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Tracy desu yo, pessimist and world’s worst procrastinator. Uni student with still a lot of things to learn. Interests include otome games, Naruto and Japanese.
 : Loves pink, food, ice-cream.
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June 30th - Myeong-dong and Jung-gu
written on Sunday, August 23, 2015 @ 9:38 PM ✈
Can we first just talk about how awesome the weather was yesterday? I felt like I was in the middle of summer holidays - I could comfortably wear a sleeveless shirt and skirt and totally forgot about gross winter. Aaaahhhh but the payment for that one day of bliss is a whole week's worth of gross winter rain and what I assume will be me at uni with wet shoes and socks. Fun.
Anyway! Let's continue on.
※ Note: Best read in conjunction with the album photos.
Today's post goes from this photo here to here --- log in to see them.
Tip #1 - Prepare to develop arm muscles when you're in Korea. Or if you have them already, be prepared to use them.
What I forgot to mention yesterday is Korea has a severe lack of elevators within train stations. Prepare to find one at the rate of what feels like 3%. The result is we both carried our suitcases up what was at least 10 flights of stairs. Doesn't sound like much right? But what I call the "tiredness factor" kicks in and it feels heavier as you continue. And when I say 10 flights one flight is the stairs, the little flat platform, then more stairs. The point is, it's super tiring. You have to try it to believe me.
Anyway back to my actual diary:
Woke up and the sides of my outer thighs hurt from lugging the suitcases up the flights of stairs. Slept at about 1:30am local time and woke up at 7am, left at 8am to get tom n toms for breakfast and cats ran away in the morning and didn't let me pat them.
For breakfast had peach ice tea with cinnamon sugar pretzel (cause apparently apple cinnamon was sold out) as well as honey butter bread. Made our way to myeongdong via subway/train and went to A land which supposedly opens at 9 am but it wasn't even so we started on cosme road at Etude House. Was really nice there, they spoke a little english and weren't overbearing. Bought a couple of things, checked A land again, STILL not open. Went back to cosme and banila co. Went back to A land and it was finally open. Had 5 levels but didn't buy anything (though Rosemary bought some shorts). Went back to cosme road and went to shops like nature republic, it's skin, face shop, tonymoly, holika holika, missha, clio, too cool for school, skinfood, innisfree, aritaum, olive young and possibly more. Spent quite a while, and ate at a nice japanese restaurant along the cosme road place (inside a building though) and got a big set for 9k. Went to more shops and when we went by holika holika, probs cause we had lots of bags by now, a girl promoter actually CLUNG on to my arm telling us in chinese we get free stuff if we go inside except we had literally just gone in there (and bought nothing) when we had gone to club clio next door after that holika visit. Anyway lots of shop assistants talked to us in chinese (since we look chinese they probably thought we came on holiday from china but nope).
Left at 4pm for Lotte, and didn't spend long there cause many floors were irrelevant and we were tired. Duty free is confusing. Then we ate dinner at the top floor at rice & rice which we had omurice at (japanese and italian) and the omurice had black rice inside.
Afterwards we left at 6:30 approx and went to level 5 (noon square) and I bought two skirts. The two girls serving us there were nice and played barbie dress up with me lol. Lady was very nice and did the tax refund for us and also said in korean "You guys have so much stuff!!" And got a BIG plastic bag for us and dumped all our things in there and threw out our old bags. She was literally a cartoon character - she grabbed our bags, held it upside down, shook it, and when it was empty, THREW it right over her shoulder and formed a pile of our old bags as she repeated this process. She was also puzzled about how long Rosemary spent deliberating over a skirt so I told her in broken (and bad) Korean that she really liked it and she smiled and made small conversation with me, like where we were from.
Went to watson's on the way back to the station also after lotte it was only SLIGHTLY raining but everyone was under shelter or had umbrellas lol. Also we went to M2U and they had couple of kpop cds and such (Rosemary bought a couple). On our way back to station we got a little lost and this young woman at the traffic lights spoke such nice english when rosemary tried to ask her where the station was in korean and we were so taken aback o_o Went to underground myeongdong kpop shop and bought a CD hehehe... and Rosemary bought an exo one for her friend who requested it. We were so noob and had to ask the shop owner which one was Sehun and then she proceeded to buy it straight after he pointed at it (the guy must have been like, why buy a CD of someone you can't even recognise...?)
Came back and stopped at baskin robbins first for double junior ice cream with love struck strawberry and pink minnie. Got back home about 10:05 and literally so much pain on the outer toes from sandals, shoulders hurt from super heavy backpack (Rosemary's bamboo water gel and starbucks ice coffees bottles) as well as elbow joints and wrist and fingers hurting from carrying cosme road giant bag (I swear it was more than 5kg but who knows). Don't know how much it actually weighed but don't underestimate it.
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June 30th - Myeong-dong and Jung-gu
written on Sunday, August 23, 2015 @ 9:38 PM ✈
Can we first just talk about how awesome the weather was yesterday? I felt like I was in the middle of summer holidays - I could comfortably wear a sleeveless shirt and skirt and totally forgot about gross winter. Aaaahhhh but the payment for that one day of bliss is a whole week's worth of gross winter rain and what I assume will be me at uni with wet shoes and socks. Fun.
Anyway! Let's continue on.
※ Note: Best read in conjunction with the album photos.
Today's post goes from this photo here to here --- log in to see them.
Tip #1 - Prepare to develop arm muscles when you're in Korea. Or if you have them already, be prepared to use them.
What I forgot to mention yesterday is Korea has a severe lack of elevators within train stations. Prepare to find one at the rate of what feels like 3%. The result is we both carried our suitcases up what was at least 10 flights of stairs. Doesn't sound like much right? But what I call the "tiredness factor" kicks in and it feels heavier as you continue. And when I say 10 flights one flight is the stairs, the little flat platform, then more stairs. The point is, it's super tiring. You have to try it to believe me.
Anyway back to my actual diary:
Woke up and the sides of my outer thighs hurt from lugging the suitcases up the flights of stairs. Slept at about 1:30am local time and woke up at 7am, left at 8am to get tom n toms for breakfast and cats ran away in the morning and didn't let me pat them.
For breakfast had peach ice tea with cinnamon sugar pretzel (cause apparently apple cinnamon was sold out) as well as honey butter bread. Made our way to myeongdong via subway/train and went to A land which supposedly opens at 9 am but it wasn't even so we started on cosme road at Etude House. Was really nice there, they spoke a little english and weren't overbearing. Bought a couple of things, checked A land again, STILL not open. Went back to cosme and banila co. Went back to A land and it was finally open. Had 5 levels but didn't buy anything (though Rosemary bought some shorts). Went back to cosme road and went to shops like nature republic, it's skin, face shop, tonymoly, holika holika, missha, clio, too cool for school, skinfood, innisfree, aritaum, olive young and possibly more. Spent quite a while, and ate at a nice japanese restaurant along the cosme road place (inside a building though) and got a big set for 9k. Went to more shops and when we went by holika holika, probs cause we had lots of bags by now, a girl promoter actually CLUNG on to my arm telling us in chinese we get free stuff if we go inside except we had literally just gone in there (and bought nothing) when we had gone to club clio next door after that holika visit. Anyway lots of shop assistants talked to us in chinese (since we look chinese they probably thought we came on holiday from china but nope).
Left at 4pm for Lotte, and didn't spend long there cause many floors were irrelevant and we were tired. Duty free is confusing. Then we ate dinner at the top floor at rice & rice which we had omurice at (japanese and italian) and the omurice had black rice inside.
Afterwards we left at 6:30 approx and went to level 5 (noon square) and I bought two skirts. The two girls serving us there were nice and played barbie dress up with me lol. Lady was very nice and did the tax refund for us and also said in korean "You guys have so much stuff!!" And got a BIG plastic bag for us and dumped all our things in there and threw out our old bags. She was literally a cartoon character - she grabbed our bags, held it upside down, shook it, and when it was empty, THREW it right over her shoulder and formed a pile of our old bags as she repeated this process. She was also puzzled about how long Rosemary spent deliberating over a skirt so I told her in broken (and bad) Korean that she really liked it and she smiled and made small conversation with me, like where we were from.
Went to watson's on the way back to the station also after lotte it was only SLIGHTLY raining but everyone was under shelter or had umbrellas lol. Also we went to M2U and they had couple of kpop cds and such (Rosemary bought a couple). On our way back to station we got a little lost and this young woman at the traffic lights spoke such nice english when rosemary tried to ask her where the station was in korean and we were so taken aback o_o Went to underground myeongdong kpop shop and bought a CD hehehe... and Rosemary bought an exo one for her friend who requested it. We were so noob and had to ask the shop owner which one was Sehun and then she proceeded to buy it straight after he pointed at it (the guy must have been like, why buy a CD of someone you can't even recognise...?)
Came back and stopped at baskin robbins first for double junior ice cream with love struck strawberry and pink minnie. Got back home about 10:05 and literally so much pain on the outer toes from sandals, shoulders hurt from super heavy backpack (Rosemary's bamboo water gel and starbucks ice coffees bottles) as well as elbow joints and wrist and fingers hurting from carrying cosme road giant bag (I swear it was more than 5kg but who knows). Don't know how much it actually weighed but don't underestimate it.
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Japan and Korea 2015 Masterlist
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Summer TO-DO List
((to be updated as I think of more things while I procrastinate))
✮ Foster kittens
✮ Clean out closet
✮ Make LOTS of ice-cream
✮ Bake + Cook (and use the molds and kits I bought from Japan)
✮ Study Japanese (JLPT N2 level)
✮ Learn basic Korean sentence structures
✮ Play Dousei Kareshi (~50 hours right there, what with my slow Japanese reading speed)
✮ Finishing playing Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution
✮ Buy Naruto -The Last- Movie DVD and then rewatch it
✮ Start applying for things……..
✮ Invite people over to drink the endless amounts of tea I have
✮ Make things with the alcohol and liquor stash I have (lol)
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my sunshine
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