My Day in Snapshots

Min & Young at the Restaurant

My Korean friends haggled a fantastic price on my new toy: a Canon. Seoul's South gate- Namdaemoon is the place to go if you're on the market for a camera; camera stores lit up the streets like christmas bulbs. Price shop and know what you want.

I celebrated by snapping my very first photo.

... And my second-> South Gate.

After sight-seeing and dinner, which consisted of whole, rice-stuffed chickens in broth, and good conversation, we went our separate ways. Min only returned from Montreal 3 days ago so he was tired. My other friend had swing dancing practice for a University concert! He saw me off at the subway where I traveled alone to Itaewon: "Western Town."

I was hoping to find products like a good cleanser. Itaewon was disappointing. I arrived after dark and was admittedly a bit scared. The streets were dirty and teeming with American soldiers, blacks and Hispanics. I got an ice cream cone at McDonald's and was repulsed by the foreigners' attitudes, as a whole. I didn't hear one "comasamnida" (thank-you.)

I asked a Caucasian where to go for shampoo and she gave me vague directions about a 'hole in the wall, black-market' where you can find everything from back home. After walking for 20 minutes and finding nothing on the shadowed street, I journeyed back to the subway. I didn't take a single photo so I must have been uneasy!

My arrival back at SUWON Station, one hour later:

Look how beautiful Aekyung Department store is! I love my city.