The past couple of weeks have been a bit of a whirlwind. With having 5 subjects, 2 jobs and 1/2 day clinic each week (where we are finally seeing real cases and clients!), it means there are very little hours left in a day for some down time. But after contracted the flu yesterday and being bed-ridden for the day, it gave me some time to finally post Day 4 of our trip...
Today was probably my favourite day from the trip - laughing like we have never before at the Trickeye Museum, shopping until the guilt finally settled in and eating until our stomachs were able to pop. All this happened at Hongdae - arguably one of the hippest place to be for students (and where all the student-friendly shopping prices are).
The Trickeye Museum was a place I said to my sister I needed to go to. I was very curious to how it worked after seeing many photos from the other people who have visited. Even now after knowing, it's still quite a wonder and hilarity looking at the photos. All creativity and silliness was let loose here and we left with such great memories and many photos to remember them by.
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There were a few university's around the area and we heard that Hongik University had a Saturday market so we decided to see what was happening there. There were several artists around the markets that were drawing portraits and I decided to give it a go. I picked an artist that was different to all the others and it definitely added to the day having a memorabilia that I could not get anywhere else.
We also visited Ewha Women's University before shopping for the rest of the afternoon. The entrance to the university looked so grand that I couldn't help thinking that UQ has nothing compared to this.
At night, after eating a whole box of Korean fried chicken (another must in Korea), we went to the Namdaemum Markets. It was supposedly a 24 hr market, but most of the shops except for the food stalls had already closed. There were a few souvenir shops that were still open so we took the opportunity to buy a few things for some friends back home. Despite still feeling quite full from the fried chicken, we thought we could not pass without eating the food there (and plus, we had made a promise to the lady when we walked past the first time that we would return). It was definitely not a fancy meal, but that was what we wanted. The plastic seats, sticky table cloths and old Korean pop songs blasting from a nearby stereo added to the local experience all the more. We were already in Korea, so why not pretend to be a local for the night?
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