Left: In the, we had special lecture about Korean Wave again! However, this time is about the movie industry.

Right: In the afternoon, we had caligraphy class. I haven’t touch the brush for more than 15 years! WOW! This sure makes me sound like I’m soooo old! ;p

We were given with lots of papers to practice before drawing it on the real fan. Once we got more comfortable, we drew on the template.

I tried to replicate whatever I had drawn on the template on the fan but ended up with something else. Quite satisfied with it. Consideing I haven’t do any caligraphy writing for more than a decade ;p

While waiting to get my fan stamped, I took photos with the handsomes and pretties

There you go!

Part 2 coming soon!

It’s been few days after the previous update, I have problem with my server, I can’t log in to upload photos. Luckily I have other server, so now I will just upload my photos there. Sigh…

Finally we got to wear the hanbok.

There’s a special lecture about Korea and was surprised that one of the Petronas Towers was built by Korean company. We were also shown how children pay respect to their parents and some of us went up to try it out.

Left: My buddy and I.
Right: We wore pink hanbok! I don’t have a photo of myself wearing it.

Group photo is a must!

More photos ;p

After the photo shot, we were served with Korean traditional desserts but I didn’t take the photos of them because my camera was not with me. That’s all for our morning activity. In the afternoon, we had Korean class.

These are my antibiotics, prescribed to me for the inflammation I developed from getting splinter under my foot after one week daily alcohol consumption. Was told to stop drinking until it fully healed as alcohol would make it worst. I got the splinter the morning before I headed to the airport.

I had to go to the clinic in the uni for dressing everyday. Good thing was that it’s FOC! Even with the medicine. If I’m in Australia, it would be hell of money. Blessing in disguise I guess…

Really cannot underestimate this little thing can actually cause quite a havoc to your life.

Busy weeks ahead! Orientation week, U-week, and Fringe. I’m involved in all of them. I’m crazy ;p Just want to keep myself occupy as much as possible.

It’s a Tuesday.

Left: we had our special lecture again. This time it’s about the history of Korean language and guess what it’s not taught by a Korean lecturer. Impressive!

Right: Then we had the very first presentation. We were required to come out with any topic related to culture for the presentation. We learnt about table manners of different countries and…

Left: Drinking culture of different countries.

Right: In the afternoon, we went for cooking class.

I teamed up with another Korean buddy instead of my original buddy. We switched because we stood at the wrong place and might as well just pair up with whoever opposite us. We cooked scallion, beef and seafood pancake, and rice cake soup. It was delicious but too bad we couldn’t finish them as we ate a lot during lunch, such a waste.

We were also served with dessert after that. I’m not sure what they’re called ;p

Then at night, we had a gathering at a drinking place, it’s set like a jail. I’m not sure the exact name pf the place but we referred it as Jail Bar *LOL*

Left: Seaweed soup.

Right: Huge pitcher of beer! I didn’t drink a single bit, no alcohol for me at all because of my wound that I developed during my stay here -.-” I was told that I must not drink anymore until it heals. Will tell you more about it in coming post.

Soju and beer made a perfect pair (to me it’s just alcphol, no difference). Instead of mixing them the usual way, we tried Jägerbomb. We suceed!

Eating and drinking, this is what Koreans normally do.

Before we ended the night, we had this thing going on. Basically, it will start at one end of the room to the other end of the room whereby each person will drink in one go, one after another. Since I didn’t drink alcohol, I drank my water when it’s my turn ;p

After that, we headed to karaoke and that’s when more drinking happened for some people and got kind of out of control. Oh well… That’s the problem when you are drunk.

On Sunday, most of our Korean buddies are busy with their own things, so we went out again on our own, this time to Seomyeon for shopping. It’s in the subway station, things are selling rather cheap there.

When we’re there, we couldn’t find the place we’ve been to previously instead ended up in this new place. Things were more expensive here.

It took us quite a long time to finally found the place we’re supposed to go. No photos of the place hehehe…

I bought a winter jacket for KRW79000, gosh… It’s expensive but what to do? Didn’t know Korean, hard to bargain. At least I managed to get it down from KRW85000 to KRW79000. It was hard to decide whether to buy or not. I didn’t even look at the jacket, it was hanging there with all the other jackets, I just simply took it out of the hanger and it looked good on me! Not many times in my life could find something that fit me just right. At the end, I committed to buy it. Oh well… At least one of thing in my shopping list was settled. This is my most expensive purchase in Korea.

After that, we decided to head back. Was starving. So we went to Popeyes which is located at the entrance of the uni.

I ordered a lunch set which cost me KRW5500. Don’t quite remember the exact burger I ordered, I think it was Lady Sandwich Set.

Then, for dinner, we went to a place near the uni. Some came back from there and told us it was good, so we went there.

No idea what’s this place is called ;p

Sorry to say that… It’s just not my type. It’s rather expensive too.

Wasn’t a very satisfied dinner but as long that can fill the stomach it’s good enough.

That’s the end of day 7 in Busan. Won’t have day 8 for update but will go straight to day 9 because I have no idea why I didn’t take any photo on that day. I guess nothing interesting happened *LOL*

The last part for this day. We went to Hae Dong Yong Gung Temple.

Had to walk up the hill but the hard work was worth it. We were greeted by amazing view!

Left: People threw coins to wish for good blessings.
Right: The temple building.

Breathtaking views!

Left: Must take photo of me with the view ;p
Right: They have many miniatures there. Very cute.

Left: You can bath the statue. I used to do this when I was young when I went to the temple with my grandmother.
Right: The prettiest girl in the program and I ;p

After the temple trip and waited for the bus for almost an hour, finally we’re back to the dormitory. We later joined the rest for dinner. Again, without our Korean buddies, simple went to a place around the uni for dinner.

Didn’t know what to order, we just asked the boss to recommend *LOL* The dish was quite sweet. There’s potato, carrot, chicken, and glass noodle. No idea what’s the actual name of the dish, most importantly it’s not bad ;p

Anyway, end of day 6.