It’s 2am right now, I’m sitting on the floor of my uncle’s house trying not to pass out. Today was a super busy day and unfortunately, it rushed past super quickly.
I’m writing from the direct train from hongkik to the airport. I’d say we totally chose the right place to stay in seoul because it was so central to everything. Also, the subway seat I’m sitting on is heated which is pretty awesome.
So this is pretty much the message I got from being here for the past 4 days. I’m probably wrong in thinking that but with SO many places to buy clothes, get face creams and makeup, and advertisements for plastic surgery, I really can’t help but feel like the culture puts a lot of pressure on its youth to look good.
I haven’t really kept up my daily activity posts only because we haven’t really done anything to write home about besides eating Korean bbq, Starcraft, and walking around the shopping districts in meyongdong and dongdemun.
So after much planning and anticipation the day finally came. It was the day we would go to the GOMTV station to watch people play Starcraft competitively at the GOM TV station.
Last night we got into seoul. It kind of annoys me that for a 6pm flight you must be there early therefore we left at 3pm and the entire traveling portion eats up the rest of your day.
So this required its own blog post because it was so amazing.
Aaron suggested going to a hot pot place he hasn’t been to but has heard a lot about it. The restaurant name is Hai Di Lao (海底捞) and up to this point I thought the restaurant service at Fogo De chao was the best I’ve ever had…I was SO wrong.
We didn’t really have much of an agenda for our last full day of Shanghai besides meeting up with my friends Aaron and Gulya from BLCU so we asked Dinghan where we could go to check out some worthwhile stuff. He suggested the Fabric Market where you can bargain for clothes and suits.
Ok I’ll admit, this is the part of the trip where blogging becomes a little challenging for me to keep up with. Not that I don’t like doing it but it takes time and effort to recap what we did that day and get the pictures cropped and uploaded.
Nothing really eventful happened yesterday. We caught our plane to Shanghai from Beijing and arrived around 5. Riding the subway to our hostel’s stop took FOREVER, probably a 1.5 hr train ride. I’m not sure if there’s just more stops here or that the trains are slower than in Beijing.
