Seoul Day 4 [30th July 2011] Missed Jeonju trip and Moving house

Woke up at 8am to prepare myself.
Same as the previous night, all types of noise could be heard. BUT it's ok! I am shifting out today! =)

Today was supposed to be the day that I will be visiting Jeonju (Just 3 hours bus ride away from Seoul). However, due to the Goshiwon issued, I have to give up my Jeonju trip in order to shift house since it's the only day that my senior is free.

I managed to get a ticket to Jeonju for free from Visit Korea Year website.

VisitKoreaYear is the website. They have 3 options for you. Jeonju, Gyeongju and Busan. Sad to say, Busan bus are always FULL of people. They only have 1 bus, but there are so many of them who apply for Busan bus.
For my Jeonju, there are like 72 applicants applying but I still went ahead to apply to try my luck. 10 days before your departure, if you are being selected, they will e-mail you your tickets for you to print it out.
I was super super excited and happy when I received the e-mail from them. I was 1 of the 24 or 48 successful applicants! But I have to say bye to my free ticket. If you are unable to make it, please do inform them at least 1 day beforehand so they are able to give your ticket to others who are still interested.

Therefore, I did last minute packing and throwing of rubbish. Do not want to return to the Goshiwon again so I left the room at 10am for breakfast.

Breakfast for the day is Paris Baguette! =) Delicious bread at 1800won. Had it at the store opposite Hoegi Station. Which is also one of those that had a cafe inside. Didn't want to get stuck inside the cafe and so I brought the bread with me and went roaming around the streets to look at the morning scene.

Went to look at the small streets where they sell the daily products like vegetables, fish, fruits and etc. It was a nice experience. So, true enough, the watermelon are really expensive in Korea. Watermelon is selling at 10 000won to 15 000won each. As well as the other tropical fruits that we usually eat them in Singapore.

Since I enjoy looking and walking around the "Market", time passes by very fast. Went back to Hoegi station at around 12pm to wait for my Senior.

Senior came with her Canada Classmates and we went up to the Goshiwon together. The boss was not in so we end up talking to his helper. Spend around 15minutes negotiating. At first the boss didn't want to refund a single cent to me because he mentioned that, "I had already gave you the room and turned others away. So I can't refund you the amount." The standard way of doing business, but the helper managed to help me get half the amount back from the boss. Really thank you very much.

And so the 3 of us, chat and drag the luggage all the way to the Goshitel.

Goshitel!

Went up to look for the boss. He came down and told us that I will be shifting to the apartment beside his house because the one without toilet is not available now.

Therefore, the 3 of us hop onto his Hyundai Santa (I suppose it's a Santa. It looks like a Santa but I didn't take a look properly.) 5 minutes ride and it was a 20mins walk to the school.

The boss's apartment place. My place for the next 2 days too.

Settle down with the auto door lock and main gate lock. It was a one-room-tel. (One room with toilet + personal kitchen and balcony.)
After everything, I went out with Senior and her friend. We decided to walk to school. On the way, both of them were like telling me, where's the nice things to see and eat around the area.

We went to Cheong Un Gwan (General Lecture Building) because they needed to use the toilet and draw money from the ATM. It was known as the only fully air-conditioned building. Student canteen, bank, stationery shop, book stores, snacks stores, post office, specs shop and electronic store are all located here. It's a good building!

Cheong Un Gwan

Since their teachers were not around, they decided to leave for Hongdae. While I stay back to roam around the school. Thus I decided to venture to IIE. It takes a lot of courage to go to IIE building because...

It's a steep slope to get up. Photo doesn't show that it's steep though. 

My main destination is the red board at the far end of the photo.

Okay. Halfway already. 

Standing at College of Human Ecology (I think! If not it should be Media Center.)

Finally reached my destination.

IIE building.

(More staircase coming for you!)

Took a walk around the building. There are still staffs working on a Saturday. They look at me and I look at them and smile and continue to take a tour. After which, I decided to head down to other places.

Looking down from IIE. Looks scary as it's quite steep.

Decided to leave the school and do my touring another day since I will be going to school Monday to Friday. 

School Main Gate. 

(My friends and I always got honked at when we cross the road here.)

Road towards school.

Away from the school.

Decided to head to Aritrum to look at my skincare which I never bring at all. Aritrum was having 15% off for everything. Since it was the last day of sale, I decided to purchase them. The two sales assistant was very nice and friendly. 1 of them is like mother while the other is like a sister. Spend like more than an hour or two inside the shop. Reason was after getting what I need, I stay inside to chat with the sales assistant. We had so much to chat. Lucky there wasn't much or anybody when I was there.

After chatting, they suddenly asked if I had eaten. Nope, I had not eaten anything except for the bread I had in the morning. Knowing that I'm from Singapore and alone, they introduced the Chinese restaurant which is just opposite Aritrum to have ZaJiangMian. I was really craving for it too. Agreed and she decided to bring me over.

ZaJiangMian @ 4000won

The Ajumma was very generous! The serving was big. 

The onion, prickles and kimchi was yummy. The ZaJiangMian was even more yummy! 

The Ajumma thought I didn't know how to eat a ZaJiangMian so after she served me, she decided to help me do everything. Like a mother helping a lost child. Therefore, she stirred it for me and telling me at the same time that stirring is important as it will become more tasty. After stirring them, she pick up the scissor and proceed to cut it for me. OMG. Really nice! 

Afterwhich, headed to Skinfood to take a look and purchased the nose pack. Olive Young to see the different types of things that they are having. 

Purchase of the day. 

Laneige Sensitive Refiner, Emulsion, Cleanser, Water Bank Essence, Water Sleeping Pack, Skinfood's nose pack and Aritrum's nail remover.

Need to buy my toiletries at the supermarket but they only sell the large ones. Like for example, toilet rolls are in 12s instead of 2s. Feeling depress, walk to the FamilyMart near the apartment to buy them instead. It should be more expensive than Supermarket but I have no choice since I was alone. So I purchased 1.5litres of Mineral Water, 1 packets of toilet rolls and the most cute stuff....

Hello Kitty T-money @4000won.

It was the 2nd last piece. I was deciding between the handphone chain and the card design. Decided to purchase the card as I still have not purchase my Korea handphone yet. The Ahjuma told me that this was the more popular choice too. 

T-money is like our ezlink card in Singapore. Basically, you just have to tap it onto the sensor when you are taking the bus and the subway. Only for Seoul and Gyeonggi-do area. 

Each ride is only 900won. If you travel more than 10km, it will be 1000won. Like for example, when I take the subway from Hoegi to Edae, it will costs me 1000won. 

The best part is transfer.

If you take a bus and then transfer to the subway, the first/last ride is free! So if you transfer less than 10km, your fare is only 900won. But please make sure you have to tap your card within 30mins after tapping out. If not your fare starts from the beginning again. 

Slowly walk back to the apartment with the shopping stuff on my hands. The main gate lock was fine. But my room's lock was faulty again. -____- Walk to the boss house to ask for help but he wasn't home. So the wife came over to save me. Pretty wife! The wife gave up on the door lock and got his husband to come back home. Spent near half an hour unlocking the door. After getting in, we switched on the air-con and the water starts to leak. What a bad day. The three of us laugh at the problems. 

So at night, the boss, the wife, the child and me. 4 of us. We chatted a lot. The wife's English was better than the boss. So our conversation was in half Korean and half English. When I was lost in speaking Korean, I will speak in English and the wife will have to do the translation work. They like Singapore and is planning to come over again. 

After sometime, I decided to ask about the internet issue when I see no cable in the room like the previous Goshiwon. He told me there's no internet but there's Wifi. However, the Wifi was very very very weak.

Decided to bath. The cold water feels like ice water and it was raining. So different from Singapore. So I thought of using the heater but the heater was not working. OMG! What a cold battle.

Try to skype with my friends but it was so failed. The connection was getting from bad to worse. 

So, switched off the laptop and did some revision and fall asleep.