Class went fine today. We had a group photo at 11:45-in the middle of our 2nd half. So, all the Korean language learners trekked over to another building on campus and assembled on the steps outside. I would say there were 200-300 students gathered!
I met Katie at a subway station not too far from me. She found a place for FREE bike rentals along the Han River. We were given a suggested route/location to visit (Seoul Forest) and were off. However, we must have passed the turn off because after awhile we saw the sign for Seoul Forest pointing from the direction we had just come from. We decided we would just keep going. We stopped at the "J Bug" building-an J shaped 'building'. Its purpose is for families to get out and enjoy the river and just have a place to go to I guess. Sometimes there are concerts there at night. Then we biked back. The bike rental place took donations, so I gave 1,000W--how lucky to get free bikes for 2 hours!
Katie wanted to show me an area called
Garsosu-gil. She said it's where all the Koreans hangout now. It used to be Myeongdong, but it gets quite crowded and it is mostly foreigners there now. There are many coffee shops/bakeries and upscale boutiques. Everything was way out of my price range-I didn't even have to step into the stores to know that, but it was fun to window shop and look at beautiful clothing. We were getting hungry after our 2 hour bike ride so we wandered looking for food. The only problem with the area we picked is that there are mostly cafes, however we did find a mandu and handcut noodle restaurant and stopped in there for a bite. Then Katie wanted to take me to a "Tart" shop (essentially it was just pie; though I'm not sure of the technical differences between a tart and a pie). We had a hard time picking 2 but ended up going with a Green Tea Pie and Mango Yogurt pie. These were also pretty tasty (still favor Mom's pie!!) and beautiful to look at.
Back at my residence, I settled in a bit and finally got around to my homework and studying. I can't believe midterms are in 2 1/2 weeks!!!
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| Stopping for photo-op. A biker went by and he yelled out "cheeese!!!" Haha |
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| Katie and me (can't see our bikes, but at least the Ajushi took the picture!!) |
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| One of the many cafes in Garsosu-gil, but thought Mom would like this one! |
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| Handcut Noodle soup on left and mandu (dumplings) on right |
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| YUM! Green Tea Tart on left and Mango Yogurt Tart on right. SO GOOD! |
Thanks for the Gingko Cafe photo. The pinkies said to tell you that they loved your bike!!!
ReplyDeleteAs soon as you mentioned tarts & pies, I wondered to myself: "What's the difference?," and then you wrote the same thing. Cousin Mike (Aunt Ruth is reading this with me).
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