My bad for not updating yesterday, but I came home super tired. Yesterday was orientation, so basically I sat through hours and hours of people telling me boring things that I could have read in a handbook. Mostly pointless if you ask me.
But in the afternoon, I got to meet this lady here.
Yes, that's Pia looking ridiculously nerdy and fobby. I barely recognized her at the subway stop.
I'm happy to see her! We ended up doing the very traditional Korean activity of watching a movie since it's raining outside and thus we didn't want to get wet. We watched The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was not as bad as I thought it was going to be in. In fact, it was good.
But you're not here to read about my movie reviews. So here's some facts about Korean movie theatres.
- Movie tickets are cheaper than in Korea, about 7,000W.
- Concessions are also way cheaper. A hot dog, a waffle (oh yeah, they have waffles.), and a large drink was only 8,500W. Er, that is cheap right? I never buy concessions at movies.
- In addition. seating is assigned. I know at Arclight and possibly other theatres they have assigned seating, but most don't. And in Korea, everything is assigned, which I like.
After a movie, we ate food. We had 보쌈, which is basically you get a bunch of pork and you eat it wrapped with fresh lettuce, boiled lettuce, kimchi, spicy seafood, and with any number of sauces. It's really good.
This is the building where we watched a movie. It's basically another giant department store, but with more emphasis on electronics. It's a funny name because when I think of techno, I usually think of the music, not technology.
To finish off the night, we had Starbucks coffee. Koreans are really green, btw. Here if you drink in the shop, they give you MUGS. Isn't that the most genius idea ever? How many cups do we waste by drinking in the store and then tossing them away.
So that's the end for now. Gonna go out and have dinner later so expect another update tomorrow!
