did post majority excluding the teddy bear museum. it’s already posted on the gallery if you can see that. well good night! we will probably do mroe exploring tomorrow~