So last Friday was my 21st Birthday! WOO I'm 21! It was a little anticlimactic because I was already of age in Korea, but I can now legally purchase and consume alcohol in the United States! The morning of my birthday, though, I had to take care of a rather grueling and boring task: registering for my Alien Registration Card.
While getting to the Immigration Office was straightforward and easy, the actual registration process was not. You have to go up to the 3rd floor, get the appropriate form, take a number and wait. Easy, right? Well it would have been if I had known that you had to pay the registration fee in advance on the second floor. I think they also only accepted cash so, (you'll be proud to know) I exchanged currency entirely in Korean! I ended up having to do a lot of running around and waited maybe a total of an hour and a half. I was also suffering from a really bad Yellow Dust-induced cold and was thus very grumpy. After registration was complete, we had to go back down to the 2nd floor to provide fingerprints. Since there were maybe 5 of us in the group we were probably at the office a total of 4 hours. I have to go back there in a couple weeks to pick up the card as well. -_- After that I went back home to prepare for dinner with my close friend Ji Won and her sister Kyu Won. We went to a traditional Korean food restaurant and she treated me to a big feast. I don't remember what everything was called but it was delicious!
Then we went to a nearby bakery and she bought me a cake! They gave us candles and matches so we could light it there. The cake was so cute!
The next day I met up with a girl from Instagram! isn't that funny? She was so nice and so pretty, unfortunately it was a little hard for me to communicate at times, and there were sometimes awkward lulls in the conversation. We went to eat Shabu Shabu, which is where you cook vegetables and meat in broth on the table, then cook noodles in the broth, and then when there is a tiny bit left, you mix in an egg and rice. It was so good!
After that we went to a Caffé Bene and ate Strawberry Bingsu. It was really big so we couldn't finish it all.
After that I asked her if we could go to Artbox, which is a stationary /cosmetic /furniture /apparel /accessory store. As you can see, you can buy many things there...which is what I did. On the way a girl stopped and asked to take our picture and we had one taken on our phones too~
We got to Artbox and, yeah, well...I spent too much money...but how can you not in a place like this??
Look at all the cute, yet unnecessary crap I bought!
Needed? Maybe. Wanted? Yes.
Next time I will talk about our attempt at a night out in Hongdae and the Infinite concert!
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