Korea is ...not as i expected =P WHICH IS NOT A BAD THING

What i did in Korea: Well when we got there it was REALLY early so we wasted like two hours in the airport … so boring. Then we took an hour long bus that was incredibly cold to Hotel Koreana and left our bags there. Then we took a walk up the street towards Geokbugung I think (something like that) which is like some old-time palace and that was pretty cool. We checked in finally at 11 am, slept for an hour and then called Namjin. I met him at a subway stop and then we subway-ed, then taxi-ed to this rock climbing place and I thought that was really fun =) it’s good getting to know people you didn’t really know before =P (similar to Ivan) um then after that we went to COEX this humongous mall place and we tried to find MBC gaming to watch a starcraft game but to my great disappointment we couldn’t find it >__< BUT THAT”S OKAY! Um so then I called up Ryan and he met us at COEX and we had dinner! Then these party animals wanted to make me buy high heels and makeup so I could get into a bar…. I HOPE THEY WERE JOKING but in the end we did not do that so that is good. UM after that we went home. Next day I met Ryan at his area. And I was so late I felt so bad … but anyways we went to this like musical fountain with lights and everything it was really actually amazing to see and definitely enjoyable. Then we went to eat some real Korean food from like those stands. SO GOOD =D and I got like this icecream cone which was 30 cm high (the icecream was) and then it was totally too heavy for the cone so we had to like throw it out =( THEN I went home. The third day I just did some mass shopping to make up for it although I really did not buy very much. Overall it was an up and down kind of trip. Tim told me that he thought HK was more fun than Seoul… I’d have to say I also agree but I’m sure if I had more time I would learn how to love Seoul. The place itself I think is kind of plain. However I don’t understand how ALL THE GIRLS like ALMOST EVERY SINGLE ONE is so pretty… so I guess that made me feel very self conscious cause I am clearly a foreigner so sometimes I feel looked down on… don’t think Korean like Chinese people that much. I also did not see any celebrities or breaking =( However I think most Koreans are very helpful and nice to foreigners =P I talked to a few…1) buying subway ticket girl who was good at English helped me out =D 2) buying stuff at store the girl was talking to us in Korean for a bit until she realized we didn’t speak it haha but she was really nice and like talking about Canada and stuff 3) waiting for friend and then this guy passing out stuff (I think he was running for a position?) and I was like oh I don’t speak Korean and he’s like Oh? Where are you from? And I’m like Toronto and he’s like Oh I’ve been there! I liked it very much! Haha it was cute and when I talked to those nice Korean people it made me feel a little better about being a foreigner haha and dang Korean food in Korea is pretty darn good! =P Basically I probably arrived in Korea having really big expectations for it based on like… the Korean love? But now I’m glad I know that it’s not like CRAZY AMAZING although it’s still pretty cool =)