Pictures!

I bought myself a camera for a pretty good price and what I love about korea is that you can BARGAIN! woohoo.. which means they also give you a lot of free stuff, or should I say extras, such as an tripod, 1GB memory card, zippered case for the camera, and plastic film cover to protect the LCD screen. Thus, I have pictures to post finally. So the following are from today... First, these are the two "unnees" (= "older sisers"), my cousins that I've been chilling with the past few days and until I go to the school...



I look very FOB here, BUT I assure no more pictures where I look like a fob:) It just so happened to turn out that way here.. sigh.. haha


One of my cousins works at a hak-gwan, a tutor/private learning center, where they specialize in music and science. Their main idea of education is to allow the kids to learn on their own by asking own questions and then find answers through exploration and experimentation. It's a very progressivist "child-centered" philosophy of education!





So here I am with my other cousin playing with the instruments.







And here we are in the science room in our lab coats pretending to be scientists!

It's funny because my two areas of studies are science and music..
They should hire me, I look good in their lab coats.. .haha


Then we went to the Shinsaegwe Shopping mall.. every thing there is so expensive so i didn't buy anything... except food:)


Wang Man Du (King Dumplings)
they were the size of my face!
















Soon Dae.... you don't want the English description. But it tastes good!









The outside of the mall... the malls here go vertical. They have 7 floors and a movie theatre on top, compared to malls in canada that are horizontal with usually one floor but many halls.
we watched Ocean's 13.. pretty fun.













Ok.. THIS is interesting! It's an electronic parking system.
You park your car in these "slots" and punch in a code that activates a door to shut and then it takes your car into one of it's many basements and stores it away. And when you need your car back, you punch your code back in and it brings the car to you from below!
They do this because the land in Korea is small and so this system maximizes parking space!






So for dinner we went to a Chinese fusion restaurant for some Jajangmeun. It's like korean style chinese food, all of which I thought was originally korean because they sell it in Korean restaurants in Toronto. However, they are not native Korean food but chinese food that Koreans have taken and changed it over time.















Me eating again... eating Jajangmeun.. noodles in blackbean sauce and seafood!