Sorry everyone!EDITED MY BLOGSKIN ABIT cos i can upload better pictures of clearer quality!
Finally i had the time to upload pictures and write an entry today because i had an off day! previously the past week was filled with parties and going out to explore and skiing as well! so many things to do! i have been having spicy food for the past week and my throat hurts like crazy now.
made more friends this week. I love the japanese people! they are very cute and very polite! :P
Today i had menst cramp and was really feeling like shit. A really nice finland girl called Ulla went to ask around for pandols for me. i was like super touched! they are really nice people!
The lst day :)
My dearest mother actually cooked all my favourite dishes like the red tilipia and the fungus chicken. I had a great meal before leaving for the airport. Leaving the house was really hard because the feeling of carrying 2 suitcases and leaving for korea was really insecure. I didn't know anyone there and i knew i will miss home.
Thanks to all dears who came to the airport to send me off. Especially peggy, baby, jingting, mugmug, yuhui,wenhan and my dearest piggy family. I love you all!!!!! you all are the dearest comfort to me!
Special thanks to peg who gave me the bear and comforting letter. You know, i do place the bear and letter on my desk and do read it like almost everyday :) it really brightens my day to have you.
Dear linz, though you didn't come to send me off due to your flu, it was great to have your message :) i love you!i hope you are feeling much much better now!
Dearest jingting, mugmug, yuhui,wenhan .. I AM LIKE SO SURPRISED you all came! thanks for the nice gift of the whipped potato but it was consficated even before i could eat it :( Thanks so so much!
Leaving on a jet plane..a mixture of emotions fill in me.
Sadness, excitement, love..
Finally.. we left and let me intro you my new roommate :) here is gillian! she comes from NTU and NJC too!
On the plane, i felt even more confused because almost 99.9% are koreans and they kept speaking korean nonstop! it even haunts me when i fell asleep on the plane! i could hear them chanting korean in my dreams. The air stewardesses are pretty though. Oh yes, it was korean air!
After a backaching 6 hours of flight, i finally reached incheon airport at like 6 am in the morning. Korean time is 1 hour later than singapore time and it was 5 am for singapore. It was BURRRRRING freezing outside the airport ( like 1 degree or something) . We took a airport bus 602 to sinchon subway where YONSEI uni was nearby. The bus trip cost me around 20 + dollars.
And when i reached sinchon subway, we stood in the cold for at least 15 mins before a cab came to bring us to YONSEI. Me and gillian couldn't speak korean so the clever cab driver took us for a ride.. ( initial estimation 3000 won and became 6000 won in the end). I MUST SAY that korean cab drivers are scary!!!!! my suitcase was in the boot and the boot cannot be locked and the driver drove SOOOOOO fast and whenever we met a bump on the road, my heart skipped a beat cos my suitcase will like JUMP out of the boot. OMG!!! >.<
In the end, me and gillian decided to stop even before we reached international house(dorm) because the driver drove in circles. We carried the fatty 29 KG suitcase in the FUDGY 1 degree weather and walked up HILLS before we reached the I House. and to our horror and surprise, OUR horror of carrying the suitcase was not the end.. there was no elevator and since we are staying on the 2nd level, we had to DRAG the suitcase up! we ended becoming panting dogs!
Our dorms! :) it was abit squeezy but gillian loved it V much!
We met like 2 japanese girls ( one of them japanese korean).. chitose and momoko. Momoko japanese and korean was super good! she brought us out to do some groceries like buying noodles and washing powder and conversed in tons of korean which i don't understand.
That day was yonsei graduation day as well and everyone was carrying flowers..even the friends. Initally i thought it was Vday or something because EVERYONE was carrying flowers. Then saw those girls with the graduation suit!
The pads in the supermarket is super nice la! :) korean food is very expensive.. and they really have very limited choices. The maggi mee is like 99.9% all spicy.
AND THE BEST PART IS when we came out.. it was SNOWING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!oh my god, it was freaking pretty. soft soft snow on my face.. but koreans like seems to hate it and everyone was carrying umbrellas. First time seeing snow and i was super duper excited!
SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW!!!
The 2 beautiful japanese girls :) we had lunch at our school canteen. spagetti! tasted ok :)
