Woke up really late today around 11am. By the time i am done cleaning up, make up and dress up, it was already 1pm! I had an appointment with one of the 고시원 이모 which I have found through Facebook and I have planned to stay there if I were to successfully apply to study there in this coming December. I went and look the room and to make sure it was okay to stay!
The appointment was around 5pm so I went to Ewha again, this time, to take beautiful photos in the Ewha Women's university! It is a famous landmark in Ewha as the university is one of the top 10 university in Korea and the university building itself is a masterpiece!
Well, look at the pictures and you will know! Many tourist came with friends and took photos here. The weather was bright and sunny, it was a good day to take pictures in the open air.
There are a lot of people walking around, especially students of Ewha and also tourist. If you are a shy person, I think it would be hard to take pictures here because as soon as you start to pose, the eyes beside you will just start to peek or just stare, because they want to learn new poses too haha. My pictures might look like there are not many people but trust me, there are like a flock of tourist constantly walking pass you and photo-bombing your beautiful ootd shots.
For lunch, I stopped by a random restaurant at Ewha called 김네. I had ice cold noodle and one donkatsu kimbap (pork cutlet rice roll). It costed 6000won and 4000won. This is the first time I has cold noodles, the noodles are so so so chewy and slippery. You can just swallow without chewing. Chewing was hard because it was too chewy. On the other hand, the kimbap was delicious! There were pickled radish, cucumber, carrots, eggs, vegetables and pork cutlet in it. It was so big. The cold noodles came with side dishes like kimchi and yellow picked radish.
After lunch, I went to meet up with the 이모님. The 고시원 is located at 신촌. I went there around 5pm and went in to look for 이모님. She was already there, waiting for me! 이모님 couldn't speak any English, it was a bit hard to communicate at first but the more I talk to her in Korean, the more she can understand me.
Random street photos at Sinchon
I told her I am planning to go in December and she said normally they will have rooms available. And although it is winter that time, the room will be working warm because it is located in the heart of the building. And during summer, there is air conditioning too!
이모님 asked me to drop her a message when I am about to come so that I could secure a room. She handed me her phone so that I could add her kakaotalk and also add mine into her phone. But her kakaotalk was a bit different than mine, I didn't know how to search for her ID and how to use her phone to search my ID. She then asked her son to help. She said her son is a university student.
After a few bumps here and there, I finally added her. 이모님 praised and said my Korean was good (I'm sure it was just a nice gesture of her to say that haha), and asked me how did I learn. Well, obviously through dramas. She asked me what is my name, i said 효리 because i don't think she can pronounce my English name, then she said oh not 이효리? We have 이효리 in Korea! Yeah, that sexy goddess 여신. She then waved me goodbye and and took her business card.
After that, I went to a nearby coffee shop called Holly's coffee for some drinks. The weather was kinda hot so I decided to buy some ice beverage. I ordered the cold brew and sat down to relax. It was so nice to be able to spend time sitting in a cafe, sipping coffee, watching people walking around, and just look at everything moving on its own. it was a nice feeling.
I went to back the guesthouse and asked the receptionist to order me some black bean noodle 짜장면 for dinner. It tasted okay, not really delicious as I have had better ones. It costed 5000won, no delivery fee and it came within 5 mins. Talk about punctuality!
Ending my post with more selfies. *alert*
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