So on the official time schedule, orientation week was Week 0, so I'll label the 2nd week of interning as Week 1. Anyway, HR invited us out to a cultural sort of field trip! I would blog about my work life but I'm not sure if that's something I can blog about, so if you had any questions in particular feel free to email. Sorry about the infrequent updates though, things have been super busy and also my laptop hard drive crashed so I'll have to see if I can salvage the pictures from the Hong Kong/Macau trip I took the week before the internship.
Also sorry for the lack of photo-editing and resizing in general since I don't have my software either.
Private bus at 8 AM.
It's also rainy season in Korea unfortunately.
Good news is that we were indoors for most of the time! We ended up taking an English tour around the area of Gwanghwamun Square. I was actually pretty happy because for all four months I've been in Korea, I haven't gone to this area at all.
First stop was (I think) the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History.
Our tour guide spoke fantastic English and we basically had a crash course in Korean history.
Interactive foot stepping to decide which video to play.
"Border between North and South Korea." (now in quotations because Glen mentioned it)
A three-wheeled car that was pretty cute.
Old Korean appliances.
And the first Korean manufactured car, down to the nuts and bolts.
Noah likes to take pictures of me taking pictures.
A replica of the President's office.
Ryohei being an appropriate President unlike Glen.
Vitamin Water!
A bunch of kpop bands. I enjoyed the typography.
There were interactive photo lantern things.
We couldn't think of a quote. Also there was a character limit.
Look how gloomy today was! This is King Sejong and he invented the Korean lettering system.
The palace I haven't been to yet.
(Fairly) new shoes.
We finally went inside to King Sejong Story (museum/exhibit) since it opened at 10:30 exactly. It's below ground level, under the statue.
The ceiling was really low
We had to take off our shoes. Also this throne was really low.
Thank you Joy, my photographer.
bad blurry photos because of low lighting time
An interactive area for kids.
We are all kids at heart.
A 2 meter long sword.
Another view of the palace.
Joy took this one and was really sad it was off-center haha.
We made an umbrella igloo.
Time to make some kimchi. We went to Kimchi World.
Getting ready to make 보쌈김치.
Immortalizing Glen's ㄱ/ㄴ.
My kimchi babies.
Then we made toppoki.
I am in a successful marriage with Windter.
Joy and Glen are this unhappy couple--
There were really beautiful old houses.
And hwer we are at Insadong! Glen and I looked at each other, because we had already been here, but we had like no idea where we were at that time.
But now we know what it's called! Finally!
We went into this bibimbap place in the plaza.
It was actually really good.
And I normally am pretty "meh" with bibimbap.
Afterwards, I went to the green tea place like I promised, regardless of where the group was going.
Pretty pricey.
They gave us so many straws.
And so many spoons.
We poured the sauce on the afterwards, but it hardened and added a much stronger flavor. This was so good I understand why it was around 8USD. 11/10 would live in this store.
I also really liked the waiters' uniforms.
At the front, there's a guy giving out samples. Apparently this place is super famous for their Jeju green tea, and they have a lot of products.
Would have this at my wedding.
Some of their choices.
Glen always a model.
We parted ways with the group to go shopping.
Cool sculptures while exploring.
We reached a bookstore!
Kyobo is a really big bookstore chain. I didn't take any photos, but it's absolutely huge.
Glen, Noah, and I parted ways with Joy, Windter, and Ryan at this point. We continued shopping, and I ended up buying a whole new outfit at UNIQLO.
Cute shirts at UNIQLO for 20,000KRW (but later I found them online on the US webstore for only 9.90USD for a promotion hehe)
Noah, Glen, and I found this street photo app thing.
We didn't know it would take 3 pictures so it went from Happy Smile -> Eh -> Tired. Also the touch screen on this application had like a dead spot right in the middle of the screen, so we couldn't type any of our email addresses (most of them contained G or T) to send the picture to us.
We eventually got it by SMS.
Cute statues in Insadong area.
We were all tired from spending so much money, so we went to a pasta and pizza place called Lebois. The price was pretty reasonable for the area, and the food was great.
If you buy three pasta plates, you get free unlimited pizza.
This isn't the honey pizza, but those pizza slices with honey on them were just amazing. So good.
Normal pasta.
Godly pasta. This was a pumpkin cream based pasta and it was so good.
Pork steak with spicy pasta sauce.
My camera doesn't know how to focus properly.
Until next time! Which is probably around the next HR field trip haha because working 9-hour shifts = no time to do anything. Everything is practically closed on the weekends.
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