First real post in Korea

Hello world!! So I've been in Korea for a few days and have settled in a bit. At first things were pretty rough for me but they're slowly getting better, day by day. I have a really cute apartment. I made a video tour but youtube wont let me upload and it won't let me upload here so my video tour will have to wait.

Onto better things...
So yesterday I finally went out and had yummy food and some fun. Since I've gotten here I've been cooking for myself in my apartment because I haven't found the courage to eat by myself at a restaurant (all of the other foreign teachers at my school are on vacation so I haven't been able to meet/make any coworker friends). Luckily my friend Jill is in Korea and we were able to meet up!! We went to Myeongdong.

It was super great to see a familiar face. It was even better to be able to eat delicious food with a friend.

Some pictures of food we inhaled for ya:



Okay, so when we were actually eating I didn't take pictures but this is a picture of the exact same stuff Jill and I were eating from the same restaurant! We chose from a set menu. In our set we got Samgyupsal (Korean bacon), another kind of pork, and beef in addition to lots of yummy side dishes, onions, and mushrooms. Oh yeah, we also got a bottle of soju as a "service" but we didn't drink too much of it.

After a delicious dinner we decided to walk around and decided that having dessert was a really good idea. So we stopped by Lotte Department Store and went up and down looking for this one cute cafe like place that I went to last year. We eventually found it and got two beautiful and delectable desserts!



Super yum! Jill got the fruit one and I got the round one. Can you guess why I chose the round one? For those of you who know me, you know I love hearts (yeah, it's a bit silly, but everyone has their thing). If you look closely at the round cake you'll see that there are tiny little hearts on it.

One weird thing about Jill's cake was that there were two tiny little berries on it. We couldn't figure out what they were but when we tried them we came to the conclusion that they were tomatoes. Oh Korea... while tomatoes are indeed a fruit, they aren't really sweet.. and on a dessert? Nice try but no cigar.

After lovely dining we took it to the streets. Myeongdong is a fashion district and so there are tons of clothing stores and lots of street vendors selling their goods. One thing that's really great about Korea is that Koreans love to use English randomly. A lot of things don't make sense but if its in English, you've got yourself a winner.

This sign was the best of the evening.



People never believe me when I talk about how big Dunkin Donuts is here. Korea really loves Dunkin Donuts as you can see in the picture. Here it is in all of its glory.


Pretty sweet if you ask me. Didn't go in but I will definitely go sometime soon because yeah, that looks pretty sweet!

Well that's all for today so enjoy!!!