Business in Busan

(me and Ryanne, that's ma girl)

Yo, I'm back with another post, this time one where I voluntarily went to explore Busan after sleeping all morning, but let me start from the beginning.

I woke up at about 7am and just surfed the net until 7:30, when I went down to go get breakfast. I was tired, but it was a free meal and Chef knows how to cook. I called my mom while waiting for breakfast, just because I knew she would worry like all mommies do. Yeah, I still call my mom mommy when speaking. I am not ashamed. I sat with a bunch of the other girls in the program and we had a really interesting conversation about multiculturalism and how mixed kids get the short end of the stick sometimes (we were all mixed, but some of us were more obvious than others). After breakfast, I went back upstairs, talked to my mumzy, and went back to sleep for about an hour and a half before getting up and preparing for my day in downtown Busan.

Today, one of us was meeting a boy for the first time, but we decided to roll out in force to make sure that the dude wasn't shady. He was kinda off, but overall he seemed nice. But we're still gonna chill with them the next time, we gotta take care of our own.

Anyway, we took the subway in Korea all by ourselves and it was our first time taking it, and it was successful. We got off at the right stop and waited for the dude, who will be called Manager Kim, to show up. When he did, we went to a mall and checked out the merchandise. It was a high-end mall, and I don't got that kinda money, so we only looked. There was one store that had Korean-style hip-hop clothes and they had pretty nice jackets. But I can't afford to drop $50 bucks on them jackets, nor do I want to. I'm gonna take my cheap but to the train stations and buy the $10 clothes. That stuff is cute too.

(Us walking. You can see Saya, Amaria, and Mina.)

Anyway, after that we were hungry, so we went out to eat at this great meat place and the nice old lady fried the meat for us. She was so nice. I was tired, so I was having trouble with my chopsticks, and she started putting meat on my plate for me and showed me the best food combos. I think she was happy because I kept saying it was delicious. It really was, though. Manager Kim didn't eat much, so we had to keep putting food on his plate. He was also nice enough to pay for our meal. Really, though. That was a hefty bill, approximately $65. Way to go, Manager Kim.

One thing about Manager Kim though, he had no sense of direction. I know he isn't originally from Busan (he's from Daejeon) but he could not follow a map and he could not re-trace his footsteps. He kept going places even though we told him it was the other way. We ended up showing him around Busan instead of the other way around (although he tried to be pretty stubborn about it, definitely a blood type B man). It was a bit annoying, but he was alright.

After that we went to the Korean National University to find the mythical cheap shopping near the area. I think we went to the wrong area, we only found cafes and a churro place. A churro place. Yea, it was there. and I got me a churro. Churros are for real. That churro was amazing. I'm going back.

Anyway, after that we went to another large mall, just to use the bathroom, before heading to a cafe called Caffe Pascucci and had drinks and, for a few of us, pastries. I had a hot chocolate and while it was good, I determined I'll buy my own at home from now on. $4.50 is way too much for a cup of hot cocoa. Naw bruh.

(From left to right: Saya, Amariah, Manager Kim, Mina, Ryanne, me)

After coffee at Pascucci's we went back to campus and were hella tired. Like really, I'm delirious right now, I kept tripping and dropping and spilling things, it's bad. I don't know how I typed this. Well, we're gonna practice our lesson plan demonstrations. I'm gonna stop typing. I added a few more pictures to the Photo Gallery. Check 'em out.

Cheers~!