Updates

Hey y'all!
first off: update on roomie stuff. I decided she IS just thinking out loud a lot, and her "crying" noises are actually 1. just the way she talks/the tone of voice japanese/korean can have sometimes, 2. they are also usually actually "excited" noises, cos I recently found out she talks to boys online a lot, and get excited about meeting them and stuff.... She's fine :P

SECOND: I'm having a good time :D We went to the Lotte department store today off Euljiro 1-ga station, and went to the YG store! (the YG store is the only place that sells merchandise for YG entertainment music groups outside of the internet) However, we soon found that the so-called "YG store" is actually...literally only two shelves in an entire department store. I made pictures.
OH but first we ate at the wonderful amazing I-wish-they-had-places-like-these-in-America Food court!!

Left to right: Mandu (fried dumplings), Sausage and Galbi hot dog wrapped in a yummy batter, Sushi/rice plate

Honey and Spicy chicken, with white sweet potato! VERY GOOD

MORE WITH THE WOMEN. WHATS WITH THAT

Side A of YG Store

Side view and Side B of YG store -__-

 But it's still cool cos they were playing YG ENT. Music videos, so like, Gangnam Style, and Fantastic Baby :D AND OF COURSE I HAD TO BUY A BIGBANG HOODIE ^_^ Pics later, when I wear it...

Here's some other cool stuff we found at the mall and it's various levels:

What's that even supposed to mean?

OH I also had my first day of Volunteering! Me and some friends and a few other people from Ewha volunteered to help out at the Children's Center on campus right next to our dorms. We basically go in for an hour a week and talk to the kids in our assigned class in English, and basically play with them and are a sort of diversity exposure for them :) It was so fun, even though they thought my name was funny at first, and I had to struggle to communicate with the teachers there, since we both spoke so little of each other's languages, but we got along quite well :) I'm really looking forward to getting to know the kids more. They're about 4, the ones in my class. I really want to get better at Korean asap too (which I'm in the process of doing, through various means), so I can better understand what these adorable kids are trying to say to me, even if I can't necessarily always answer them in Korean.

Here's some pictures they drew for me:

"Saranghaeyo. Gamsahaeyo" = I love You, Thank you (Oh my God I love these kids :D)

Ummm...yes, so then I actually ended up meeting some more new friends today too! I love it when that happens! I just randomly went to a kitchen/lounge on the 2nd floor of the International Dorm, to throw away my ramen remains, and there were a couple girls in there watching tv, and I stayed and watched a little too (even though I was gonna go back downstairs and keep watching tv with Joanna) and we just started chatting, and turns out one of the girls is friends with/goes to the same school as some friends I'd met earlier :) So we all hung out later, and got soju at Warawara because we couldn't go to this interesting bar place to meet guys...But that whole bar is another story :P

ANYWAY Today was good. Cos we went to Noraebang after soju, and I'm growing to love that more and more each time :P

Love y'all!