1. Korean style dressing room (in a little vendors spot,...no room for a door and small room) ...pull a skirt over your head and wear it like a curtain.
2. Fake brand name shoes from China. they are really cheap and look identical.
3. walking through vendors
4. 5 and 6. a little river they made in Seoul...we weere lucky the sky was blue that day because the 2 days before it wasnt so blue from the smog.
7. a funny sign in the seoul subway, click on it and read it. they say old, not elderly
8. Myundong, seoul...downtown
9. goofy guys shirts at a vendor in seoul. some shirts have english words on them but make no sense at all.
10. the sting rae at the aquarium is smiling because he likes me!
11. poofy cheek fish. though he looked funny. it reminds me of the bad guy octupus man in pirats of the caribbean.
12. fish in a toilet at the aquarium.
13. fish andkari
14. fish and mong.
15. seven monkeys coffee...look familiar?
16. a guy making rice cake the traditional style, smashing it with wood.
17. Insadong... a little artsy part of seoul
18. random small alley street
19. Mong and a rat statue---he was born in the year of the rat
20-28. Me looking sweaty dying in the humidity carrying a heavy backpack. we were at the former king's palace, Gyeongbokung---its spread out and the grounds total area is about like 5 shasta college campuses. prettty big. The other pictures are from there as well. It was originally built in 1395 by a king, but then 80% of the palace was destroyed by a japanese invasion in 1592 and then reconstructed in the mid 1800's. Now they are restoring 40% of the buildings. A famous emperess was also murdered by ninja's in the picture 28 (the one ith the small round building surrounded by water, not the big one surrounded by water---thats where the king had his parties). The big red throne pic is the kings throne. The guys in red are the guards...they all wear fake beards hehe. they are very serious despite random people standing next to them and taking pics...i decided to look angle and serious like him.
29. Thats the view to masan bay from our window on a stormy day.
Seoul was fun, but too humid and way too many people. I looked it up---10,000,000 people live in the city and 25,000,000 in the metropolitan area. Too big! Really it was just a big city, but he kings palace was cool and we went to an aquarium. Next time we go we'll go to the big tower and look out and I'll take more pictures. I like it better down here in Masan/Changwon---I like the weather---not near as humid as seoul---it was worse than germany and houston!!! And we are near the ocean and there are less people and the moutains are closer. This weekend we're gonig to a creek where Mong and his friends used to go to a lot---he showed me pics, it looks like madrone, im excited!
4 comments:
I love the picture of you and the guards. You look so buff!!! All you need is a little red outfit and a fake bard and you could be a guard as well! I am glad you are enjoying your adventures abroad!!!
hola chica,
cool pics. I gotta say, you and guards are pretty serious looking. The "kari glare" really works along with them!! Fake beards, how funny. Do you know why they wear fake beards?
More humid than Houston! That is saying something!! I think New Orleans is worse than here as well.
Sounds like Seoul is as big and as overwhelming as Mexico City. It is so huge it is insane. I like visiting but always glad to leave.
We get our french exchange student in 2 weeks!!!
Keep having tons of fun!!
love,
ak
Yeah Vote them bums out!
OK Kari, you can come home now...I'm getting hungry.
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