Jeju City Hall Area
It's freezing here. Well not really, it's actually warmer here than back at home 52 vs. 37 ha ha. But we have snow on the mountain, kinda makes up for the cold. Last night I bundled myself up in knee high socks, skinny jeans, boots, undershirt, sweater, hat, scarf, jacket and mittens, finally warm enough to go outside. I had to walk 10-15 minutes to Kyndra's school to pick her up so that we may go to dinner. It was a little scary walking by myself at night, I feel like it gets dark early here, like around 5:30.
To walk to Kyndra's school I must walk by several tangerine groves. Tangerine's here are very small but delicious. I arrived at Kyndra's school early and the principal at Kyndra's school gave me a few to try while I was waiting. Kyndra had already warned me to never pay for a tangerine because people will give them to you for free all of the time. The teachers at Kyndra's school were very exited to meet me. All the teachers there besides Kyndra are Korean. Once she got off she showed me around her school, it is small and quaint, but very cute.
After leaving Kyndra's GnB, we headed down to City Hall area and met with Qianna, one of our new friends. The three of us stopped in a foreigner bar called The Bar, where we saw 2 other American/Canadians whatever & the Korean bartenders could speak English to us. We each had one drink and then proceeded on to Korean BBQ. The girls guy friends, Chris and Charlie were there waiting for us. I used to work in a Korean BBQ back home and I love Korean food, so I was dying to find out what it would be like here! Korean BBQ is served with several side dishes, to my surprise the side dishes that it is served with back home are the same that is served here! Fish cake, spicy pickled radish, spicy kale, kimchi, and vinegar onions. They also brought out bean paste and garlic. I love bean paste! The only thing is they do not bring any rice to the table and apparently the rice here has seaweed and other weird stuff in it. The BBQ was fantastic, it was not quite the same as back home but still amazing! And I had my first taste of real Korean Soju! It was quite tolerable although now I do have a slight headache. The feast only cost us about 11,000 wan. After dinner we all started the walk back to our own homes. Charlie stopped and got one of those dragon waffles I mentioned before. It turns out that they are filled with custard & very yummy. Charlie was the first to reach his home, then Chris and then Qi, finally me and Kyndra had a pretty far walk back to her place. I can't wait to get my own place next Monday, hopefully closer to City Hall area.
Today, I have my doctors appointment which consists of a full physical, blood work and a piss test. After all that I will probably be taken to my school to meet the staff and then Kyndra's brother Jordan, from back home, get's here today. We are going to go exploring while KK is at work. Tonight we are all thinking about going down to Seogwipo a city on the other side of the island to meet up with some other friends and to play poker. This should be interesting!!
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