SKKU: Week 5, Day 5 (Myeong-dong, Dog Cafe)

So I went out and spent money today, so that means a post! Otherwise, my posts would probably just be things like "today I did my laundry and I also washed my pillowcase, but it shrunk, so it's just making my pillow extra fluffy right now." I went to go explore Myeong-dong (명동) with Joy, and consequentially all my money fell out of my pockets and into skin-care/makeup stores.

Started off the day with black bean noodle lunch. I've been wanting to try it ever since I watched "Castaway on the Moon."

What you see when you get out of the station.

To be honest, I get hopelessly lost.

Shy mascots that were advertising cat and dog cafes. Which we couldn't seem to find, and we weren't all that hungry, so we walked around.

Super tall ice cream cone for 2000원!

Found some brands.

And SKIN FOOD.

There's a lot of make-up stores here. I think we passed by around 4 different MISSHA stores. The people advertising their wares are pretty aggressive, as Joy found out with Nature Republic.

Joy and I wanted to watch Warm Bodies so we headed towards Lotte Cinema. We'll be walking through that sky walkway later.

There were machines to get our tickets, and it was definitely an ordeal. The only showing for Warm Bodies was at 2:50p, so when we looked at the time, it was 2:48p. It was fate, we had to try.

You were such a hassle to get.

After the movie, we walked along the skyway.

Taking advantage of the good lighting and view, though the view kind of got glared out.

There were resting places and a sky garden.

People told me to take pictures with cutouts of possibly famous Korean celebrities, so I did.

More cut outs, and cute hammock chairs.

Going down 6 flights of escalators.

Some of these displays are really fun.

This was outside the police department.

Though we finally were able to find the dog cafe! It was 8000원 to go in, and we got a drink. It was kind of pricey, but I'm sure the money goes to taking care of the dogs. Also the peach iced tea I got was very good.

A sheet with all the names of the dogs.

To be honest, the dogs didn't shower anyone with love really, aside from the people that were working there. I felt so slighted by all the dogs :c

I liked this dog the most.

She seemed tired of me though.

And laid down on my hand when I was petting her.

Super big!

This dog sat on Joy's lap.

Cute pug sitting funny while dogs were being groomed.

After the dog cafe, we wandered around again and when it was 6, tried to find a place to eat.

We ended up at this Japanese restaurant on the 2nd floor.

Joy made a comment on how I always take a picture of her while she is on her phone, but I think I pull my camera out when I'm idle.

Katsudon!

We split ways after this because Joy had a church thing and I still wanted to look around.

Found the cat cafe! But I was full.

I got lost to be honest, without Joy. It must've taken me around 30 minutes to find the subway station again.

Never let me back into Myeong-dong.

Some of the lights right outside of the west gate of SKKU.

What I bought; a lot of masks I wanted to try from MISSHA, and a M Covermaster Stick Concealer I've been wanting (same shade as my BB cream). I got Fresh Green Tea toner and emulsifier from Nature Republic (at first I wasn't going to, but I looked around and saw that a lot of the other toner/emulsifier sets at other places were more expensive than Nature Republic) and they gave me even more masks to try. And cute hand cream from TONYMOLY because my cuticles are very dry and cracked and I kept on bleeding throughout the week.

That's all! Tomorrow I have a date at an aquarium, so there'll be another post soon!

SKKU: Week 4, Day 0,1, 2, 3, & 4

Class days, so here's a lot of pictures of food to give you an idea on what meals they serve in the dorm. Our ID cards finally work so, it's been good!

---DAY 0 (aka Day 7 of Week 3)---

Lunch on Sunday. Fish egg fried rice, sweet little vienna sausage things, soup, and salad.

I tried this (700원) because I love peach flavored things, and it's really sweet and good.

Dinner; main dish was rice with sauce, bean sprouts, and etc. The fish bones are really uh...something...Makes you work for your food. The yellow scoop was like a mashed sweet potato mixed with vegetables, and there's soup as usual.

Went to a play with Joy afterwards. After the play, it was really rainy so we kind of went to the basement.

 Found water dispenser #1.

Eventually we texted a friend to come save us (thank you Vik forever) with his umbrella and he somehow brought Jason with a huge umbrella and another small umbrella.

Tried a sample for the first time. Gold Caviar Collagen Serum was nice. I've never really used serums so I can't really judge I guess. Looks at bag full of samples I still haven't used yet...

---DAY 1---

On Monday I had my first breakfast ever at SKKU. I usually only get lunch and dinner. Tuna sandwich rolls, some sweet dressing for the salad, sweet fried rice cakes in syrup, and cereal and milk. It was filling to me.

Got some 1000 원 blueberry milk that wasn't what I expected.

My wedding vows.

At this point I kind of skipped lunch to nap for 2.5 hours. After class, I went with Joy and Ryan to eat out.

Puppies along the way. 

I love hot dogs. 

Joy eventually giving up and eating the hotdog with a fork.

After this, Joy and I went to print out papers that we need to return to UT and as well as turn in to the international office here.

Joy got some kaya bread (sandwiches of butter and kaya) that she had to buy in a set with an Americano. She ended up giving the Americano to a random guy who seemed pretty startled.

---DAY 2---

Lunch of Tuesday I think? Bacon/pork fried rice, and some wonton things.

I feel happy when I complete a meal.

And today was the day to spend 700원 on ice cream.

Joy likes melona a lot. 

And then dinner. Some meat cubes with lotus again, soup, some vegetables, and rice.

---DAY 3---

Lunch on Wednesday which was some sort of meatloaf with BBQ sauce, fries with ketchup, and some porridge soup.

After class, I went to go meet with my group of exchange students from orientation!

A Red Bull truck pulled up and gave us free Red Bull and a Red Bull keychain. Some things just don't change I guess.

Shamelessly taken from Facebook. We had the pizza dakgalbi thing I had at my club meeting.

 Taro bubble tea afterwards.

It was cutely packaged. And good. I still prefer taro milk tea > taro milk.

---DAY 4--- 

Lunch on Thursday! Some noodle thing made with peanut or sesame oil, soup, rice, chicken thing, and a nice salad.

Dinner was good too, but I was eating it before I remembered to take a picture so, no picture. Fried chicken with rice, shampoo leaf in some sauce, and corn in mayo. Also a soup.

Ending Thursday and starting the weekend with some stuff I wanted to try from TONY MOLY. Luckily there is a TONY MOLY right next to Paris Baguette (though there are Paris Baguettes everywhere).

I shamelessly got a Petite Bunny Gloss Bar No. 5 (4900원) since it's too cute. Happy it turned out to be the Peach flavor since I kind of just picked at random. And then I wanted to try Cat Chu Wink Crazy Tint Stick which is said to change color overtime to match your skin. I got Crazy Yellow (#2) for 6800원 which is supposed to smell like oranges and turn orange over time? I don't know it seemed fun. I got 3 packages of BB cream samples. I still think MISSHA and FOODSKIN give out the most volume of samples, so if you're looking to test things out, just get stuff from there--

Sometimes I justify these beauty purchases by seeing how much they cost shipped to USA through resellers/Amazon haha. Well, I will try it tomorrow; trying to get used to using more makeup.