Thai food and roomie

Today was a rather cool day. I woke up at the crack of dawn to bid on a DKNY Be Delicious perfume on ebay. It was not a random decision to buy it. When I was browsing through some department store a while back, I was sniffing perfumes (cuz I like to do that?) and they were selling that one for $60! I really liked the scent so I've been mulling for weeks about it and decided to get it. Anyways, I won it for $30 and after my momentary "I won it!" high, I decided to buckle down and learn the Sino-Korean and natural Korean numbers. Now, I know my numbers pretty well and don't how to ask "olmayeyo" (in english: how much?) over and over again when I'm at a store (so embarrassing. Then my roommate Yoon came right as I was about to leave. I thought that having a roommate would totally put a dent in my flow (did I just make up a new phrase? lol) but I think she'll actually get me to shape up. I'm somewhat messy on my own and now I have a reason not to be a slob. Only thing is she said she shores -__-

Oh well, I guess it's a good thing I brought a box of earplugs :) Anyways, she's a native Korean who's a freshman at KU majoring in Public Affairs and she seems really nice. Within the few minutes we met each other she invited me to her family's house next weekend for a homestay experience. Yay! Well, I left on a mini adventure to find a Thai restaurant. I've been craving Thai food like crazy the past couple of weeks (working at a good Thai restaurant 2 months before this trip definitely had an impact on what I crave) and after some research on the internet, I found this place called Yum Thai near Apujeong. The atmosphere was really nice and they had Thai ballads and traditional music playing. Also, the owner greeted me in Thai when I came in (when everyone came in in fact) and was surprised when I greeted him back in Thai. I guess they're used to a bunch of Koreans coming in all the time. Anyways, the food was okay, not the best...but I want to go back for some Som Tum and Pad Thai. The other table beside me ordered it and it looked absolutely scrumptious! I then went shopping for lotion, conditioner, and hairdye at the local Watsons across the street. I definitely want to change my hair color back to it's natural color but they didn't have it at Watsons so I stopped by the subway Etude House and got stuff there. These "face and beauty" stores (Skinfood, the Face Shop, Etude House, Tony Moly, Banila Co., etc.) all give LOADS of free samples even if you just buy one cheap thing, like a $2 bottle of nail polish. I like that type of marketing. I wish America would adopt it lol. Anyways, that was my day. I'm going back to Apujeong tomorrow to check out Rodeo Dr. and take lotsa pictures!

WWL!