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Saturday, Saturday

Birthday week was good. I mentioned going out on sunday with our 20s group for our multitude of birthdays. Tuesday my director bought me a cake, which was very surprising, and very cool.

Wednesday morning Stephanie got up and made me breakfast, and went to the store and bought me sharp cheddar cheese (hurrah!) and ranch dressing. That made me pretty excited. Later on in the day we went over to Myeong Dong so I could buy yarn and crochet needles. We went over to our friend Angel's house, where she cooked us both dinner, and we had a nice time of chatting. It was comfy sitting in her room. We just hung out, listened to music, I crocheted, we looked at books, and it was a fun time. Thank you Angel! Her home is a "semi-traditional" (as she calls it) Korean house, where she rents a small studio. Her neighborhood is so quiet, peaceful, and cute - I had to take a picture. Much different than our super-modern, noisy street!



Wednesday night we went to the big mall and watched "The Devil Wears Prada", one of our only choices for an English movie, with some friends from church. All I wanted for my birthday was to sit back and watch a movie and eat popcorn! We haven't had popcorn here, and I love popcorn, so this made me pretty excited.

Yesterday, Saturday, we decided to visit the National Folk Museum. On the way there we passed the U.S. Embassy (found it, Mom!), which had a bunch of Korean policemen outside, which made us wary and we walked by quietly. On a map I noticed the Polish Embassy was nearby as well, but I'm thinking that they probably don't have all sorts of policemen there. Educated guess.

The Folk Museum was really neat. The thing about museums and palaces here are that they are so very cheap! The museum yesterday cost 3,000Won, about 3 dollars. Palaces are usually only 1,000Won! It is very cool because they are always full of people. Most palaces and museums also have gardens, and so people pay to just come and hang out in a nice area. It's something you don't really see in the states.


On the walk to the Museum, this "the palace", which I guess is so great and prominent and important that it is referred to as "the palace", although there are many palaces around the city.


Part of a wall from a fortress? This is still on our walk to the Museum. Most of the wall was destroyed by the Japanese, but this is still intact and now in the middle of a road :)


At the Folk Museum. You go around this large obstacle to either side to enter the museum.


Fall colors.

Tracy demanded more videos. Here is one. I call it "Lazy Saturday". It's not very exciting, so you don't have to watch it.



A brand called millimeter/milligram makes some really cute stationary. We've only seen it at other retail outlets, but we spotted this incredibly cute, tiny store and had to go inside.

We ended our day by going over to our friend Brian's place to hang out with him, and Eddy and Marc. We went out to a great Italian restaurant and played Jenga, which was more fun than it sounds.

One great part about our day was figuring out how things were placed, geographically, in this part of town. We had been to some of these places before, but had only popped up out of the subway, gone to a place, then went back down in the subway. Now it seems like we know the neighborhood, with a few subway stops, where people live, where shops are, etc. It feels good to know a part of the city like this.

posted by Meghan @ 5:23 PM