It rained really heavily in Seoul 서울 today and I felt so tempted to get the 20,000원 rain boots I saw on http://dahong.co.kr.
From now onwards, I'll never say "I'm going to jog tomorrow" because everytime I say that, it will rain heavily for (nearly) the whole day the next day. And when it rains, I just don't feel like going out.
Back in Singapore, I could always find things to buy on Gmarket. But now that I'm in Korea, somehow, I just can't find anything else to buy :(
Today, I walked from the dormitory 기숙사 all the way to Sinchon Subway Station 신촌 지하철 역. It took me about 40 minutes but I walked as slowly as I could because I was supposed to meet Jeannie and the rest at 9pm but I left hostel around 7.30pm before it got dark. Even though it's summer in Korea now, because of the heavy downpour earlier in the day, the weather was really cooling at night; maybe the temperature was 22/23 degree Celsius or something?
I waited for them for 1 hour+. During my wait, I met Minqi, Prise, Sarah and Peiyan. And then, I met Yi Hui and she joined us. At long last, around 10pm+, everyone else arrived and we went to the place my buddy 용준오빠 brought us to the other day for 소주. We couldn't just order the 소주 alone and we had to order something else. Since we were not hungry, we just ordered a plate of fruits which cost 13,000원! But the lady gave us free instant noodles as well. We tried the strawberry soju 딸기 소주, grape soju 포도 소주 (it's better than the strawberry one and my Korean teacher 홍선생님's favourite) and apple soju 사과 소주. All in, it was 23,000원 which was split among the 6 of us.
Next stop: Dongdaemun 동대문 again but this time round, we went to the wholesale market which is only opened at night. Our main objective was to check out the shoes market but it wasn't opened when we were there at 1am. So we shopped around the wholesale market and ate 오뎅. Halfway, Jeannie and Xing Mei went off to join the rest of their KU friends at Migliore while Yi Hui and I stayed at the wholesale market to check out the place. The stuff there is definitely cheaper than those in Migliore, Doota, Hello A Pm, Good Morning City and Ewha and it's even cheaper if you buy the items in bulk.
The shoes market was open by the time Yi Hui and I walked back to the area around 4am. But it was quite a disappointment because nothing caught my eye except for a pair of rain boots which is practical here and you won't get stared at; but so not practical and way too weird back in Singapore. So all I bought was a belt for 10,000원.
At around 5am, we took a cab back to Yonsei so that was our super long day.
I'll edit this post once I get the pictures from Jeannie and Xing Mei. My D40's too heavy to bring around :(
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